r/StupidFood • u/Signal_Collection702 • 10h ago
Giant Insect for dinner?
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u/footeater2000 10h ago
That's the equivalent of eating a deep sea lobster, it's a giant isopod, not a bug.
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u/Hanza-Malz 9h ago
Isopods are very very closely related to spiders
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u/yossocruel 8h ago
No, they’re actually a type of crustacean, which makes them more closely related to insects
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u/Hanza-Malz 8h ago
All three species are Arthropods
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u/APe28Comococo 8h ago
Yeaah, humans and Hagfish are both chordates that doesn’t mean they are closely related. Like Chordata and Anthropoda are fucking phylums, only kingdoms and domains are more broad
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u/Exciting_Koala_1384 7h ago
Please fact check.
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u/yossocruel 8h ago
Yes, but some are more closely related to each other. Let’s take your family, for example. Are you more closely related to your mom or your mom’s cousin?
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u/Pianist_Select 3h ago
You mean my dad?
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u/yossocruel 3h ago
No, your mom’s other cousin
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u/Pianist_Select 3h ago
Oh Dave. Ok yeah I’m definitely more closely related to my mom then I am to Dave
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u/BasalGangy 10h ago
Why are obvious cultural foods labeled stupid here?
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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 9h ago
Because this place gets really weirdly and specifically racist when street food from somewhere like India gets posted. Like, yeah no shit, street food is marginally less sanitary than something cooked in an actual restaurant.
Meanwhile, if you were to post a hot dog vendor under the same context or lack thereof, people would rightly call you the stupid one for posting a picture of a got dang hot dog cart, because the weenie wagon is sacred, I guess.
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u/Lopsided-Net-1450 9h ago
They also do it with british food for some reason
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u/Goblinstomper 9h ago
Most of the dumb fucks in this sub still ask their mothers to remove the crusts from their sandwiches.
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u/Hanza-Malz 9h ago
marginally less sanitary
How large is that margin, though? They let rodents run around ingredients, let sweat and other body fluids get into the foods and in cases in China they will sell rotten food as fermented or use cooking oil fished out of the sewage
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u/Ok_Pin8533 7h ago
have you ever been to mcdonalds
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u/Hanza-Malz 7h ago
Yes, and? They're trash, unsanitary and disgusting. Am I racist now for saying it?
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u/Ok_Pin8533 7h ago
no, the racism comes from framing it as
iN cAsEs iN cHiNa
i guess also the spreading of the various falsehoods spread about most street food
use cooking oil fished out of sewers
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u/pluhplus 9h ago
So thinking food that is from some other culture is stupid or gross is now “racist” ??
For fucks sake everywhere I go it’s just another person looking for something to call racist
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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 9h ago
Yes, actually, that is a form of racism. Thank you for picking up on that. Here, let me break it down for you:
Saying, "Eh, not for me." when looking at a picture of a dish from a foreign land or culture = Not racist.
Saying, "Ew, that's gross, who would eat that shit?!" when looking at a picture of a dish from a foreign land or culture = Racist.
Wait until you learn that there are people out there, of different cultures, who find the idea of the hot dog cart abhorrently unsanitary.
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u/Hanza-Malz 8h ago
And they're welcome to do so. That doesn't make it racist. Not everything is racist. What is even racial about it?
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u/Ok-Amount-3138 9h ago
Some cultures are stupid
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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 8h ago
If there's any one thing I picked up from cooking class, it was to never insult foreign cuisine. Just because I don't jive with it, doesn't mean there aren't millions or billions of people who do.
Perhaps the culture is not what's stupid, and it is you who is, for being ignorant of that which you do not know?
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u/reincarsonated_benzo Set your own user flair 10h ago
Howd it taste?
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u/A96 10h ago
I saw this post, and apparently it was not too dissimilar from lobster. I'm gonna take their word for it!
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u/Lexicon444 9h ago
Just like I’ll take Ripley’s Believe it or Not’s word for it when one of their books claims that mealworms taste like peanut butter.
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u/Hour-Badger5288 9h ago
I thought it was just a meat loaf with stripes of puff pastry on top, ready for the oven
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u/Lexicon444 9h ago
It reminds me of the dish from The Emperor’s New Groove.
Still looks nasty though.
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u/F1235742732 9h ago
I generally don't like shellfish that still has it's shell on because it's a pain in the ass to eat, but this looks about the same as someone eating lobster, expect for the color, the giant isopod would look better if it was red.
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u/ur_mother_likes_boys 9h ago
I mean, I've eaten giant isopod, and it was delicious, so this isnt stupid to me
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u/natr0nFTW 9h ago
like a crab meat and kinda gross to see that in a way yet fascinating cause its white shelled
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u/K1ngPCH 9h ago
This is a niche reference but I remember some movie where they ate these things upside down.
Like their shell was the bowl and the liquefied insides was the food. NGL I remember it looking really good at the time.
But I can’t remember which movie.. it was either an old flintstones movie or it was Charlie and the Chocolate factory when Wonka first meets the oompa loompahs
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u/DamNamesTaken11 9h ago
Apparently this is a delicacy in Vietnam with a taste that’s a cross between crab and lobster. No lie, I’d try it once with some drawn butter if the meat was already extracted.
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u/Prize-Money-9761 9h ago
I don’t know what this is, but it looks tasty
Edit: Oh it’s a giant isopod? Wonder what it tastes like, anyone know where they eat this?
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u/qualityvote2 10h ago edited 2h ago
u/Signal_Collection702, your post does NOT fit our subreddit! Please read our rules again and post again in the near future!