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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026

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Don't knock bugs till you've tried them. I've had crickets and ants in mexico that were delicious, and some sort of beetle and what I'm pretty sure were deep fried silkworms in thailand that were incredible. Like a more meaty peanut.

Remember, shrimps is bugs.

You can de-vein a shrimp. There only so much bug shit I can contemplate eating voluntarily.

Well, uuuh, don't eat shrimps then. Also are you not at all concerned about auto-immune issues wrt chitin in the bug carapace?

Not even a little. I reject basically all influencer coded supplement chugging anti-vax associated info, you would need to show my a meta analysis and I would need to really trust it for me to be worried about chitin. I've been eating mushrooms my whole life for one, and I'm pretty sure they are 15% chitin by weight.

Do arthropods broadly taste like crustaceans?

I remember being very surprised a few years ago to be given alligator and find out it really does taste like chicken. Exactly like chicken, to the point where if you close your eyes you can’t tell the difference. But the line of descent is clearer on that case.

Not in my experience. I've eaten fire ants in the old country just because they got into the food, and I'm not gonna not eat it just because it bites back. They ironically tasted peppery.

The bugs in thailand tasted really nutty, but with even more structure and a kinda meaty, protein sensation. The ant eggs in mexico were rich and kinda fatty, like fish eggs but not fishy.

As for the crickets, I couldn't tell you. I think they were fried, but they were covered in so much salt and spice I just got a pleasant crunchy/oily sensation; like a fried nut but with legs.

I'm not surprised, considering chicken are basically dinosaurs.

Not just basically. Chickens are straight up dinosaurs, while crocodiles are only archosaurs. Peasants.

The lizards --> birds lineage is made very apparent by chickens and roadrunners.

Remember, shrimps is bugs.

I deliberately try to forget this

Remember it and expand! There is a whole kingdom of life you haven't crushed between your slavering jaws yet! Get out there and start eating!

I did enjoy deep fried crickets but realistically they were probably 60%+ fried batter by volume so it wasn't hard to like them lol

Ah yes, the "Was that the cricket or did a bit of spatula get in there by accident? I don't actually care" effect.

I prefer to remember that woodlice (which are ubiquitous in these parts) aren't insects, but are crustaceans. But I hear they don't taste any good.

Shrimp aren’t technically bugs. But yes a lot of conservatives “anti-bug people” eat a lot of things that seem like bugs.

Never asks a southerner chowing down on 2lbs of crawfish why he’s opposed to eating bugs.

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