Hard truth

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.

That's fucked.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyestalk_ablation
- Wait until you hear what they do to pigs
how did they discover that? who's just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??
- Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham
- According to where I learned it, in high enough densities in concrete tanks, some shrimp would grind their own eyestalks off on the side of the tank. Some farmer put two and two together.
- Psychopaths
There is an indoor shrimp farm in Indiana. Really. They also claim they farm sustainably.

https://www.rdmshrimp.com/

Downside: they don't shell them or cut any bits off or anything. That's your job.
- Any bits but the eyes, apparently.
Fun fact

Not fun at all

ever eaten anything with red in it? (like the icing decorations on the pictured cake)

https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html

Also, ever eaten a shiny candy? Chances are is coated in confectioners glaze, which is a fancy word for shellac, which is an insect excretion.
Chocolate milk uses red algae as a stabilizer

https://smea.uw.edu/currents/theres-seaweed-in-your-milk-how-algae-drives-our-food-system/

And they're fucking delicious.

Then why don’t they call it bug fried rice? Checkmate Atheists

Are shrimps bugs, though?

Depends on the definition of bug. Entemological true bugs are a very specific class of insects, but the term bug was used to describe any arthropod for significantly longer than proper taxonomy has been around.

So if you're a biologist, no, if you're an anthropologist, yes.

Someone covered in brine shrimp would be more likely to feel covered in bugs than covered in marine crustaceans though.
- Entomological etymology.

So is lobsters and crabs.

Eating them anyway, though.

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.
- They taste fine to me. Are you sure you had them prepared by a competent chef? Sure they can taste awful, but they don't have to.
- Shrimp taste very similar to crawfish to me. I can't really tell the difference. I like both, though.

At least the message is delivered on a cake.

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

Small crickets maybe? I haven't had them in years but they're delicious with the right seasoning.
- They seemed to be a common enough ingredient in tacos for the short while I was in Mexico. They are pretty good.
- Sounds about right, I keep thinking Cockroaches, but I'd be too grossed out about those bastards so it was probably crickets lol
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.

Shrimps be bugs

Lobsters are commonly referred to as bugs as well.

There is no scientific definition of “bug”, but the folk definition seems to be any invertebrate, typically with more than four limbs.

The order Hemiptera would like a word with you.

Oh, you have no idea.

You can have them by the fistful like this, shell and all.

C R O N C H

They juicy bugs though, not as juicy as lobsters though

It's an ugly planet. A bug planet.

Remember the bug planet, Vegeta?

People and fish are more closely related than shrimp and insects

The taxonomy puts us right about the same, splitting after phylum. That being said, a shrimp looks a hell of a lot more like a silverfish than I do like a carp.

Well, depending on my general state of health.
- Typical chordate-centric arthropodophobia
People are fish and shrimp is bugs
- People, fish, shrimp, and bugs are worms.

蛯 (Japanese "Ebi") = prawn. 蛯 (Simple Chinese "Lao") = cricket.

It occurred to me while playing Helldivers that all the bugs we were killing would probably taste like crab after boiling.

puts on bib and grabs the shell crackers

Hmm. Deep rock too probably.

edit: ok fuck whoever posted that fake PNG
- Lol yeah I had to figure out that Google Image Search has an option to search for images with transparency. Otherwise you have so many out there that are questionable.
Steam crabs, don't boil them
Every time I look at the hive guards after killing them, I think how delicious they look.

I want to eat the hive guards. For democracy.

Delicious bugs.

Very similar to cock roaches. At least taste wise.

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

Eric?