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As a kid I hated eating insects. I still do - I don't understand how people can. However, my definition of insects includes crawfish, lobster, urchins etc. The
by 1996 8y ago
As a kid I hated eating insects. I still do - I don't understand how people can.
However, my definition of insects includes crawfish, lobster, urchins etc. They are fancy insects, but I do not see much difference between most seafood and bugs, except the size maybe.
It is socially acceptable to eat seafood. It wasn't always like that. New England had rules against feeding your employees lobster more than once a week!
Give it time, a generation or two, and people will eat bugs. After all, it's just food! What we used to say round my place: it it moves, kill it. If it's dead, cook it, and eat it.
- nkrisc 8y agoMost people don't think about it that way, but you're right. Insects and crustaceans are all arthropods and similar in many ways. Personally, I always imagined whoever the first person to eat a lobster was must have been very hungry indeed.
- 1996 8y agoBiology rules :-)
- Mindstormy 8y agoThe lobsters they were given were pretty old by the time they got to the consumer so they were more than likely rotten.
- Steko 8y agoRelevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/1268/ https://www.xkcd.com/1268/