Which variety did they actually eat?
How do they determine if the critters they offer up for dinner are non-poisonous? Or that may cause some kind of reaction in the contestants sometime down the road?
Yeah, yeah…I know spiders are important to the balance of the world’s ecology. I know they’re probably more afraid of us than we are of them (though I doubt it). But there is something seriously wrong with people who EAT these fucking things for money. Seriously…I would need a lobotomy to forget the act of munching down one of those ugly, squingy muthafuckahs. Then when I came out of surgery, you’d better just fucking kill me anyway.
Never mind the spiders - why didn’t the phirrana attack? Is their ferociousness just another myth, or maybe they were immature, or need blood in the water to get going? Thoughts?
My understanding is that the viciousness of piranhas against humans has been grossly exaggerated … essentially an urban legend. I’m not having the easiest time finding an authoritative link just yet.
I saw the show, and wondered about those fish myself. Anyway, the Pacus looks like this, and that’s just what the fish in the tank looked like. I think that may be a good call, Magayuk
I’ve looked and looked, but I can’t find a link or even the title. However, in one of Jaques Cousteau’s many adventures he and crew went diving in a river and were filmed feeding piranha’s from their palms. Cousteau was surrounded by the fish and had meat in his hand. He was not bitten once. One of the cameramen was bitten, but only once.
Note that although I cannot find a link, I did view this program firsthand.
There’s a lot of hype surrounding piranhas. Yes, they’re dangerous, yes, they can attack people, no, they’re not mindless eating machines.
I caufght a show on them not too long ago, and the biggest danger you can face from piranhas occurs when the Amazon overflows its banks. When the water level drops, you get isolated pools that may contain trapped piranhas. Slowly, the food supply dwindles as everything edible is et and the piranhas start starving. Go swimming then and you’re fish food.
I saw an episode of… Rambo the Cartoon.
And Rambo jumped into a pirahna infested river…
“OH no Ramob, you’re gonna die!”
“Uhhh why no der liahlll kid. Deh oely fenzy en sallow aer.”
Translation: Why no my dear child, I am perfectly safe. Why, interestingly enough, the sinister pirahnas only enter a state of feeding frenzy when in shallow waters when food is in a state of scarcity.
Heh… What you learn for cartoons.
I saw the preview for the spider thing. I am glad I don’t watch TV anymore.
My wife and I were eating dinner the first time we saw that ad - the image of the giant friggin spider half in the chick’s mouth was… disturbing. I had a dream about giant spiders that night. Not a nightmare, per se, but not a pleasant dream…
Does anyone really know what kind of crab/scorpion/spider they actually ate? Id like to be able to look up the species on the net and get some more info on them. You know, for morbid curiousitys sake.
They did look like thaey had some kind of pincher legs on the front of them, sort of like a cross between a land crab and a large spider.
Why haven’t the PETA folks gone mad over this? Contestants are eating living creatures! I’ve seen them get up in arms over the treatment of critters in movies…why not this?