# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/21 "2015-09-27T15:22:21Z")
I bet it was bland. I suspect there were fewer tasty chemicals in animals back then, and we’ve (collectively, as a biome) evolved more since. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/22 "2015-09-27T20:28:10Z")
I have eaten alligator tail, which explicitly did not taste like chicken. It did not taste gamy, either. The texture was somewhat like shrimp, but the flavor… well… more alligatory than anything else, really. Until we successfully clone one, we aren’t going to know what they tasted like, and even then, I imagine they’ll taste more like alligator than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/23 "2015-09-28T00:10:20Z")
They regularly have mammoth meat served at fund raisers, turns out frozen solid mammoths are not a rare find at all. Usually around ten grand plate, but I have seen cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/24 "2015-09-28T00:16:14Z")
Trilobite would taste like [surimi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surimi) – and **is,** for all anybody really knows. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/25 "2015-09-28T00:17:19Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Please tell me you haven’t eaten a penguin. Errmmm . . . no, not **eaten**. . . :o ---
**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 28, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/26 "2015-09-28T01:10:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Errmmm . . . no, not **eaten**. . . :o You’re Catholic? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/27 "2015-09-28T06:10:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Errmmm . . . no, not **eaten**. . . :o …you were a Young Tory… ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/28 "2015-09-28T06:19:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Errmmm . . . no, not **eaten**. . . :o You thought it was a midget nun, right?😃 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/29 "2015-09-28T07:19:42Z")
My guess would be shrimp. [This shrimp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops) ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/30 "2015-09-28T10:22:52Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I expect dinosaur to taste gamey, especially the carnivores. IMEE, the gamiest meats are those of strict herbivores subsisting on strong-flavored vegetation. The meat of winter-killed mountain hare (diet: tree bark) can be really gamey, whereas fox meat (diet: mountain hare) is mild and sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/31 "2015-09-28T10:41:31Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Please tell me you haven’t eaten a penguin. Who wouldn’t? Many British people have - probably more than half of us. [Here](http://www.mcvities.co.uk/products/penguins) ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618/32 "2015-09-28T16:23:03Z")
There’s a perfectly good stone crab pun in there somewhere that you all just ignored. :shaking my head: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trilobite-taste-like-crab/732618.md?page=1)