Do xenomorphs, if prepared correctly, taste like shrimp?

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• radix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They take on a number of characteristics of the host species where they gestate. Probably depends heavily on that?

  Definitely acidic, though.

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  • dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Here I am thinking that my GERD symptoms are bad enough, meanwhile MFs on Lemmy are devising a way to make gumbo out of aliens with acid blood that burns through spaceship hulls

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  • AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Xenomorph ceviche?

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What about the facehuggers, would the be lobstery?

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hmmm. Would lobsters or king crabs be suitable hosts?

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ralph Wiggum: It tastes like burning!

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• AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My mind says it probably tastes like Living Rocks which have been described as tasting like iodine.

  I’d imagine you’d have to cook xenomorph a while and possibly add lots of baking soda to death with the acid, but other than that I’d assume it’d taste like salty metal.

  In fact, Fluoroantimonic Acid is one of the strongest acids ever—possibly worse than xenomorph blood—and it is basically just fluorine and antimony.

  Antimony is relatively close to iodine on the periodic table, so I will assert it’s close enough that xenomorphs tasting like those stony sea sponges is accurate lol

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you. No too bad then, maybe even a delicacy once people get used to it.

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    • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Considering people seem to correlate scarcity with value, yeah, big time.

      I also doubt people would be willing to hunt/farm xenomorphs if they couldn’t get paid exorbitantly.

      Oh and I’d imagine people who have that eccentric desire to be the top of the food chain would probably think it’s the best food ever. “You’re not a real man ™️ till you’ve eaten xenomorph meat” lol

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      Sidenote: I just had an idea for xenomorph farming:

      1. Find asteroid with enough gravity to keep the xenomorphs from yeeting themselves into space.
      2. Place egg.
      3. Add hosts.
      4. wait.
      5. Use robot to retrieve an egg and make sure it stays entirely sealed away with no chance of human contact.
      6. Throw another asteroid at the main one fast enough it liquifies both.
      7. Collect obliterated xenomorph parts and cook them as they enter collection to make sure they’re dead.
      8. sell to patrons for enough money to buy new asteroid and repeat the process.
      9. profit
      10. Eventually make a mistake and die a horrible death

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• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re basically extremely thick crab shells filled with acid and sinew so probably not.

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Boil it in caustic soda to neutralize the acid.

    Boil it for a long time to break down the sinew.

    Add a couple of potatoes and baby we got ourselves a stew.

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    • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This looks like a ripely though recipe

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I mean some of our current dishes are also quite complex and turn poison into something tasty.

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    • dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Then throw out the contents and eat the pot. It’s probably safer.

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• electronVolt@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The most delicious bite you will ever have, and the last bite you will ever take. Exit plan with a Creole zing!

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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d just like to respond with my opinion: hell fucking no. The movies make their insides look absolutely disgusting, like they’re all intestines and no meat. You couldn’t pay me enough to try a taste of any piece of one of those things.

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