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I'm reminded of an exchange from Futurama: Zoidberg: Goose liver? Fish eggs? Feh! Where's the goose? Where's the fish? Elzar: This is what rich people eat; th
by AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
I'm reminded of an exchange from Futurama:
Zoidberg: Goose liver? Fish eggs? Feh! Where's the goose? Where's the fish?
Elzar: This is what rich people eat; the garbage parts of the food.
- droithomme 8y ago> the garbage parts of the food Clever marketers have convinced people to pay top dollar for giant sea insects like lobster and crab, and then to mask the weird insect flavor (smells like lightly rotting tissue) by bathing them in melted butter. Marketers have also convinced people to pay top dollar for intrinsically worthless diamonds. Good marketers are extremely valuable.
- saagarjha 8y ago> giant sea insects like lobster and crab Technically, lobster and crab are crustaceans, not insects ;)
- droithomme 8y agoThe idea both are arthropods is certainly a fact, but the idea they are significantly different is contraindicated by numerous DNA studies at the present.
- phonypc 8y agoCrustaceans make up an entire subphylum, while insects are a class within a different subphylum. That would seem to indicate they are more differentiated than mammals and fish.
- droithomme 8y agoThings have changed. You might like to take a look at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08742 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08742.
- phonypc 8y agoNope. "Our results strongly support Pancrustacea" which is in line with the taxonomic hierarchy I was making reference to.
- Conjoiner 8y agothat's not technically, that's arbitrarily
- saagarjha 8y agoI mean, I'm using the commonly accepted taxonomical classification…
- phonypc 8y agoPeople blend lobster into butter just so they can make other things taste like delicious sea insects. And it works so well because butter carries flavors really well while being pretty mild itself. It's the last thing you'd use to mask flavors.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoYou're revealing your child-like palate.
- ceejayoz 8y agoYou should really buy better, fresher crab.
- droithomme 8y agoIt's not bad at all. However, one of my favorite crab dishes is 간장게장.
- somebadguy 8y agoDude you’re an autistic asshole. Fuck off
- homarp 8y agoif you're curious, it's https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/ganjang-gejang https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/ganjang-gejang or "Raw crabs marinated in soy sauce"
- bitwize 8y agoIn Boston it's still possible to buy lobster literally out of the back of a truck. Lobster was so plentiful off the coast of New England that it was historically a common man's food -- marketing elevated its status significantly.
- factsaresacred 8y agoNot in Europe. Lobster has always been an upper-class food, since the 16th - 17th century. Good article here: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/xy7vzw/lobsters-delicious-history-is-completely-insane https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/xy7vzw/lobsters-deli...
- caymanjim 8y agoFresh shellfish is delicious and doesn't require anything. I'm going to speculate that you didn't grow up near the ocean. I catch and cook (or in the case of clams, don't even cook) my own, and it's at its most delicious with nothing added.
- droithomme 8y agoI eat plenty of insects and recommend you do as well, you might learn something.
- selimthegrim 8y agoThai crab fried rice or crab soup beg to differ. I can’t defend lobster.
- prevedmedved 8y agoI've never in my life eaten crab or lobster with butter. Is this some retarded American thing?