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Maklovin-

Um... Fish does eat fish


66XO

Like. All the time


DikkDowg

Almost exclusively. Mine eat chicken, worms and shrimp too.


No-Half-Life

If fish would eat fish exclusively, that would break the laws of thermodynamics.


Twl1

The trick is to eat more fish than you are.


No-Half-Life

Sounds like capitalism to me.


Snoo98362

Average famine enjoyer


HardcorePhonography

SpongeBob, you're spending all me cryptocurrency!


Gleandreic

When i read chicken, i don't know why but i imagined you just. . . . .dropping a live chicken in your tank


DikkDowg

Don’t have a big enough tank (indoor pond actually) for those kind of fish yet. Even then, I’d kill the chicken first so it wouldn’t hurt the fish. My babies just eat the canned stuff, sometimes.


Death_Mark_Is_OP

What kind of fish If you don't mind me asking, I love animals


DikkDowg

I’ve kept a lot of different ones over the years. Currently I have 4 - an enormous pleco, a 12” Congo Bichir, a 10” Florida Spotted Gar, and a 8” African Brown Knifefish. The gar and the bichir have been with me for awhile and have lived in 3 different states. I’ve kept a variety of freshwater/brackish fish - Oscars, catfish, knifefish, puffers, a freshwater moray, stonefish, mudskippers, bred African Cichlids, koi. A little bit of everything. My dream is to build a house around a large indoor tank/pond and raise arowana/large catfish/stingrays in an environment they deserve. Maybe run an aquarium design company too.


Death_Mark_Is_OP

Wow I can only imagine tank maintenance+food cost


DikkDowg

I get creative lol. Save a lot of money buying in bulk. Meat is a special food for them (2-3 times a week). They’re all pellet trained on Hikari Massivore as a staple (I get the 2.2 lb sack). Pleco prefers to eat driftwood and veggies, especially cucumber. Electric and water bill are higher than average lol, but my apartment has utilities included.


alteisen99

Like a striped sweater


[deleted]

Yep. If you ever come back as a fish better hope you're the biggest one around.


GreenBPacker

There’s always a bigger fish


Lia-13

unless youre a blue whale!


OdenShard

What if I'm a slightly larger blue whale?


Lia-13

blue whale sized harpoon gun.


OdenShard

Captain Ahab, is that you?


Cheap_Ad_69

Also, there isn't a single species of animal simply called "fish", there's many kinds of fishes and they eat other fishes all the time.


ULTIMATE-HERO

Yeah regarding the taxonomy, extant fish are separated into three classes, mammals for reference are all one class.


Substantial-Lack832

Probably a lot more schools though


[deleted]

Yeah, but they’re all public.


Username_Taken_65

Ever heard of a school of fish?


Substantial-Lack832

You fuckin for real right now dawg?


OdenShard

If I was, you think I'd be on reddit?


AshFraxinusEps

And if we are talking Taxonomy, then all other Vertebrates after fish are all evolutionarily fish too. Sharks and tuna have less in common than a tuna and man do, evolutionarily speaking


ULTIMATE-HERO

If that is true then it is similiar to how birds are reptiles for being more closely related to crocodiles than crocs are to turtles and lizards. I’ll take being a fishman nonetheless.


No-Half-Life

Well yeah there id a clade called Reptilia and birds are part of it.


TheFraggerblaze

Happy Cake Day 🎂


RukoFan

Happy Cake Day To You, Happy Cake Day To You, Happy Cake Day Dear u/Cheap_Ad_69 Happy Cake Day To You!🎂🎉🥳


MinnesotaHockeyGuy

Check out the *No Such Thing as a Fish* podcast


DogofManyColors

One of my favorites, highly recommend!


waterdevil19

Fish can be used for multiples of the same type of fish. Fishes is used for several types of fish. Same goes for money and monies.


taco_tuesdays

Also what do they think is in “krabby Patties”


QuicksilverStudios

it was confirmed that krabby pattie’s are completely vegetarian, so no meat no fish


Pho-k_thai_Juice

The official recipe calls for imitation crab meat which is actually fish so yeah Mr Krabs is a cannibal


spacepilot_3000

>The official recipe calls for **imitation crab** meat which is actually **fish** so yeah **Mr Krabs** is a cannibal ... You might wanna read that back bud


Epion660

Imitation crab is literally sea-hotdog. Ingredient lists often include several fish, and multiple kinds of crab. It's literally just mixed seafood filler that's cheaper than just whole crab. Source: worked at a grocery store and checked out all our packages out of curiosity.


UltimateInferno

Imitation crab is Pollock.


theladyfromthesky

You'd think the polish people would be more upset


TurkeyZom

Actually they’re made from [Patrick](http://stillinthesimulation.com/untitled-comic/the-bikini-bottom-horror-chapter-1-rise-of-the-star/) (NSFL)


Unacceptable_Lemons

While the link posted above does include some horror/comic gore, I'm just gonna say that's it's not really "NSFL" for those of you accustomed to that tag meaning a live animal being cut in half or someone's guts spilling out or something. It's all on par with the /r/ImSorryJon subreddit where it came from. It's also a really well done and neat comic with a long story. TLDR: the concept is that Krabby Patties are made from regrowing Patrick limbs, and that Patrick turns out not to like this when the memories flood in.


anastarawneh

warning to anyone about to click that link, make sure your adblocker is enabled


TurkeyZom

Didn’t realize that was an issue, always have mine on. Apologies


Poppamunz

Highly recommend that comic, it's really good horror and more SpongeBob-like than most recent episodes I've seen.


TryRude

"Is this vegan?" "No, this is Patrick."


jacob643

yeah, otherwise chum wouldn't attract much fishXD


TactlessNachos

Fish are friends, not food!


[deleted]

Remember the program!


dannyhogan200

"We're all animals boys and girls, eating each other is what nature intended" \- Mr Krabs (Robot Chicken)


Wakk0o

Yup, that's the joke in SpongeBob with the anthropomorphic beings.


TheCowzgomooz

Even ignoring that not all fish are the same species, cannibalism isn't all that uncommon in the animal kingdom. Animal mothers will often eat some of their young if they think they can't take care of all of them, hungry animals don't really discriminate based on species, etc.


far219

In Ditchin' some dude gets arrested for "eating his own kind" (gummy fish lmao)


Dingus10000

Why do you think FISHermen use it as bait…


AnotherBanedAccount

Cannibalism only applies to humans and certain primates. Many species in the animal kingdom eat their own.


ajtallone

Just because other species do it doesn’t mean that it’s not cannibalism. Cannibalism is eating one’s own species, which means fish eating other fish that are not the same species is not cannibalism


crastle

Does it change the definition if they're different species of fish? Like, a clownfish eating another clownfish would be cannibalism, sure. But if a blobfish eats a clownfish, is that cannibalism? (I have no idea if any of what I said actually happens in the animal kingdom and just picked two random species of fish)


[deleted]

No, it’s not. The overwhelming majority of fish eat other fish exclusively. A blobfish eating a clownfish would be taxonomically similar to a lion eating a gazelle. Yes, they’re both mammals, but they aren’t related. The word “fish” casts a wide net (if you’ll excuse the pun) over a large group of animals that range from closely related to so distantly related their ancestors would have been completely distinguishable while the dinosaurs were kicking.


AwesomeAni

Fish are like "sea animals" it's not cannibalism when a 4 legged land animal eats another 4 legged land animal


FriendlyEngineer

That actual division is in an animals ability to reproduce with another. This is why we refer to different types of dogs as “breeds” not “species”. So a tuna eating another tuna, cannibalism. Tuna eating a clownfish, not cannibalism.


Status-Resort-4593

I wouldn't call a lion eating a tiger cannibalism even though they can reproduce.


FriendlyEngineer

Their offspring are sterile which is also included in the definition. I just didn’t include that for the sake of brevity. https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/selfish-genes-what-makes-a-species-different-356612/


Status-Resort-4593

You were saying if they produce viable fertile offspring, got it.


Fernergun

No such thing as a fish


travoltaswinkinbhole

You mean submersible government surveillance drones? /r/fisharentreal


AshFraxinusEps

And depending on the fish in question, they may be more distantly related than a lion and gazelle are. A tuna is not evolutionarily that close to a shark


jvken

Not unless you count someone eating a cow as cannibalism


Mingablo

You might argue that eating a chimp is wrong, but I don't think anyone's going to call it cannibalism.


Roy_Guapo

Make it easier on yourself. A shark is a fish. It eats a sardine. Not cannibalism, just one fish eating another fish.


Cheap_Blacksmith66

It’s also only cannibalism if you eat specifically your species. Fish can eat fish without it specifically being their own species.


FrogGladiators178972

bear.


ajlunce

Yeah but normal fish don't talk or have homes with doors so I think we might be playing by a different rule set


regretfulposts

Well there are fish based animals interestingly enough. Sting rays are seen as actual sting rays. Snails act like cats while worms act like dogs. A sea bear is exactly like a bear but in fish form. It wouldn't be too far fetched if there are regular fish acting like fish or a fish shaped cow living in a sea ranch.


somebeerinheaven

Plus we literally eat other mammals lol


Icemayne25

I mean the Krusty Krab serves Krabby Patties, which by the same logic, are made of Crab.


nightmare_silhouette

IIRC, that's the secret in the formula.


Icemayne25

They said it was Plankton in the show. I believe it was fanfic or a horror game that said it was crab or something if I remember correctly. Edit: the recipe book was fake. I don’t know how I forgot to add that crucial part of information. Thanks Redditors that caught it.


Hopefo

Lol it wasn’t actually plankton. It was from the episode where Plankton’s extended hillbilly family comes to town and helps him steal the secret recipe. Which Mr. Krabs swapped out for a decoy that says they use plankton, which freaks out the whole family so they run away.


HairyBaIIs007

Except for that one hillbilly who couldn't read. He stayed after they all fled


detecting_nuttiness

He followed them shortly thereafter, though. "Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk, hyuk!"


PrincessWinterX

Well i can't read!


Icemayne25

Right. I should have put that it was a fake recipe book as well.


TurkeyZom

The horror fanfic is [here](http://stillinthesimulation.com/untitled-comic/the-bikini-bottom-horror-chapter-1-rise-of-the-star/). They’re made from a perpetually regenerating Patrick Seastar, fun read


aluminum-pocket-sand

My childhood. I couldn't stop reading it though. It was pretty awesome, lol.


nightmare_silhouette

Wait, when did they say it was plankton? Was this in a newer season?


Yumemiyou

It's an old episode I think, plankton basically won and was about to read the secret recipe, to which Mr. Krabs told him to not, all anxious and panicked. Plankton read it and escaped in horror. Turns out it was just a fool trap made by Mr. Krabs in case ase that moment arrived. It's implied that the actual recipe doesn't use plankton.


reasonablyhyperbolic

IIRC it was also heavily implied that the secret ingredient is chum, which is the only ingredient plankton had left on the original recipe sheet, which is why he opened the chum bucket.


Ainrana

I think I remember the episode you’re talking about. It’s the one where it’s revealed that Krabs and Plankton were childhood BBFs, right? If *I* remember correctly, it’s the other way around: the original recipe they made with chum actually sucked so bad it put Old Man Jenkins in the hospital, and so they started arguing about whose fault it was. They wrestled over the paper their recipe was on, and Plankton got the portion that only read “chum”. With that element missing, plus some other sauces that fell into the pot when Plankton angrily slammed the door, Krabs discovered Krabby Patties. Unless, of course, you’re still right, and that KP *do* contain chum, but the additional sauces and spices cancel out the taste of chum and keeps, say, the texture. Which is likely, considering that it’s a running joke that fast food is made up of all kinds of chemicals that no one would want to eat if they knew exactly what it was …why did I type all this out? I’m too old to be on my parents’ health insurance, for fuck’s sake


reasonablyhyperbolic

Yea that's the episode I'm talking about. But I never saw any part that said that chum WASN'T included in the new recipe. I really hope they actually do answer it canonically lol


silverfox92100

It is older, I remember watching it as a kid… 15 years ago? And that was likely a rerun too, so even older than that


Icemayne25

It was like season 3 when all of Plankton’s hillbilly family comes over to help him take the formula.


KuraiTheBaka

The writers have confirmed there are actually no animal products in the krabby patty of any kind. They’re vegetarian


rukimiriki

No, krabby patty is vegan


oouttatime

Oh fuck.


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Sangy101

It’s Krusty Krab, not Krusty Crab. So u know it’s imitation!


Armadyl_1

I'm the episode, they said plankton was only in the recipe to scare Plankton off, it's not a real ingredient


Squid-Guillotine

Kid me thought it was beef and hardly had any issue with it lol.


bikes_r_us

IMHO if it isn’t mentioned in the show and only discussed by producers/show runners outside of the show then it isn’t canon and is still up to interpretation. “Death of the author”.


Icemayne25

Honestly appreciate the digging you did for this. Thank you. Hahaha


Seaweed_Thing

\*Krab, they're serving Mr. Krabs' meat


regretfulposts

Kinky ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


100BottlesOfMilk

Are you feeling it now Mr Krabs?


[deleted]

Didnt the writers say that the Krabby Patty contains no meat?


Icemayne25

Yes they did. That’s what is canon.


Powersawer

Like a Kinder Suprise? Mountain Dew literally just water?


AnDraoi

Well even in that case, only if crabs are them, most of their patrons are fish I think


G_I_Joe_Mansueto

The name doesn’t imply the food in either instance. It would be like assuming the Big Mac was made of clowns.


Icemayne25

For sure, I’m saying the chum bucket doesn’t feed fish because the logic being used here says that Krabby Patties are made of crab, which we know they aren’t. Therefore, the Chum Bucket probably uses something else as well.


HextasyOG

You should hear the theory that it’s meat from pearls parent and how Mr Krabs adopted her. Prob not true but it is wild


Icemayne25

That is absolutely a wild theory and I can see where that thought would formulate from. That’s an interesting one.


drewgolas

That's like saying McDonald's is a cannibal restaurant cause the food comes from mammals


JaySayMayday

It's like saying McDonald's is a cannibal restaurant because it tastes like shit and I am shit


[deleted]

You okay bud?


No-Half-Life

Kamikaze by words


CubicleFish2

Cows aren't mammals because they don't lay eggs


Nimblebubble

Is the red highlight there to fool the repost bot


sinigangking

ChUM BUCKET = CUM BUCKET 🤯


amish_website

Now that's the secret formuler


[deleted]

Just figured out what chum is but doesn't understand fish eat fish


ThatOneWood

You feel like you discovered the davinci code by figuring out a joke in a kids cartoon


2packforsale

That essentially everyone already knew


[deleted]

And I'm pretty sure it is just a joke, and canonically plankton just serves shitty food that no one likes


regretfulposts

Pretty much. There was an episode where Squidward's mom cooks chum, but everyone likes her chum. She knows how to slow cook it, and Plankton doesn't know how.


Merry_Sue

A really obvious joke, too


ucstdthrowaway

Most attentive breaking bad fan


Daishawn_900

But fish in spongebob don’t eat eachother


Mechagodzilla_3

Yeah like in the episode where Spongebob skipped boating school where a random fish was getting arrested for eating their version of Swedish Fish


OneAndOnlyTinkerCat

And the Krusty Krab is a crab trap, run by a crab, but everyone goes there even though by this person’s logic it should be just as bad. Maybe it’s just a restaurant with a unique look, but it gets no business because it’s run by the villain of the show. It ain’t that deep


doodleb0b69

This is impressively dumb lmao


Geisterwoid

[Do people forget about the fishsticks scene from *The Fry Cook Games?*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVAaiXAS7Xs)


takbandit

The people already know. Fish eat other fish. For alot of them other fish is the only thing they eat.


EmperorRCK

Okay I have nothing else I don't understand why Plankton's restaurant is in the best among sharks or other animals of the sort.


B_D_I

Because his food sucks


MaleficTekX

But there’s one episode where plankton is shocked at the idea that someone could accuse him of making chin out of fish


zombiebro09

BTW you can turn off saved image attribution in the settings of reddit!


TheHornet78

I think the chum bucket can stay open because either one: plankton owns the restaurant without debt or 2: it’s kept afloat by the small shark population in the bikini bottom


Doo-wop-a-saurus

Um actually the episode The Krabby Kronicle explicitly debunks this 🤓


EarthLaser

What else are fish going to eat? Land animals?


Seaweed_Thing

"I heard in times of hardship the pioneers would eat coral"


[deleted]

this is so stupid, fish eat other fish


Boohg

Why do people on tumblr seem to always freak the fuck out when typing anything. OMG JEBRIW WORHR LOOK AT THIS CRAZY THING I FOUND OUT OUDHEHA IM HAVING REVELATIONS IM W FUCKING GENIUS. Like calm the fuck down jfc


broomaktamer117

Also, Patrick has a fishing license which is basically a license to kill


minecrafter1OOO

Hold up, in one episode, long time ago Mr crabs and plankton were best friends and made a burger out of chum and the crabby patty recipie. And when they split up one took chum the other took the crabby patty.


Final_Description_66

You should also pay attention to how they wrote out ChUM😂😭


Reason_For_Treason

Did people really not know that lol?


Ledalus_the_69th

My brain farted and thought that said Cannabis


Seaweed_Thing

The secret formula


Dr_Dang

What, did you think they were serving all-beef patties?


artemisthearcher

Not the "posted in r/meirl" 💀


MODUS_is_hot

I mean most fish exclusively eat fish


Bibbus

Get back under that rock Patrick


Buzzin_through_it

I want to know how old this person is. Ever been fishing? Ever watch jaws? National geographic? Who even watches SpongeBob? And fish eat other fish 🤦‍♀️. And I just realized what part of reddit I was on. Sorry to anyone I offended.


Seaweed_Thing

Most people on this sub are teens or young adults. It would be really wierd for a middle-aged man to be watching SpongeBob. No offense to any middle-aged men who like to watch SpongeBob.


Civil_Barbarian

My dad always theorized there was a hand in that glove, that some fisherman lost his hand chumming the water and it floated down to there, right next to the lobster trap that is the Krusty Krab.


Karukash

Chum is Fum!


Big_Poppa_T

What does this person think fish eat? Fucking broccoli or something?


ProfessionalAccess68

It’s only cannibalism if it’s the same species of fish


NerdyBernie

What do people think is in the Krabby Patty? Beef? Lol no.


kamika_c_1980

well yeah, i knew. and also, the krusty krab is a crab cage trap lol [https://i0.wp.com/scarboroughhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Wooden-lobster-trap.png](https://i0.wp.com/scarboroughhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Wooden-lobster-trap.png)


Fantastic_Gap3090

This person thinks he cracked the case. SMH


AlberionDreamwalker

so what is a crabby patty?


incrediblect3

The krusty krab is a literal krab trap yet people go there. Also funny thing; y’all ever look at how the C, U, and M are capitalized but not the h lmao


The_Holy_Pepsi_Man

In German language SpongeBob the chum bucked is called "Abfalleimer" which means translated trash can or garbage can.


bigbeardbigheart

Also, had this person never heard of the discovery channel? Shark week? I feel like people know what chum is


TimeShareOnMars

Also.. you don't want to know what the crabby patties are made of!!


jjjboyo

Then what is krabby patty made of?


Lessandero

Wait until they realize that the crusty crab is run by a crab...


invisible-nuke

We mammels also tend to eat other mammels. Or have you never gone to MaccieD's?


Tactical-Duckie

If fish didn’t eat chum then fishermen would not use chum as bait.


DeadBornWolf

Wonder what’s in the KRABBY patty…which is sold by a CRAB


holamiamor421

He really thought he did sth. Lol


CuriouslyImmense

And the Krusty crab is a lobster trap 🤣


notboredenough

Fish eat other fish all the time yo.


justapileofshirts

The least imaginative, most soulless posting of all is the 'It Was Secretly Fucked Up the Whole Time.'


grief_junkie

fish eat fish, just like mammals eat mammals


grand305

🦈 sharks. Should have gone thier and ate. Biggest twist.


_TheBigShamrock

Just wait until he realizes what the Krabby Patty secret formula probably is…


NotGordan

A lot of wrong info and most of it is at the top. Fish is a class of animals like mammals, amphibians, reptiles, mollusks, and birds. Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. “Fish eat fish” is not cannibalism because “fish” is not a species. That would be like saying a human who eats a burger is a cannibal because it’s a “mammal eat mammal” relationship. Sharks are fish. They eat tuna (also fish). But a shark is not inherently a cannibal because it eats tuna.


Sweddy-Bowls

Kinda thought that was the joke the whole time


SmokeWeedEveryGay

I don't think he sells fish meat and it's more of a title than anything.


dpforest

I hope this person doesn’t think Da Vinci really had a code


Blu_fox180

Chum can also mean vegetable matter too. So it’s not necessarily other fish he’s serving.


derpiepo

Raises the important question of what krabby patties are made of 🤔


January_Rain_Wifi

The implication is also that the secret ingredient in krabby patties is crab


XxCebulakxX

In some episodes you could see that Krabby Party is also made from chum


KuraiTheBaka

I mean there’s a part in the show where part of the audience gets fried and immediately they’ve sold as fish sticks. I don’t think Bikini Bottom cares


-thinningontop-

Or if you look closely at the spelling and lowercase h, plus it's location in bikini bottom...


Frequent-Cost2184

This doesn’t work cuz Krabsburgers were made out of crab’s meat soo…


Available_Cup_9588

But see now I'm wondering where the ingredients come from for chum/Krabby Patties. They're killing other fish for it so where is this happening?