Hello and I'm Alyssa Mastraonneko.

Alyssa, I have a

go.

Hello and welcome to Hysteria.

I'm your host, Aaron Ryan.

And I'm Alyssa, I have a question for you.

I love questions.

How do you think people discovered that we can eat lobster?

Like did they start at spiders and work their way up?

I have never thought of this question. I guess the same could be true of clams and muscles.

Do we have like a line of people who died in the service to discovering that we could eat lobsters?

Did they just keep trying eating poisonous things until they found the one thing that looks like that

that's not going to kill you? I think you might be onto something here.

Lobsters are horrifying.

Crustation experts please tweeted us. My first lobster experience was at the Red Lobster, so slightly less traumatic traumatic except that you pass the tank of

lobsters and then you get a lobster and you make the connection and you're like

seven years old and you're like wait they're alive? Connect the dots. Yeah growing up on a

farm I never really had that problem. When I was much younger I lived on the back

of a very big farm and you'd hear the cows start to be like

mow and I was like what is that I asked my neighbor and he was like oh they're slaughtering

the cows and I was like what and I found out years later they were

mating not being slaughtered but he thought slaughtering was an easier thing for me to

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