Posted on 04/12/2024 6:43:52 PM PDT by DallasBiff
EVER EATEN A spider? The golden orb-weaving spider (Nephila edulis) has a plump abdomen that, after baking, tastes remarkably like pâté. Many years ago I fed one to a journalist on A Current Affair. She was very reluctant to chew it but agreed about the taste.
The scientific name of this spider celebrates its culinary merits. French naturalist Jacques Labillardiere bestowed the name in 1799 after seeing the spiders roasted and eaten in New Caledonia. Other species of Nephila are eaten in Thailand, served raw as well as cooked, as well as in New Guinea, where they’re fire-roasted. About the size of small olives, the abdomens are a substantial titbit.
Besides tasting good, golden orb-weavers have useful silk. If you have ever blundered into one of the golden webs you will know how strong they are. Small birds and bats are sometimes snared, and in New Guinea and Vanuatu the strands have been wound together to serve as ready-made fishing line. The silk is superior to most synthetic high-performance fibres, with high tensile strength and elasticity.
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“Ever Eaten A spider?” Only if I swallowed one while I was sleeping, but never on purpose. Nor do I have any intention of trying one.
I’m sure I’ve eaten a spider at one time or another.
“Ever Eaten A spider?”
Only after swallowing a fly...
Yeah, no.
Yum. It tastes like pâté. Would that be chicken pâté?
Only if I swallowed one while I was sleeping, but never on purpose.
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No spiders that I’m aware of, but the other night I damn near did eat a Ladybug, but I managed to brush her off my open lips a second before she entered my yap. Not sure where she went because I didn’t feel the urge to flick on a light and hunt for her.
So what insects or arthropods would you eat? Assuming you eat sea arthropods already.
I think I might try escamoles -ant pupae aka Mexican caviar, and some leafhoppers that Andrew Zimmern ate in Madagascar.
The guy also ate maggot cheese in Sardinia and dung beetles in Thailand. Not on my menu.
Locusts? They’re kosher. Cicadas look sort of appealing when they first emerge - they are ivory with a faint pink and green iridescence. Call them tree shrimps. But not appealing after they go green-black. They aren’t kosher. They don’t have the right kind of legs.
Do you know that "pate" is spider feces.
EVER EATEN A spider?
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Not that I’m aware of, but I am the only person I’ve ever met who has eaten a Porcupine! Skinned and cooked her like she was a chicken.
When there is documented proof that Bill Gates is eating cockroaches, and spiders… I still won’t eat that crap.
Hey guys... Don’t eat spiders. Whoever thought it was a good idea was batshit crazy.
WEF? Them first.
I don’t care if its an Eint-see Whint-see spider.
I’m not that desperate.
The closest I would voluntarily come to that would be to eat baked items made from the flour of crunched bugs.
I won’t need to worry about getting any antennae stuck between my teeth.
Pate, from any animal, is highly overrated, as is Caviar.
The high prices don’t add any flavor.
I guess in this case it is.
What kind of legs makes an insect kosher?
Yet these may ye eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours, which have jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth; Lev 11
So knees higher than their feet, jumpy legs. And I suppose they have to swarm. And most rabbis would only permit 4 particular species of desert locust. There are no dessert locusts. Crickets aren’t kosher.
How do you skin a porcupine? Please don’t say “carefully.”
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