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Dezene Huber 🌻

After reading this, I’ll admit to going down a lampreys-as-cuisine rabbit hole:

“This medieval English king died from eating too much of this horrific, fish”

salon.com/2023/01/28/this-medi

I definitely disagree with the “horrific” description of these in the headline title, although a few of the meals made from it tend in that direction.

E.g. “… stew, made with lumps of lamprey boiled in its own blood and mixed with rice.”

🥣 i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/30256

@dezene as creepy as they look you have to admire them for their success!

@dezene it's the blood-sucking live animals. There is just something hideous in the idea of it.

@Ruth_Mottram Indeed. Even as an entomologist I find bedbugs to be creepy – and fascinating.

@dezene I am now strongly resisting the urge to look up what bedbugs look like.. 😬