• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the 90s 80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.

    Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.

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    17 days ago

    I’ve eaten cooked bugs before, properly prepared, it’s pretty good

    Can’t remember what kind of bug it was specifically, but I do remember it was fried

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      17 days ago

      I’ve eaten multiple types of insects. All but one (giant water bug, tasted way too much like juniper, which I hate) have been decent. Ants are kind of citrusy because of the formic acid. Meal worms and the beetle larvae I had were kind of nutty. The crickets I had were the style they do in Oaxaca, Mexico, which is fried with chile and lime, so it’s basically just crunchy chili lime flavor.

      Incidentally, you can get cricket flour, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can either use it as a flour substitute (it also has a nutty flavor) or blend it with plant-based flours and use it in a standard baking recipe either way. And you won’t get little legs stuck in your teeth or anything.

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      17 days ago

      yes but there’s a distinction with lobsters, crabs and crawfish that shrimp do not posses:

      THEY TASTE GOOD.

      Shrimp taste like rubbery turds. there’s a reason the cocktail comes with a bucket of ketchup garbage.

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        17 days ago

        Shrimp taste very similar to crawfish to me. I can’t really tell the difference. I like both, though.

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          17 days ago

          shrimp kinda taste like dirt to me, but i like crab.
          However I did learn that my throat feeling like it was closing up after eating seafood ISNT normal and went to the doctor and now I’m not allowed to eat crab anymore :(

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          17 days ago

          crawfish have a flavor to them and aren’t as rubbery. closer to scallops to my tastebuds.

          shrimp taste like canned assholes even when they’re fresh.

          YMMV, that’s why it’s called taste.

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    16 days ago

    We’ll all have to adjust to eating land bugs soon enough. Those of us who enjoy ocean bugs have a small headstart.