• hot_milky@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I actually can’t eat lobster either, the giant sea bugs creep me out. Shrimp I’ll eat but not if I have to remove the shells and such. Obviously people are different and my disgust sensitivity might be higher than normal. I grew up in a household that ate a lot of seafood so it’s not due to lack of trying.

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure everybody removes the shells from shrimp before eating. It’s called a carapace, and roaches have them too.

      Also, whether or not you specifically eat lobster or shrimp is only somewhat relevant. The point is that people in general eat those things. Lots of people. In fact, lobster is considered a delicacy.

      These are essentially insects, and they’ve been a popular part of human cuisine for a very long time. It is hypocritical. Any difference between the two are entirely mental.

        • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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          1 year ago

          “hypocritical” may not be the best word for it but the point that there isn’t much of a difference between some of the foods we already eat (shrimp, lobster, crayfish) and insects and that the primary block to eating insects is a mental one seems pretty inarguable. (it’s honestly also likely people do eat insects and just don’t know they are–they’re everywhere, unintentionally, in the foods we eat.)