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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by phonypc on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:14PM (#19250811)
People blend lobster into butter just so they can make other things taste like delicious sea insects. And it works so well because butter carries flavors really well while being pretty mild itself. It's the last thing you'd use to mask flavors.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by caymanjim on Monday February 25, 2019 @11:21PM (#19251954)
Fresh shellfish is delicious and doesn't require anything. I'm going to speculate that you didn't grow up near the ocean. I catch and cook (or in the case of clams, don't even cook) my own, and it's at its most delicious with nothing added.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by saagarjha on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:05PM (#19250742)
> giant sea insects like lobster and crab

Technically, lobster and crab are crustaceans, not insects ;)

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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by Conjoiner on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:00AM (#19252721)
that's not technically, that's arbitrarily
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by saagarjha on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:47AM (#19253096)
I mean, I'm using the commonly accepted taxonomical classification…
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by droithomme on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:17AM (#19252152)
The idea both are arthropods is certainly a fact, but the idea they are significantly different is contraindicated by numerous DNA studies at the present.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by phonypc on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:59AM (#19252293)
Crustaceans make up an entire subphylum, while insects are a class within a different subphylum. That would seem to indicate they are more differentiated than mammals and fish.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by droithomme on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:40PM (#19256472)
Things have changed. You might like to take a look at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08742.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by phonypc on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:00PM (#19258268)
Nope. "Our results strongly support Pancrustacea" which is in line with the taxonomic hierarchy I was making reference to.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by selimthegrim on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:22AM (#19252166)
Thai crab fried rice or crab soup beg to differ.

I can’t defend lobster.

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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by bitwize on Monday February 25, 2019 @11:12PM (#19251917)
In Boston it's still possible to buy lobster literally out of the back of a truck.

Lobster was so plentiful off the coast of New England that it was historically a common man's food -- marketing elevated its status significantly.

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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by factsaresacred on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:14AM (#19252983)
Not in Europe. Lobster has always been an upper-class food, since the 16th - 17th century.

Good article here: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/xy7vzw/lobsters-deli...

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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by ceejayoz on Monday February 25, 2019 @08:48PM (#19251346)
You should really buy better, fresher crab.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by droithomme on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:16AM (#19252149)
It's not bad at all. However, one of my favorite crab dishes is 간장게장.
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by homarp on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:43AM (#19253297)
if you're curious, it's https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/ganjang-gejang or "Raw crabs marinated in soy sauce"
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Re:Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2... by prevedmedved on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @02:11AM (#19252539)
I've never in my life eaten crab or lobster with butter. Is this some retarded American thing?
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