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@PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago

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@PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago
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  • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      That’s fucked.

      • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyestalk_ablation

        • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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          Oh…geeze. This read like a note found in a Resident Evil game…

        • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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          Holy Jebus

        • @Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3•5 months ago

          Fucked up man. Glad I became vegan

      • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.

        It is fucked though.

        • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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          That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.

          • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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            There’s also hormones they think are removed when the stalk is removed.

            But really, no animal likes being injured. And they have no idea what else is going to get cut off.

            If some other thing that’s observing humans cuts the dominant arm off a man without any access to females, they’re going to suggest doing that limits how much they want to masturbate.

            When in reality they just can’t masturbate anymore.

            • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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              3•5 months ago

              Clearly the subject of the study is unfamiliar with “the stranger”

              • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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                Maybe that’s what the study is for

      • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        3•5 months ago

        Wait until you hear what they do to pigs

        • @MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
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          I’ll bite… what do they do to pigs?

          • @CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world
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            I know they burn off the tails over here, for starters. There’s probably more tho.

    • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      11•5 months ago

      how did they discover that? who’s just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??

      • @TastyWheat@lemmy.world
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        Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham

      • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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        8•5 months ago

        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.

        • beefbot
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          Jeebus christ. That’s… horrible

      • @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Psychopaths

    • dream_weasel
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      8•5 months ago

      SLPT: Poke out your girl’s eyeball to get some guaranteed hard lovin.

    • Flying Squid
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      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.

      • @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2•5 months ago

        Any bits but the eyes, apparently.

    • @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Fun fact

      Not fun at all

  • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    12•5 months ago

    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

    • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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      That’s pretty interesting.
      You never think about it, but most of everything is dyed. And that dye has to come from somewhere.

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      Chocolate milk uses red algae as a stabilizer

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

  • nifty
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    10•5 months ago

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

  • @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    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.

    • @Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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      3•5 months ago

      The order Hemiptera would like a word with you.

    • @AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
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      deleted by creator

      • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        Shrimp as well. It’s weird and for me the flavor isn’t good enough to justify eating weird crunchy sea bugs

        • @ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca
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          3•5 months ago

          Crunchy? You aren’t supposed to eat the shell

          • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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            Moist crunch, not hard crunch. Like grapes I guess. It’s gross.

      • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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        1•5 months ago

        Tons of people happily eat insects too. Chapulines are pretty good, escamoles are popular, silk worm is eaten in Korea and Thailand, there’s Witchetty grubs and honeypot ants…

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    6•5 months ago

    So is lobsters and crabs.

    Eating them anyway, though.

    • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • @LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
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        7•5 months ago

        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.

        • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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          2•5 months ago

          had them in the us, uk, hk, mexico, brazil, prawns to wee 'uns, and I thoroughly enjoy damn near the rest of the ocean’s bounty. something different about shrimp. they’aint right.

          • @LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
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            Fair enough. They do have a distinctive flavor.

        • Cethin
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          1•5 months ago

          I’ve had them so many different ways. Prepared well, they can be fine, but never good (in my opinion). Drenched in butter, the butter and seasoning can taste good and the shrimp is just there.

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

        • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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          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 :(

        • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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          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.

          • @RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
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            4•5 months ago

            Seems like I enjoy canned assholes. I never knew.

            • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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              2•5 months ago

              mmm… just like mom used to make

  • @Montagge@lemmy.zip
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  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    5•5 months ago

    It’s an ugly planet. A bug planet.

    • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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      1•5 months ago

      Remember the bug planet, Vegeta?

  • @Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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    5•5 months ago

    I’ve been saying that for years and I call them water bugs

  • @Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    5•5 months ago

    So is crab and molluscs

  • Davel23
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    And they’re fucking delicious.

  • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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    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

    • Flying Squid
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      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.

    • @MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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      Small crickets maybe? I haven’t had them in years but they’re delicious with the right seasoning.

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        • @MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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          Yeah the ones I had were in Mexico. So crunchy and good with salt, lime, and chili.

      • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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        Sounds about right, I keep thinking Cockroaches, but I’d be too grossed out about those bastards so it was probably crickets lol

  • @RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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    3•5 months ago

    Delicious bugs.

  • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    3•5 months ago

    What flavor is the cake?

    • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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      Chicken.

  • @Bodom666@lemmy.world
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    2•5 months ago

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

  • @NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
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    2•5 months ago

    Shrimps be bugs

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