/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>>14138990
am*rican detected

why yes I do eat dig dug jim duggar snugs

>>14138987
I'm gay

>>14138987
$7.99/lb for crab legs at my local giant, getting 5 pounds tomorrow. shit is gonna be dope.

>>14138990
rent free

Why rhe fuck are shellfish so fucking expensive. They used to feed this shit to prisoners, now it's like $12 a lb.

It's not even the greatest food in the world. Just dense in nutrients you don't usually get.

>>14139078
because it taste good

>>14139078
>now it's like $12 a lb.
Maybe if you're too far from the sea to get it fresh.

>>14138987
If land bugs tasted as good and had a non-gloopie texture I'd eat them too.

>>14139078
They eat the poop of grass fed fish. It's called organic and fair trade farming

>>14138987
Yeah, most land bugs are pretty garbage tier. I've made a point to try a lot of them travelling around Asia. If land bugs could grow big enough to get some meat on them they'd probably be better. You do get hints of crab from tarantula, crickets are pretty snackable, and ant roe is pretty creamy and delicious. Most other bugs taste like goopy dirt, or crunchy dirt.

>>14138987
crustaceans=! insects
thats like saying eating cows are like eating humans because theyre mammals

>>14139347
It's more like saying eating fish is like eating humans because they're chordates.

>>14138987
Sea bugs have more meat, dummy

>>14138987
sea bugs are big, you eat the meat, can take out the shit
land bugs are small, you eat everything,including the shit

but I agree, eating shrimp creaps me out, what if I eat shit?

crab on the other hand is alright

lobster is overrated

salmon is better and its not a bug

If I ever win the lottery I swear to god I'm moving to close the ocean and eat prawns, scallops and ahi tuna every fucking day. They are delicious but damn expensive.

>>14138987
>land bugs? ew! no way!
You will eat them, kiddo

>>14140780
Is that Cane's?
Their sauce is garbage.

>>14138987
It is because they are a great deal larger, usually.

>>14141079
That probably is a big part of it, yeah.
My main issue with eating the bugs is that they expect me to eat the whole fucking thing. I don't eat the whole lobster with intestines and shell and all and I don't want to do that with other bugs either.
I'm open to eating shelled and deveined landbugs if they're tasty.

>>14141110
Well the other part is that land bugs tend to carry all kinds of nasty shit in their system.
Like yea in some sad countries they eat bugs but where I live we don't eat them because they might cause disease or make people sick.
People have died from eating roaches, for example.
And there's that webm that goes around where some black kids are seen catching and eating mosquitos in some third world country. Think about how long their life span is.

>>14141119
I'm not an expert on bug diseases but I kind of assumed that people catch sickness from eating them raw and whole and if they were shelled, deveined, and cooking like you do with a prawn they wouldn't be nearly as risky.
I don't know. I guess we'd catch all sorts of ailments if we ate the seabugs in that way.

>>14141160
Do you know anything about insects? You're talking about deveining them like it's possible. You can't devein things like ants, roaches, etc.
You're being ridiculous.

>>14138987
Land bugs have very little meat and are often either bitter or sour. If they tasted like sea bugs we would eat them

>>14141037
Damn shes a fat fuck

>>14138987
You’d have to be pretty autistic to not understand the difference.
With crustaceans, you can actually remove the exoskeleton and internal organs. Not so with insects, which are also 14% fecal matter by dry weight.
Also you immediately out yourself as Jewish or Muslim when you make these posts.

>>14141235
No, dumdum, I am not saying ants can be deveined. I'm saying that's why I don't want to eat them.

>>14138987
rich in
>astaxanthin
>chondroitin
>iodine
>chitin
reminder to eat your shrimp shells

Who here eats locusts? I'd like to know what they're like

>>14138987
texture and flavor
next question

Both are gross

>>14141832
Why do you eat ass but not pussy?

>>14139115
wtf is "gloopie"

>>14141847
I eat pussy like it's candy, but I never have and never will eat ass. That's where gross poop comes from!

>it’s another eat the bugs goy because you eat crustaceans thread

>>14138987
well of course, my cretinous friend!

sea bugs - big and tasty
land bugs - less so

its called discernment you facetious shithead

>>14141782
>rich in
>chitin
Oh boy thanks, I was hoping to find a better way to get my daily dose of chitin.

>>14138987
I don't care if it's hypocritical, shrimp/lobster is amazing and I'll keep eating it and continue to not eat bugs. Fuck you.

Thought for food: maybe we can genetically engineer land bugs to be fuck huge and farm them so that they actually have a lot of meat on the bone like sea bugs. Now imagine this farm being breached, all the giant bugs escaping and killing everybody and eating US for lunch. That's a hollywood movie right there. Two great ideas for the price of one.

Ok, does anyone actually know what commonly eaten bugs taste like? I'm curious

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>>14138987
>sea "bugs"
have meat
taste good
>land bug
Nothing but puss and slime
Taste like shit

>>14142918
I'm really not curious about this at all. All this talk of "eat crickets" has just caused me to eat at McDonald's every day, which I haven't even eaten at McDonald's for years. I was surprised that the meat actually tastes like meat now, unlike years ago when it tasted like recycled reconstituted and dried toilet paper. I was expecting that in a pandemic it would be even WORSE. But somehow the opposite is true. I will continue to eat there indefinitely, for as long as the meat actually has fat coming out of it, unlike years ago when it was dry as fuck.

>>14142953
Im from Finland, McDonalds is actually not turning a profit in my country lol. Anyway like 5-10 years ago they had a big advertising campaign where they claimed their meat was 100% meat. After that their burgers tasted better, not sure if it was just placebo effect tho

>>14142914
The dont have efficient enough respiratory systems for that.

>>14142902

>>14142974
They actually do taste better IMO. But yeah, even if it's not doing well in Finalnd, McD is fast becoming a monopoly virtually everywhere. They turned their big lead over everyone else into Amazon-style domination of the market.

>>14138987
I don't eat the exoskeletons of sea bugs, and most land bugs are too small for it to be worth the effort of removing the exoskeletons.

>>14142978
Raise them in oxygen-enriched containments? Insects don't have emotion so you don't have the moral delimas

>>14142978
Maybe they can be on respirators all the time, Corona-style

>>14141041
No, retard. It's Zaxby's, you can see the logo on the cup.

>>14138987
Yes.

Why are shellfish okay but bugs aren't?

Easy

We can easily clean shellfish and enjoy the taste
Land Organisms have more complex diets and body structures
You tell me how to clear out a hissing cockroach's guts and I'll try cooking with it

You can't though, can you?
You just like to complain

You just like to start stupid threads and complain about things that you don't actually like caring about

Just the the fuck off my /ck/

>>14143004
Why would anyone build an oxygen rich containment on a scale to feed a futuristic society when they could just raise food that doesn't need a restructuring of the atmospheric composition to work?

>>14139005

>>14143057
True, mass use of soy protein would be more worth it. Hell, it's already happening in murica.
Also watch it, you'll summon him.

>>14138987
false equivalency.

no matter what you try to compare them to or how you package them I am not eating the land bugs.

sea bugs are fine.

>>14139078
where do you live? shellfish is difficult to keep fresh so I imagine most of the price is in transport

You find me land bugs that have worthwhile quantity of meat, actually taste good and can be reasonably and sanitarily farmed and im in.

>>14138987
Why are you being a contrary cunt and pretending there is no difference?

>IF DEY LUKE LIEK BUGS DEN DEY ARE BUGS
>HOE LEE CRAP DEYRE SEA BUGS

>>14143103
no customer gives a fuck how expensive it is to transport, they are paying for the meat not the shipping

>>14139347
Based retard
>>14139360
Based smartard

>>14143478
Doesn't matter if they give a fuck or not, transportation is part of the price of a product. A vendor who pays to get shellfish shipped away from a coast is going to have to recuperate that cost.

>>14143524
companies don't increase their price like that thinking their customer is logical and will think everytime they buy something that they care about how you made it. companies want their product cheaper so they actually have customers

>Land bugs
>So small, no removable flesh, have to eat the bugs whole
>Most of the nutrients/proteins are in the chitin, which is largely indigestible so you don't even get those nutrients
>Due to the food required, achieving a realistic price point for land bugs is actually really difficult, in many parts of the world where bugs are served they're often more expensive than normal meats for this reason
>Farming bugs effectively has not been perfected or even largely attempted
>Too small to clean or be selective with innards, have to eat the whole thing waste and all
>Individual preparation is labor intensive - making a skewer of lamb involves a few chunks of meat, skewering 30 bugs takes more time
>Natural aversion to them due to size and instincts

Meanwhile sea "bugs"

>Large enough to be cleaned effectively
>Large enough to have firm, meaty flesh that can be removed and eaten without the shell
>Shells can be used in stocks/sauces, adding versatility
>Range of bioavalible nutrients that don't require you to grind up the entire creature into a paste before consumption
>Cultural history of consumption, meaning regularly available recipes
>Farming/catching these creatures in the wild is well understood and common practice
>Large enough to not trigger a built in disgust response just from seeing it

I could go on, but there's literally no comparison here. Seafood is the chad choice, bugs are for everyone else.

>>14138987
Scrimp

>eating food that gobbles up filth for living

>>14143570
it is expensive to ship it and keep it fresh. that's the entire point. you need a product in the first place in order to begin to worry about making it cheaper. the only cheaper way to do it is frozen or canned

>>14138987
They taste completely different and the flesh has different textures.

>>14143776
Says the man who has never eaten cooked tarantula or scorpion.

>>14139078
Back in the day it was a shitty cheap food for fishermen on the coast, then when railways were a thing and rich people came to the coast they had never had shellfish, so they got charged a shitton, this carried over

>>14139078
Back in the day they could not be transported from the water without dying and spoiling, the advent of proper storage increased the market demand because fresh = delicious, not fresh = rancid pigshit, the wider range to deliver to also contributed.

Oysters are greats so are crawfish if cooked right crab is good but I prefer soft shell and am not a fan of crab legs shrimp are okay to me but that's because I grew up eating them the most. I've lived on gulf coast whole life and you don't like it good more for me.

>>14138987
The problem is that land bugs are too small to butcher the meat. If you eat a grasshopper, you're eating his organs and shit and carapace along with his meat.