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And lobster wasn't a fancy meal until early 20th century https://www.history.com/news/a-taste-of-lobster-history

"lobsters were routinely fed to prisoners, apprentices, slaves and children during the colonial era and beyond"

That was only true in coastal North America (and even there, the tales of disgust have probably also been exaggerated), not Europe. There are traces of it being appreciated going back to the Romans and Greeks. http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodlobster.html

And the well-to-do in colonial America were eating luxurious German Bologna

I call baloney ... isn't it originally from Italy?

Yup, what we call bologna is actually 'mortadella' but is from the city of Bologna.

It isn't really mortadella, so much as a cheaper-to-produce knock off.

Makes sense: lobsters are essentially insects, and eating insects, such as cockroaches is disgusting for most people. I still refuse to eat lobsters and shrimps for this exact reason: I'm not eating any insects, ever.

More insects for me!

Some human puts some species under some label.

You: I'm not eating anything under this label as it must be alike!

But in this case insects a lobsters are not even close in the tree of life. Maybe they indeed look alike a bit. Do you eat feces because it does look a bit like chocolate?

I'm guessing they avoid any arthropods.

Chocolate and feces isn't really a great analog.

If you have a shellfish allergy you are told to avoid eating insects. I know that is the case for crickets at least. So having them compared isn't that out there of an idea.

It’s not that far apart Lobsters and insects both belong to the invertebrate phylum Arthropoda.

If you want to include both spiders which are Chelicerata and grasshoppers which are Hexapoda that’s Arthropoda.

I guess cows are basically fish then. Both Chordates after all /s

Again it depends on the measuring stick. In terms of nutrition costs and fish are rather similar in comparison to say wheat.

I'll eat any insects. Well, not on the regular maybe, but I'd try them. I still want to try some grasshoppers and centipedes and whatnot, I wonder about the taste. I love salted shrimp, I remember seeing them in the water at the beach all the time, and people were literally walking there with a fine net and catching them. Not anymore though, waters are more polluted and they've been overfished I guess.

>>Eating insects...is disgusting for most people

The several billion people of the world would like to have a talk with you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy

All animals are essentially worms with some appendages here and there. Might want to avoid them too.

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