I love shrimp and lobster, man.
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*arthropod
'anthropod' sounds like a furry's mp3-player.
I thought that was VLC
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They're not "considered" bugs. The are bugs. They're just aquatic bugs.
Our bodies may think they're similar enough. People with a seafood allergy are likely to have a reaction to bugs as well.
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shrimps is bugs
Good argument.
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I love shrimp and lobster, man.
If you fry them with enough butter and garlic, even bugs taste like food.
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They are crustaceans I think. They form the arthropod* group with insects but aren't insects themselves. Doesn't count.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Well the problem is that "bug" is not a scientific term right? Or even if it is, colloquially I think it could easily refer to either insects specifically or arthropods more generally.
Certainly a lot of people refer to spiders as bugs despite them not being insects.
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If the price of lobster espically got cheaper , I'd be a happy camper.The only reason it's expensive now is because the rich people of long ago thought it was rather trendy to eat the bugs that the poor people of New England were forced to eat.
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Well the problem is that "bug" is not a scientific term right? Or even if it is, colloquially I think it could easily refer to either insects specifically or arthropods more generally.
Certainly a lot of people refer to spiders as bugs despite them not being insects.
"Bug" is a scientific word that refers to members of the sub-order Heteroptera. See assassin bugs, leaf-footed bugs, etc.
But yeah language is fluid and most people call any old arthropod a bug.
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The only reason it's expensive now is because the rich people of long ago thought it was rather trendy to eat the bugs that the poor people of New England were forced to eat.
I've known this for a long time and it still pisses me off. Rich people ruin everything!
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They're not "considered" bugs. The are bugs. They're just aquatic bugs.
And I live by the sea, they are free if I catch them myself
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Well the problem is that "bug" is not a scientific term right? Or even if it is, colloquially I think it could easily refer to either insects specifically or arthropods more generally.
Certainly a lot of people refer to spiders as bugs despite them not being insects.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I would side with you if it wasn't for the parent thread using the word "insect". It is definitely some form of nit picking though on my part.
