Posted on 05/19/2024 6:57:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Edible Spiders: Can you eat tarantula? Why, yes you can. In this article I’ll be eating spiders in Cambodia (Deep fried tarantulas) – In the capital city, Phnom Penh.
Surprisingly, this once hugely common dish has all but disappeared from major cities. We had to do some serious internet research to discover where to chew some tarantulas, without having to go out to rural areas.
We finally tracked down a restaurant that keeps many a live edible tarantula on the premises so that edible spiders are a permanent menu option
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Uhhh........no.
I’ll pass.
Why?
Who in the HELL thought of frying and eating tarantulas? It makes eating oysters sound totally reasonable....
Can we just not have to try to eat anything and everything please?
Just fry batter and leave out the gross spider.
What! Frying tarantulas? They have feelings too.
I find the idea revolting.
However.... Did yku know that Spuders and Scorpions are distantly related to...The Lobster??
Unfortunately, it’s true.
Don’t tell Michelle!
Spuders = Spider
In case there is any doubt.
Actually, if I had seen a live shrimp before I ever ate one, I probably would have refused to eat it. I’m not eating crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, flies or spiders, but some of them are spoken of as food in the Bible. As a matter of fact, shrimp are supposedly related to cockroaches!
Rocky mountain or ocean?
Do they have any chocolate covered roaches?
Nope.
Still not eating bugs.
I don’t care who does it, how often, how long, or how good they say it tastes.
One of my all-time favorite Python sketches.
They learned to eat these during khmer years to avoid starvation iirc.
Not even if you soaked them in virgin boy urine first
Got no problem downing
a dozen ice cold oysters
with a little tobacco.
I’d have to pretty near
starving, and on an
episode of “Naked and
Afraid” before I’d down
a spider.
“Did yku know that Spiders and Scorpions are distantly related to...The Lobster??”
Not distantly at all then share 99.8% DNA with lobsters. But lobsters and insects are closer than any other arthropods. So in a scientific sense lobsters are closer in DNA to cockroaches than spiders. Remember that next time you.chow down on some lobster or mudbugs.
Full disclosure I just did a full seafood boil yesterday. Snowcrab, jumbo shrimp, Caribbean lobster tails, venison sausage shot by yours truly, new potatoes ,corn, lemons,onions, J&O by the lb plus a keg of Pacifico. We are a bug eating house hold by the multiple pound full.
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