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[truthspeaker]

Type: text + photo
Sender ID: truthspeaker
To: everyone
Subject: Hey quick question
Warnings: just food crimes

[you can't stop her now that she's figured out how to use her shellphone with video and photo capabilities, and that means... she's going to be causing problems on purpose (and not on purpose)]

What in Storms name are THESE on my food??? Are they BUGS? Are they actually putting bugs on my food??

(not actually bugs, just shrimp, she doesn't know that)

I've eaten some questionable food, but never.... BUGS.

[Are shrimps bugs???? discuss.]

Comments

[truthspeaker]

[GALE... FRIEND..... THE NICE ONE..... why is your husband a bitch (affectionate) :(]

Bugs usually have many legs. These have many legs and beady little eyes. I can't imagine the crunch or... anything about this, really. How in the world does it taste good?

[netherese]

[You get used to it, really. He means well. Maybe.]

They're shellfish, technically. The exterior has been removed, so the texture should be quite pleasant— the meat firm and just a bit sweet. You're not meant to eat the tails, mind you. You can pull the last bit of shell away if the legs bother you, as well.

[truthspeaker]

I'm still not sure I'd be able to stomach it. They look like something from my own world, and we wouldn't eat them, even cooked. I don't think they're... shellfish, though, the cremlings I mean. Probably the only thing no one eats, not even the horneaters and they eat just about anything.

[netherese]

They must be truly vile to be so widely shunned. Is there some reason for it, beyond how they look? Are they poisonous, perhaps?

[He's just curious!]

I assure you, shrimp are perfectly safe and are even considered a luxury at times, depending on where one is in the world, though I can certainly understand not being able to get past prior associations. A terrible shame, however. I think you would be pleasantly surprised.

[truthspeaker]

Some can be poisonous, but mainly they're scavengers. I don't particularly want to be eating a food that ate a rotting deadman, personally. It's used as an insult too, but that's not really the why you don't eat them. If they just ate the plants after a highstorm, perhaps it'd be fine.

[While she knows that eating animals is just eating the dead flesh of something, it's not rotting, and that's the turn off here.]

They can be eaten, but I wouldn't want to. Maybe as a last resort. ...but if you're sure these aren't... like crem, maybe.

[netherese]

That certainly does put things into perspective. I can't imagine being interested in eating something openly known to feed on the dead. Suddenly, your aversion to creatures that resemble them makes a great deal more sense.

That said, I can assure you that is not the case here. They're quite safe, and their own diet isn't nearly so unsettling.