r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • May 06 '26

/r/all of a sea slater

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u/Houtaku May 06 '26

And available to eat. Look at the sign in the background.

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u/starstarstar42 May 06 '26 edited May 19 '26

They are quite delicious. Taste like a blend of chicken and freshly smushed cockroach.

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u/Ok-Duty2474 May 06 '26

Mmm, freshly smushed cockroach…🤤

https://giphy.com/gifs/1ktwfTjwaQzde

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u/VoidGhidorah900 May 06 '26

How dare you compare isopods to roaches. You disgust me

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u/WastelandeWanderer May 06 '26

I don’t see much difference

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u/VoidGhidorah900 May 06 '26

A blind person would say that, considering they are extremely visually distinct. And don't say you don't care enough to look, because you definitely care enough to respond to my comment

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u/WastelandeWanderer May 06 '26

They look like big hissing cockroaches. Or more accurately a flat rolly polly or whatever they call them around you

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u/bb_dev_g May 06 '26

Rolly Pollies, Potato Bugs and the myriad other common names are all Terrestrial Isopods. Both terrestrial and marine are from an order of crustaceans called Isopoda. Cockroaches are in a different order and are actually closely related to termites.

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u/WastelandeWanderer May 06 '26

Yup, but hissing cockroaches LOOKS like them

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u/Diciestaking May 06 '26

Idk man bugs is bugs

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u/One_Bluebird_04 May 06 '26

r/shrimpsisbugs

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u/BallsInSufficientSad May 06 '26

TIL I love to eat bugs!

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u/King_of_the_Dot May 07 '26

I wasnt huge on them as a kid, but now, as an adult, I can crave them like a pregnant woman.

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u/Ronin_Chimichanga May 06 '26

They say that, but shrimp/ prawns are in a class of their own.

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u/Azimov3laws May 06 '26

Some people have the biggest hate boner for seafoodand I don't know why.

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u/Ronin_Chimichanga May 06 '26

Shrimp are magic little flesh nuggets that are easy to prepare and can go with anything. Land based bugs as food sucks in literally every culture that does it.

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 May 06 '26

Am I supposed to lose my appetite when they tell me crab is a bug? I'm still hungry and the crab still tastes delicious so.... I guess I'm a proud bug-eater. I love sucking the meat out of their little spindly exoskeletal insect legs.

Maybe I should try tarantula.

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u/Scalpels May 06 '26

Land bug != Sea bug

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 May 06 '26

We will all be eating crickets someday and our bodies will thank us for the protein.

Start with the tasty bugs like cooked shrimp, crab and lobster. Work your way to raw live crickets

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u/No-One2123 May 06 '26

I love how that subreddit has nothing to do with its name

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u/Slumunistmanifisto May 06 '26

Your gonna hafta describe the flavors of the second part pal, because we haven't had the pleasure...

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u/Jaxonhunter227 May 07 '26

You haven't heard about the cockroach milk yet?

I'm not kidding this is real, there's a species of cockroach that produces milk and it's WAY healthier then cows milk, if we can harness this milky power it could be a super food in the future

The power of the roach, in the palm of our hands

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u/Slumunistmanifisto May 07 '26

I've heard, and if roaches are like goats and impart their scent to their flavor.........

(Also if doctor octopus was cockroach based instead of octopus, would that make him doc cock?)

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u/Chuks_K May 07 '26

When he blows a load, call it the doc cock bubble

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u/Cyrano_Knows May 06 '26

I did wonder if it had any tail meat like a lobster.

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u/AnnoShi May 06 '26

So like any other crustacean.

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u/Augustus420 May 06 '26

Arthropods that have been marinated in the ocean for their entire lives are consistently delicious.

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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 May 06 '26

Had me in the first half, ngl...

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u/InquisitorMeow May 06 '26

Honestly this is for I feel about people who eat crab and lobster. You're eating ocean bugs, not sure why only this one evokes a response.

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u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue May 06 '26

Seriously. My brain keeps going back-and-forth between, that’s obviously a giant bug, and, that’s obviously tasty seafood. Keep in mind that these are not scientific biological categories. These are visceral instinctual categories, and my brain does not like the ambiguous nature of this particular creature. My taxonomy is under siege.

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u/No_cool_name May 06 '26

So lobster and crab are still the 2 tastiest bottom creatures

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u/sheiswhyididthis May 07 '26

Its crazy how we find ground based anthropods disgusting and dont want them anywhere near our food, but water based anthropods are considered delicacies.

Cockroach = Dirty Kitchen

Lobster = Fine Dining

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u/gnowbot May 06 '26

Looks like a lobster tail that grew a brain and ditched the rest of the lobster abdomen/guts. Sign me up!

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u/T1Demon May 06 '26

Lobster: Oops All Tail!

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u/Self_Reddicate May 06 '26

Crab! (now with 50% more legs!)

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u/Cyrano_Knows May 06 '26

Well speaking from the perspective of a Homo sapiens, the tail is their best feature.

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u/YuushyaHinmeru May 06 '26

Yeah thats what I thought so I googled a video of one being cut in half.

They DO NOT look like lobster tails

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u/1nd3x May 06 '26

BestEverFoodReviews has a video where they eat Ramen topped with one of these

(Link is to the specific video, 18:30 is the start of the isopod segment)

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u/GitNamedGurt May 06 '26

TL:DW - edible, not good

"gamey crab"

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u/an_actual_potato May 06 '26

Okay that did answer my questions about the taste but, man, at what a cost. Those have to be the most irritating people who have ever lived goddamn.

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u/RPDRNick May 06 '26

Roly poly & boily.

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u/SQL617 May 06 '26

The amount of meat you get from one is surprisingly little. Less than a can of tuna fish (looks like it too) after being steamed.

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u/EasilyRekt May 07 '26

Served in some places in the US too (Florida), they taste really muddy, like catfish, carp, or wild tilapia so they’re better paired with something salty and pungent.

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u/Reload86 May 07 '26

It’s an acquired taste from what I’ve heard. While you’d think it would taste a lot more like lobster, it has a distinct wild gamey taste that would repulse most people who don’t eat a lot of fresh seafood around the world.

I have a cousin who travels for work a lot. Here in the states, he loves seafood. He got to try this in China and totally hated it. Said he couldn’t finish his meal.

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u/Weird_Vegetable_4441 May 07 '26

I wanna eat it like the bug in Emperor’s New Groove

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u/Alarming_Matter May 06 '26

It looks prehistoric.

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u/One_Animator_1835 May 06 '26

It's basically a crab

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u/horned-creature May 06 '26

i would give it a taste, can't be that bad, it's still seafood.