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I- I want to try it...

>> No.10552034

>>10552012
they're not bad. just remember the real people that eat this stuff kinda have to because they ain't got shit else to eat.

>> No.10552037

>>10552034
What will you eat when we run out of arable land?

>> No.10552047

>>10552037
I'll be long gone before then

>> No.10552069

>>10552037
We can create more arable land instead of doing a biosphere apocalypse circlejerk.

>> No.10552077

>>10552069
Yeah but it looks crunchy and tasty

>> No.10552096

>>10552037
>we
you mean third worlders

>> No.10552112

>>10552096
You think we're immune to overpopulation? Whether it's Europe or America it will eventually happen. Then we'll have to eat insects.

>> No.10552120

>>10552112
dummy poo head

>> No.10552124

>>10552112
We would be immune to it if we stopped letting hordes of third-worlders in, yes.

>> No.10552139

>>10552124
based

>> No.10552172

>>10552034
that's true of pretty much all food desu

"hey guys! you know the animals that keep getting into our shit ditch and eating all the floaters? i just figured out that if you set them on fire you can eat them!" and thus was born the pork chop

"hey guys! check it out! i just ate the moldy grapes anyway and it made ugga's unibrow look sexy!" and thus was born wine

"hey guys! i was so fucking starving i decided to grind up grass seeds and boil them into a paste, and look, i'm not dead!", hello porridge

people are wired to like the food they grew up with. expensive food is expensive because people who have money grew up with it, cheap food is cheap because people without money grew up with it. your grandparents wouldn't take seabugs for free if they could avoid it and there were laws restricting how often they could be fed to prisoners before it was cruel and unusual punishment, now lobster is $15 a pound sold from dedicated tanks for maximum freshness. only the richest of the rich would neck a hen and enjoy that one meal of decadent sweet flesh rather than a few hundred eggs, now boneless thighs are 80-cent-a-pound baseline protein for people who can't even afford tofu.

give it fifty years, there'll be a shitthread on sichan where op shares a picture of how good a hairy white ghost from RadZone Alpha made beef look and then everyone else dunks on him for wanting to try something not even the Indians would touch.

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10552189

>>10552172

>> No.10552511

>>10552189
>oool story bro

>> No.10552523

>>10552012
They're delicious.

>> No.10552606

>>10552037
do you know how much food is thrown out each year before even hitting the market? it's a lot, and there's still plenty of arable and unused land

>>10552112
>You think we're immune to overpopulation?
the places with the highest population densities eat more meat and veggies than bugs. it's not indians and pakis eating bugs, it's east asians in jungles mostly

>> No.10552617

>>10552172
>people are wired to like the food they grew up with. expensive food is expensive because people who have money grew up with it, cheap food is cheap because people without money grew up with it.
it's more complicated than that but basically yes, there's a reason the vietnamese and cambodians eat snakes and grass eat pigs and oats. those are the things that are naturally occurring, and thus cheap.

a note on lobster, though, it's only expensive inland (i.e. for FLYOVERS). if you go to the coast, it's very easy to find all-you-can-eat lobster places. my best guess is that lobster is just difficult to transport and/or spoils quickly

>> No.10552812

>>10552617
it's pretty bad even at coastal supermarkets, have to go down to a fish market or find a lobster pot tourists haven't ruined. the same dudes who won't drive five minutes to walmart to pay $2 rather than $5 for milk are happy to pay $12 a pound for chick lobsters so they don't have to talk to an old guy who smells like fish and then probably get bitched out by their wife for penny-pinching on a ~special meal~.