Why we love crustaceans and fear insects (which are crustaceans)

so you're telling me, a cricket fried this rice?

"spiders are not insects, but in the war they will side with the insects." - Bill Bailey

Adam finally made a video on why shrimps is bugs

watching you repeatedly eat mealworms and grimacing isn't really how I imagined spending my afternoon.

the difference between insects and crustaceans is that based and limepilled Crustaceans have a calciferous shell which protects against all while foolish weak insects have flimsy chitinous shells like dumb a mushroom. (This post was made by the hard shelled crustacean alliance)

why I season my crustaceans, NOT my insects

I think another factor could be that some insects are often found in a lot of yucky environments (e.g. rotting carcasses, excrements, etc.) so the repulsion might have evolved to keep us safe from potentially contaminated food sources and/or pathogen vectors...

I wonder if scorpions look at lobsters like sailors look at sirens?

There is also an important psychological component: Speed Crustaceans underwater do not move as fast as arthropods on land do, that's why they're fascinating to look at in tanks, because you see the robotic movements of arthropods in slowed-down time. I'd wager something in our primal Cro-Magnon brains sees insects, being the flittering and skittering things that they are, as minor threats because of that speed; an insect or arachnid could swarm and skitter up your leg and bite you in places you don't want to be bit, flying bugs could land on all of your food, and can hide themselves away, in the blink of an eye. It's a minor threat, in the case of non-venomous bugs, but still one that probably evolutionarily came about because enough of our ape and caveman ancestors had problems like this. Water arthropods don't have this problem, not only are they just in another world, but the speed at which they do things is so, so slowed down compared to land arthropods that everything I typed up there they couldn't do in the time it would take to grab it; they're simply not a threat psychologically, however minor, as land bugs are.

Larger shrimp still creep me out when they still have their legs and faces.

I've tried ants, worms and crickets. The biggest issue I have is that insects bring it all, digestive track, head, eyes, etc. I only eat the meat of crab, shrimp or crawfish. The off-putting thing is that insects have very little meat to everything else ratio.

I can say that I don't fear crustaceans because I don't live near a big body of water, whereas insects are land-roaming and can enter my house, and sometimes these insects grow to the size of a baseball (though luckily, not where I live)

in London , there are 3 crustaceans - Kings crustacean, charing crustacean and St pan crustacean

a lot of bugs produce compounds that make them distasteful as well as the fact we didn't evolve to eat them primarily.

Adam didn't have to eat bugs for us, but he went the extra mile. This is why I love this channel

Some of us don't like eating any crustaceans, insect or not.

i think another main difference why people don't like the idea of eating bugs but will eat shellfish, is like you say they live in the water. not only does this make it feel detached from the "dry world" but we generally clean things in water. so these things have been living in water all their live, they're as clean as can be... whereas bugs crawl around in dirt all day.

I eat crab meat not guts. Bugs have very low meat to body mass, its mostly guts. Obvious differences

I think one of the major things that freak us out about most bugs is that they move quickly and skitteringly, the ones that don't do this (think pillbugs and ants) tend to be seen as more neutral. And since most aquatic crustaceans (that we think of as such, so not barnacles or tiny mites) are pretty large and are moving through water, they inherently move slower and at a steady pace, thus we don't get that feeling of them being unnerving.

"shrimps is bugs" -Adam Ragusea