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[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Wet bugs are very distantly related to earth bugs.

Won't you eat chicken just because pidgeons are disgusting? (yet also eaten sometimes)

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My uncle had an old silo with a broken roof and he and my dad would sit at the bottom and shoot the pigeons for dinner. I still remember my grandmother sitting outside the house plucking feathers all day. The 90s were fun in my family.

[–] SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Pigeons literally exist in the us because they were imported for food iirc

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For a foreigner: shouldn't it be "distantly related" instead?

[–] PreachHard@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah that or distant relatives

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I'm no native speaker either

[–] Psyblader@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Crustaceans are the closest relatives of insects.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problem with pigeon if it's been raised for food, or had a life in nature. I'm just not eating the ones in urban centres that have been eating trash all their lives.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I should've come up with a better analogy...

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That thing is an abomination that won't survive in the wild, let alone cross the bering strait

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, no question. People photoshopped the poor bird before there were photos, something like that shouldn't exist.