And would dinosaur taste like chicken ?
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Trilobites might not have had a lot of meat on them. Their living-fossil relatives - horseshoe crabs - are cooked and eaten, but the only edible part is the roe/gonads. I’d bet on trilobites tasting more like oysters or sea urchins than crab meat. Probably salty, chemical-tasting, I reckon.
Dinosaurs. Who knows? Birds are dinosaurs, but chicken is different from ostrich is different from penguin.
Since this is about food, let’s move it to Cafe Society.
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Horseshoe crabs have blue blood. Not sure what happens when you cook it.
Trilobites were more closely related to spiders than crabs, so maybe they tasted like tarantula.
Ostrich tastes like beef (I’ve had it), and duck and goose don’t taste much like chicken either. Dinosaurs would no doubt have varied just as much. Tyrannosaurs may have tasted like vulture, and triceratops like turtle.
Please tell me you haven’t eaten a penguin.
Like spider ?
…but horseshoe crab
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That sounds like the sort of mission they give a Vice journalist.
Only this kind, but I have read accounts of people eating them in survival situations in the antarctic (Shackleton’s expedition, I think) - an intensely fishy, oily, meaty experience, I believe.
Did anyone else read the thread title as, “Would tribble taste like crab?”
What are you, a Klingon?!? :dubious: :eek:
From Smithsonian, reporting on accounts of the Frederick Cook and Shackleton expeditions:
Considering you are stuck in Antarctica, could do worse. But I liked the narration on the ways to lure the penguins in.
That was classic, thanks! Bagpipes have the same effect on me, too.
Much like our eyes evolved to only see a certain portion of the spectrum, could it be that our sense of taste only evolved to sense a ‘spectrum’ of taste? Which is why we say things “taste like something else.” Or do things taste like other things because they are all life forms made up of the same materials?
Actually, what we call taste is actually mostly smell. We only have five kinds of taste buds (sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and savory), so they can’t differentiate anything complex. Humans have about 400 genes coding for olfactory receptors, but mammals that rely more on odor have many more.
I’m totally picturing the Bugs Bunny cartoon where he’s escorting the little penguin home to Antarctica (only to find out the penguin was from Hoboken). In that short, the hungry shipwrecked guy advises Bugs that, “penguins is practically chickens.”
I expect dinosaur to taste gamey, especially the carnivores.
Stuck on a ship with a bunch of other men and only penguin to eat. All winter.:eek:
Am I the only one who quickly glanced at this and read it as "Would trilobite taste like crap?