# Would trilobite taste like crab ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618 "2015-09-26T19:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/1 "2015-09-26T19:41:49Z")
And would dinosaur taste like chicken ? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/2 "2015-09-26T20:04:53Z")
[A Statue For Father](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Statue_for_Father)-Isaac Asimov ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/3 "2015-09-26T20:07:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/4 "2015-09-26T20:20:14Z")
Since this is about food, let’s move it to Cafe Society.😉 Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/5 "2015-09-26T20:23:01Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 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. Horseshoe crabs have blue blood. Not sure what happens when you cook it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/6 "2015-09-26T20:31:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/7 "2015-09-26T20:55:42Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Dinosaurs. Who knows? Birds are dinosaurs, but chicken is different from ostrich is different from penguin. Please tell me you haven’t eaten a penguin. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/8 "2015-09-26T21:00:03Z")
Like spider ? > **[Fried spider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider)** > > Fried spider is a regional snack in Cambodia. In the Cambodian town of Skuon, Cheung Prey, Kampong Cham, the vending of fried spiders as a specialty snack is a popular attraction for tourists. Spiders are also available elsewhere in Cambodia – in Phnom Penh for instance – but Skuon, a market town on the highway 75 kilometres (47 mi) from the capital, is the centre of their popularity. The spiders are bred in holes in the ground in villages north of Skuon, or foraged for in nearby forestland, a Th... > [@](#): > > The taste has been described as bland, “rather like a cross between [chicken](http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:void(0)) and [cod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod)” …but horseshoe crab [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5O0lqKc7Ob4/maxresdefault.jpg "Bizarre Foods - Eating Pre-historical Horseshoe Crab in Thailand") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O0lqKc7Ob4) ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/9 "2015-09-26T21:06:51Z")
Internet says > [@](#): > > We have been warned never to eat horseshoe crab because eating the wrong organ of the horseshoe crab can make us ‘mabuk’ or get a high. That sounds like the sort of mission they give a _Vice_ journalist. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/10 "2015-09-26T21:26:42Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Please tell me you haven’t eaten a penguin. Only [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_(biscuit)) 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. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/11 "2015-09-26T21:57:50Z")
Did anyone else read the thread title as, “Would _tribble_ taste like crab?” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/12 "2015-09-26T22:25:13Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Did anyone else read the thread title as, “Would _tribble_ taste like crab?” What are you, a Klingon?!? :dubious: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/13 "2015-09-26T22:43:17Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Only [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_(biscuit)) 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. From _Smithsonian_, reporting on accounts of the [Frederick Cook and Shackleton expeditions:](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-different-kind-of-dinner-bell-in-the-antarctic-22002918/#Gdobudb8OYY9jXRh.99) > [@](#): > > like “a piece of beef, odiferous cod fish and a canvas-backed duck roasted together in a pot, with blood and cod-liver oil for sauce” Considering you are stuck in Antarctica, could do worse. But I liked the narration on the ways to lure the penguins in. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/14 "2015-09-27T02:12:03Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/15 "2015-09-27T02:39:56Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/16 "2015-09-27T02:53:41Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/17 "2015-09-27T04:36:30Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Please tell me you haven’t eaten a penguin. 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.” ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/18 "2015-09-27T04:39:40Z")
I expect dinosaur to taste gamey, especially the carnivores. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/19 "2015-09-27T04:53:29Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > From _Smithsonian_, reporting on accounts of the [Frederick Cook and Shackleton expeditions:](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-different-kind-of-dinner-bell-in-the-antarctic-22002918/#Gdobudb8OYY9jXRh.99) > > Considering you are stuck in Antarctica, could do worse. But I liked the narration on the ways to lure the penguins in. Stuck on a ship with a bunch of other men and only penguin to eat. All winter.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/20 "2015-09-27T05:52:01Z")
Am I the only one who quickly glanced at this and read it as "Would trilobite taste like **crap**? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618.md?page=2)