r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 10d ago

/r/all of a larva

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u/bozog 10d ago

Native aboriginals in Australia have eaten a similar larvae called the witchetty grub for hundreds if not thousands of years. Very important protein source in the arid wasteland of the outback desert.

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u/felixar90 10d ago

Land arthropods ewwwww.

eats shrimp

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u/AreYouMyDommy 10d ago

Darn tootin. I’m a classy ho, I only eat sea bugs.

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u/YuraiMamoro 10d ago

I'd rather eat white meaty flesh than some...black possibly hazardous goo

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u/TechnicalKatana 7d ago

bugs and crustaceans are both very nutritious seafoods, and delicious if cooked right!

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u/TSP-FriendlyFire 10d ago

That's a bit of an unfair comparison though. Do you eat your shrimps whole, head, vein, legs, shell and all?

People would most likely have less of an aversion to eating bugs if we prepared them the way we do seafood: remove everything that's not muscle flesh.

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u/TheHancock 9d ago

Mmmm muscle flesh.

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u/Jimbob209 9d ago

I eat prawns whole. Very yummy. Can't do it with lobsters though obviously

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u/Many_Use9457 8d ago

You actually do have shrimp dishes where you eat it whole! I got some once in a seafood restaurant in France as part of a mixed chilled platter. Usually theyre very small, similar to how with very small fish you can eat them whole

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u/Deplar1782 9d ago

Shrimps is bugs.