Yrtik Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 This piece of news just freaked me out!!!The thing is that today we think that it's something crazy, it can easily become normal within 30 years... The Nordic Food Lab wants you to eat blood, insects and brains to save the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 This is and has been normal since almost the beginning of time. We may not have had Michelin-starred chefs making these things appetising, but we've been eating insects, blood and brains, or other internal organs, for quite some time now in various cultures and traditions worldwide. The faeces one, however, does baffle me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exchemist Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 This piece of news just freaked me out!!!The thing is that today we think that it's something crazy, it can easily become normal within 30 years... The Nordic Food Lab wants you to eat blood, insects and brains to save the worldWe've eaten blood and brains for centuries. I used to eat brains casserole at the Shell office canteen, in London, at the end of the 1970s. And I've eaten sheep brains in Jordan in the 1980s. And black pudding, boudin noir, etc. (i.e. blood sausage) are traditional in much of Europe. (Slices of fried black pudding are actually very good indeed with seared scallops.) Insects do not feature in European cuisine, it is true. Sammy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-wal Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 Shrimps are insects. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exchemist Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 Shrimps are insects. ;)Er, well, arthropods, certainly. But not insects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-wal Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 Oh I thought they were insects. Just googled it, they're not, they're crustaceans, like lobsters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigD Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 While it’s true that shrimp and, say, crickets are not too different, and both are arthropods (“jointed leg”), shrimp are decapod (10 legged) crustaceans, while cricket are insects. All insects are 6-legged. You can’t even get away with calling al arthropods “bugs”, since really picky biologists insist this is an informal name of an order of insects, Hemiptera, not all of them. Biological taxonomists group crustacians and insects and a 3rd class of 6-legged critters together into the pancrustacea clade, which separates them from critters like centipedes, but now I’m just reciting Wikipedia. Discussions like this make me glad I’m a vegetarian – its easier to distinguish a plant from an animal than a shrimp from a cricket. :) JMJones0424 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exchemist Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 While it’s true that shrimp and, say, crickets are not too different, and both are arthropods (“jointed leg”), shrimp are decapod (10 legged) crustaceans, while cricket are insects. All insects are 6-legged. You can’t even get away with calling al arthropods “bugs”, since really picky biologists insist this is an informal name of an order of insects, Hemiptera, not all of them. Biological taxonomists group crustacians and insects and a 3rd class of 6-legged critters together into the pancrustacea clade, which separates them from critters like centipedes, but now I’m just reciting Wikipedia. Discussions like this make me glad I’m a vegetarian – its easier to distinguish a plant from an animal than a shrimp from a cricket. :)Not just picky biologists. To anybody who is not American, a bug is a particular type of insect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahrquad Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 I have crawdads in the creek behind me about 50 feet away. They are certainly not insects, just diminutive arthropods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahrquad Posted January 9, 2017 Report Share Posted January 9, 2017 (edited) This piece of news just freaked me out!!!The thing is that today we think that it's something crazy, it can easily become normal within 30 years... The Nordic Food Lab wants you to eat blood, insects and brains to save the world Soylent Green is people!! Edited January 9, 2017 by fahrquad Alice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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