normaloctagon: How does sput feel about shrimp as a food

normaloctagon 06.19.23	to prawn or not to prawn that is the question
PotsyTater 06.19.23	I love shrimp
BitterJalapenoJr 06.19.23	Gets a massive thumbs up from me in all culinary formats.
Ryus 06.19.23	amazing and delicious seafood in general is a treasure
Hyperion1001 06.19.23	sea bugs
PotsyTater 06.19.23	One time tho I had fresh raw spot prawns that were so fresh that they were still twitching and I saw l it out the corner of my eye and thought I was tripping but then when I bit one it literally flexed in my mouth and it was one of the most traumatizing things that’s ever happened to me
Ryus 06.19.23	i will eat the bugs
CugnoBrasso 06.19.23	I remember loving seafood in my pre-veg days, still love the smell of it after years.
normaloctagon 06.19.23	pots that sounds like an actual nightmare ryus i went to a mexican restaurant recently that served grasshopper tacos how do you feel about that
Ryus 06.19.23	was it flavorful ive had cricket before and they had a nice nutty flavor, at least when roasted
normaloctagon 06.19.23	i am so glad people feel so passionately about shrimp i have the second half of this bag of frozen breaded tail off shrimp that i'm going to eat later after going to shrimp school in this thread
normaloctagon 06.19.23	@ryus lol i did NOT order it i did get one of their fish tacos tho and it was legit
ArsMoriendi 06.19.23	I LOVE shrimp The recipe I do most includes the ingredients: -Shrimp -Broccoli Rabe -Angel Hair Pasta (Cappellini) -Olive oil -Fresh garlic -White wine -Red pepper flakes -Salt (but duh) Often served with pecorino Romano, but that's only added after the cooking
anode 06.19.23	Shrimp is really good and healthy. Best in pasta I reckon
pizzamachine 06.19.23	Shrimp goes hard in the paint
Hyperion1001 06.19.23	i spent many weekends on the coast of South Carolina shrimping with my pops in my youth to I’ve had my fair share of shrimps and seafood over my life. Carolina low country boil is my favorite way to eat them. the problem is that seafood is just so damn expensive it’s hard for me to justify buying it over chicken. so unless it’s a really special occasion or I caught it myself I just don’t ever really eat it.
normaloctagon 06.19.23	would crush a shrimp alfredo pasta rn yeah i've never eaten a seafood boil in my life that's really cool hyperion
Kompys2000 06.19.23	I eat so much shrimp that multiple friends have made jokes about it in situations where I wasn't even eating any. Most seafood is awesome but shrimp is the best Pan seared with some oil and garlic >>>> all other non-breaded methods of prep >>> breaded > battered
Ryus 06.19.23	seafood boil is the shit
DavidYowi 06.19.23	Pretty good! Used to not like seafood but it’s growing on me. Was at a family gathering where one of my relatives grilled shrimp and it was fantastic. I also made tacos for everyone and everyone wanted shrimp on their tacos
heyadam 06.19.23	shrimp is goated
Hyperion1001 06.19.23	“i've never eaten a seafood boil in my life that's really cool hyperion” come visit edisto island and I’ll take you out and catch some fresh ones and my grandma will cook you the best shrimp you’ve ever had ; )
normaloctagon 06.19.23	hell yeah
RogueNine 06.19.23	One of the only water creatures worth eating.
Sniff 06.19.23	Had shrimp today. Owned. Rec: We Lost the Sea
porcupinetheater 06.19.23	Love shrimp, but I’m also just a seafood slut in general Oysters are my personal fave shellfish tho
Thalassic 06.19.23	Not much of a seafood fan myself, but one thing I always questioned; lots of people seem to go absolutely crazy over seafood yet many of those same people are disgusted at the thought of eating insects. Isn't it basically the same thing, except for the fact that one crawls or flies on land and the other swims around in the ocean?
Egarran 06.19.23	4/5 My fav pasta recipe is shrimp, mushrooms and spinach in chili coconut milk. Yes I hope terrestrial crustaceans taste as good.
ffs 06.19.23	eat so many shrimp i got iodine poisoning
CugnoBrasso 06.19.23	"Not much of a seafood fan myself" Weird, considering your nickname.
ffs 06.19.23	it is funny how normalised it is that you just fully dismember shellfish to eat it. imagine getting served chicken and you have to rip its head off then scoop out its digestive tract. yum. one of many things our future ancestors will rightly think us as barbarians for
Sinternet 06.19.23	shrimp rules check sintel - top ten most epic fish of all time
JohnnyoftheWell 06.19.23	6/10 would consume won't recommend prob better seasoned than in natural habitat next
Hyperion1001 06.19.23	i have a feeling meat consumption in general will be seen as barbaric in the future but for now I need gains so I will continue to consume.
chemicalmarriage 06.19.23	Yep you have to kill animals to eat them, its fucked up, and then those animals are eating other animals asshole shit and everything pretty cray cray
porcupinetheater 06.19.23	Gotta get all the seafood you can before it’s all extinct in 30 years Scarcity brain activated
Ryus 06.19.23	best seafood is mussels but they mostly all rule
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.19.23	Pretty mid seafood but it can hit good as fuck sometimes especially in the right recipe, ArsMoriendi has the right idea.
Sinternet 06.19.23	im big on scampi and scallops
porcupinetheater 06.19.23	Scallops are the shit Need to get me a flight to one of the coasts and hit up a raw bar
Kompys2000 06.19.23	"Yes I hope terrestrial crustaceans taste as good" We should legit work on breeding woodlice for food, I bet it'll slap
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.19.23	"Yep you have to kill animals to eat them, its fucked up, and then those animals are eating other animals asshole shit and everything pretty cray cray " Yeah officer this is the drugs guy right here
porcupinetheater 06.19.23	Yeah officer this is the can’t pick up on irony guy right here
Vinnymcscoop 06.19.23	Shrimp gud, especially salmon
Drifter 06.19.23	i really really enjoy it, 90% of the time when i get burritos and tacos now i get them with shrimp. its less heavy/more refreshing especially for lunch time and the texture is bomb and it doesnt overpower burritos like other meats do. all in all just super solid
Relinquished 06.19.23	allergic so nahhhh
normaloctagon 06.19.23	"Gotta get all the seafood you can before it’s all extinct in 30 years" yeah "Yep you have to kill animals to eat them, its fucked up, and then those animals are eating other animals asshole shit and everything pretty cray cray" i'm no vegan but honestly yeah pretty weird when you think about it
Spec 06.19.23	shrimp rules i’ll eat it in any form
PotsyTater 06.20.23	Ars what are boberts cooking habits like? Clearly you know what ur doing in the kitchen, do you have to feed Bob?
Colton 06.20.23	from a logistics standpoint it feels like a lot of time and effort just to gather little water insects from the ocean floor, probably not something we need to be doing
bellovddd 06.20.23	garlic in red sauce and we good. anything else we out.
ToSmokMuzyki 06.20.23	fucking gross
Winesburgohio 06.20.23	I'm pescatarian and don't think I could ever go full vege, seafood is just so good - and prawns might be the best of the lot! I also eat insects
Winesburgohio 06.20.23	Ate a lot of grasshopper in MX and snails/locusts in Kosovo
Colton 06.20.23	i think we should ban all meat consumption except chickens. it's the best tasting meat, it's healthy and it comes from a stupid animal nobody cares about
Ryus 06.20.23	it is literally impossible to think chicken is the best tasting meat
chemicalmarriage 06.20.23	Winesburg should be an exterminator. Show up and start eating the bugs people be like wow hes so passionate and frugal
Ryus 06.20.23	also chickens are an amazing animal. very bad colton comment!
MoM 06.20.23	Chickens are lovely. Colton has so much hate
ToSmokMuzyki 06.20.23	that was racist ryus
PotsyTater 06.20.23	Do we really have to unearth the trauma that is Colton’s opinions on shrimps and chickens again
ArsMoriendi 06.20.23	Chicken is great because it can absorb marinades and be spiced and breaded in all sorts of cool ways, but it's in no way the best tasting in and of itself TBH that'd be lamb
Kompys2000 06.20.23	Chicken is fine until you overcook it even 0.00001% and then it's like eating damp sawdust. Not a fan
ArsMoriendi 06.20.23	"Ars what are boberts cooking habits like? Clearly you know what ur doing in the kitchen, do you have to feed Bob?" He doesn't really cook much. He's more of an "order out a lot" kinda guy. He's a good resource for cool NYC restaurants though. I have fed him before lol
Ryus 06.20.23	what neighborhood yall live in
PotsyTater 06.20.23	That sounds about right
sonictheplumber 06.20.23	its just a fact that real men eat shrimp
ArsMoriendi 06.20.23	@Ryus: Inwood (technically Fort George, but no one knows what the fuck that is, so Inwood)
Ryus 06.20.23	oh shit yall are waaaayy up there. even tho i lived in manhattan from ages 0-18 i dont think ive ever been to that part of the city. actually jk ive been to the cloisters but thats it. u guy should move to the east village
ArsMoriendi 06.20.23	I can't afford the East Village, but it is probably top 3 Manhattan neighborhoods. Big fan of 2 gay bars there (Nowhere Bar and The Boiler Room) And yeah I'm less than a 15 min walk from The Cloisters and we have a cool long Graffiti Tunnel that's sorta famous too
ArsMoriendi 06.20.23	Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields apparently DJs at Nowhere Bar once a month, but I've never been to that night
Dedes 06.20.23	Best shrimp is tempura battered rock shrimp with the Japanese mayo 2nd best is a poppin scampi I just made some yesterday, didn't have white wine so I used chicken stock to make a base for the sauce and idc it still whipped. Just butter, black pepper, oregano, red pepper flakes, some angel hair, reggiano and some good ole scrimp. tite stuff.
Ryus 06.20.23	oh shit lol im like 90% sure ive been to nowhere bar before, it rings a bell but this was a while ago and i was very inebriated "I can't afford the East Village" and yea very understandable. i grew up in a rent controlled apartment #blessed
ArsMoriendi 06.20.23	I'd be careful going in randomly, I recently accidentally went on "leather night" lmao and it was something for sure
Ryus 06.20.23	lmao i was with some trusted bi/gay friends
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.20.23	Damn I miss living in NY so much but I also was fully broke for the year I lived there but I still managed to eat some amazing food and see some shows incl original lineup Cynic so~
bellovddd 06.20.23	i went to new york on my honeymoon. ate some decent pizza and watched a comedy show.
normaloctagon 06.20.23	dang shape that's sick
normaloctagon 06.20.23	did not end up eating the other half of the frozen shrimp for dinner, made salmon w/ my gf instead, but will dip back in to the bag tmro scout's honor
chemicalmarriage 06.20.23	You know jesus is gonna eat some shrimp when he comes back
bellovddd 06.20.23	i reckon he will be down for some popcorn shrimp
Colton 06.20.23	i like mine with caesar dressing
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.20.23	yeah it was like 2014? Especially now that both Seans are gone, having that opportunity will always be one of the best and strongest memories of my life. And just in general being in a non driving city where literally every band that came through I could be like yeah I'm just gonna spend 30$ on that and then take the subway it doesnt even matter if I have to work it'll take me 7 mins to get over there.
Purpl3Spartan 06.20.23	Shrimp slaps
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.20.23	Shrimp slapping is my fetish
SteakByrnes 06.20.23	shrimp owns
DoofDoof 06.20.23	Nothing worse than when it starts to turn and you get that hint of ammonia taste But even that’s not enough to put me off liking shrimp in general 🍤
SteakByrnes 06.20.23	🦐🍤🍤🍤🦐
Wildcardbitchesss 06.20.23	only time I’ve ever had shrimp is around Mardi Gras in the gumbo. Don’t think I like it enough to try it outside of that
Manatea 06.20.23	Eating shrimp is technically not kosher. That being said, I love me some good shrimp.
Sharenge 06.20.23	if you don't want your shrimps I'll take them
bighubbabuddha 06.20.23	i simp shrimp
IsisScript80 06.20.23	Vegematarian, so I'll see if there's anything like it in the Linda McCartney range... erm... nope. Okay then, that's a full pass.
Egarran 06.20.23	I would donate my corpse to a shrimp farm
PotsyTater 06.20.23	“ Wildcardbitchesss 06.20.23 [Report this Post] only time I’ve ever had shrimp is around Mardi Gras in the gumbo. Don’t think I like it enough to try it outside of that” Bitch wtf
PitchforkArms 06.20.23	Shrimp fucking rule.
Ryus 06.20.23	gumbo is goated tbf
DavidYowi 06.20.23	Fuck everyone’s popping off about shrimp nice
DominionMM1 06.20.23	there’s this little jaliscan food truck down the street from my bank that makes killer shrimp tacos. add some fresh lime juice and some salsa…oh yeah.
SomeCallMeTim 06.20.23	shrimps is bugs
zakalwe 06.20.23	I’ll have prawns, maybe cockles and that’s it.
SomeCallMeTim 06.20.23	ngl gumbo is kinda overrated? of all the rice dishes I've had gumbo is super far down on the list. just got back from NOLA a few weeks ago, fried oyster poboys are my new favorite thing
chemicalmarriage 06.20.23	hide shrimp in my beard and cargo pockets for movies
Ryus 06.20.23	gumbo goated muffaletta goated po boys goated ryus fat
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.20.23	Gumbo and Jumbalaya both rock. Po boys and shrimp tacos too. Shrimp tacos from a jamaican food truck sounds bomb af
PotsyTater 06.21.23	i dont understand people who see crustaceans the same way they see bugs. the thought of eating bugs makes my anus pucker like its not even close to the same to me. i wish i could stomach the idea of eating bugs cuz its good af for the environment but just no crustaceans on the other hand get tf inside me idc
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.21.23	I often wonder how much of that is just like, learned, re: bugs are yucky little creepy crawlies and crustaceans are food. Like for all I know bugs rly are just as delicious in every way, but I'm with you, I don't think I could ever make that leap, even shit like chocolate covered crickets and shit where they try to mask the bug-iness as much as possible, I'm out on that. But yeah I'll rip a crab open and suck the meat right out of his face right in front of his little crab wife.
Spec 06.21.23	Crustaceans absolutely remind me of bugs so I try not to think about it. I remember when I was in Nova Scotia last time and I ordered lobster because that’s obviously what I’m going to eat over there. I was just staring into it’s beady little eyes and then looking at the antennas like “what the fuck am I doing.”
Spec 06.21.23	I usually only ever eat lobster tails where I’m at, so seeing the whole thing on a plate in front of me was bizarre. Fucking delicious though.
ShapeOfJizzToCum 06.21.23	Lobsters are creepy as hell but taste delicious yes. So like if you had a shrink ray and you put it in reverse and used it on a beetle and then you just had these like giant chunks of beetle meat in front of you and didn't have to see the creepy beetle, wyd? Conundrum.
PotsyTater 06.21.23	“ I often wonder how much of that is just like, learned, re: bugs are yucky little creepy crawlies and crustaceans are food. Like for all I know bugs rly are just as delicious in every way, but I'm with you, I don't think I could ever make that leap, even shit like chocolate covered crickets and shit where they try to mask the bug-iness as much as possible, I'm out on that” I’d guess like 70% of it is a a culturally/socially enforced learned disgust, 20% is a biological/evolutionary disgust due to danger, and 10% is just the fact that they are hideous and behave creepily as fuck and are genuinely way grosser than crustaceans While i “get” the comparison of crustaceans and bugs there are a bunch of things that are inherently different between them in each of those categories. Yes, it is more socially and culturally acceptable to eat crustaceans where most of us are posting from and most crustaceans are of no realistic danger to most people. But as for that last 10 percent, things like the facts that most bugs are mushy and there is no perceivable meat to their limbs (obvious exceptions like scorpions that are way closer to crustaceans than anything else) and their guts are grosser colours and they seem more dirty because humans associate water with getting clean. Like on an anatomical level crustaceans are so simple, basically everything that isn’t the stomach is just nice clean white meat with no textural deviance because all of that shite is neatly removed and discarded. Bugs have all kinds of disgusting unavoidable question raisers going on everywhere. Most of them you can’t avoid but just eat whole and you’re in for a disgusting textural nightmare fest. And even with molluscs, which you eat whole aside from the shell, its just a nice consistent rubbery texture until you get to like oysters. And oysters are way harder to get into because the stomach texture is off putting at first.
Kompys2000 06.21.23	I feel we can use bugs to make meatless meat better. There's like a hundred million species of the fuckers one of em has to taste good ground into paste and added to the other stuff. Give me the cricket loaf idgaf
Kompys2000 06.21.23	Or like I said breed woodlice to be like the size of rabbits and bam nice juicy crustaceans probably easy as fuck to farm. Have em in a tank like red lobster
ArsMoriendi 06.21.23	I'll consider eating bugs when I see rich people willing to do it (guess what, they're not, but they'll tell the poor and middle class to)
PotsyTater 06.21.23	Crickets are VILE
Ryus 06.21.23	na they were tasty when i had em
SomeCallMeTim 06.21.23	Rich people eat caviar
naughtcturnal 06.21.23	shrimp are like tasty sea cockroaches
PotsyTater 06.21.23	Fuckin no ryus. I worked at a fish and reptile shop when I was a kid and was surrounded by crickets. I will not go into details but they are the most disgusting insects on the planet. You have no idea what you were eating. I’d literally rather eat ANYTHING than crickets.
Ryus 06.21.23	ok maybe but they tasted good
Colton 06.21.23	crickets are a better animal than chickens
Sharenge 06.21.23	lol that is so mean to crickets what did crickets ever do to you?
PotsyTater 06.21.23	Bruh dude bro man bruh Crickets You don’t even know
Ryus 06.21.23	would love to raise chickens in the future. wonderful creature
Sharenge 06.21.23	cluck-cluck-cluck baSQUAWK cockAdoodleDOOO
PotsyTater 06.21.23	I actually agree with Colton on that one, chickens are terrible animals. They are the worst bird (sound stupid as shit, can’t fly, super ugly), and provide the most boring entry level variant of both bird meat and bird eggs out there
chemicalmarriage 06.21.23	Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world
PotsyTater 06.21.23	Every time i look into the eyes of a chicken i see storminateacup
chemicalmarriage 06.21.23	Holy shit
ToSmokMuzyki 06.21.23	time for your ass kicking potty https://youtu.be/SFRI3byJgYA?t=37
Spec 06.21.23	I totally agree with the water and cleanliness thing. I’d rather eat something that I pulled out of the ocean than something I found crawling on the bathroom floor (silverfish flashbacks ugh).
Sharenge 06.21.23	isn't the ocean R.I.P. tho?
PotsyTater 06.21.23	@tosmok formative memories right there
CugnoBrasso 06.21.23	DIE OUT SILVERFISH
fogza 06.21.23	i like fish but i don't really mess with other types of seafood (except maybe calamari but that's very neutral anyway). prawns look and smell kinda gross tbh
fogza 06.21.23	btw despite being on the other side of the prawn debate to pots, hats off to an incredible bug eating explanation, makes me feel less guilty about not eating a live cricket during a team build year ago
PotsyTater 06.21.23	You’re the only person at that team build that I would ever kiss again
fogza 06.21.23	make smart decisions in the face of peer pressure, and stay kissable people
claygurnz 06.21.23	Shrimp, like the vast majority of seafood absolutely rules