Comment on Fck it, we ball

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they’re still in there!

  So are you saying we can eat woodlice like we eat crabs?

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean I’ve read that the giant marine isopod Bathynomus giganteus is popular in Vietnam, so probably – although there’s probably a good reason beyond scarcity that it’s not a widely popular delicacy. I might be concerned about bioaccumulated heavy metals in terrestrial ones, they’d be highly inefficient to prepare, and I’ve never heard of any culture that eats them. But I’m sure it’d be doable. Just to what end, you know?

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    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hopefully in one end and out the other.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hopefully. You don’t want one of those things to latch on

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Supposedly if you boil them they turn pink like shrimp.

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