# There was a spider in my spinach!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 26, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772 "2005-01-26T15:38:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/1 "2005-01-26T15:38:18Z")
I had lunch with some friends today. Chicken Ceasar salad and a side of fresh-steamed spinach with butter and garlic (Atkins ain’t so bad). Eat the salad, dig into the spinach.
Munch.
Munch munch.
Munch munch munch…what’s that?
Peering closely…EWWWW!!! Dead spider, curled legs and all! :eek:
Worst part?
It was only half of a dead spider. (see munch’s above ☹ )
-Tcat
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/2 "2005-01-26T15:52:26Z")
Ha, ha, guess you could have left the chicken out - already got your protein!
Sorry.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/3 "2005-01-26T15:56:06Z")
Reminds me of when we saw my cat Bruno eating a spider. No one wanted anything to do with him for a few days and we all called him Spidey-Lips.
Hey, _you’re_ a cat…
Wheredja get that salad, Spidey-Lips? 😃
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### Author:  [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/4 "2005-01-26T16:52:55Z")
I read the title of the thread as "There was a spider in my _stomach_ ". My first thought was that you should swallow a bird to catch the spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside. . .
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/5 "2005-01-26T16:56:12Z")
Could have been worse–my ex-wife once found a long, dead worm in a can of spinach. It was almost a relief to me; I hate canned spinach, and the experience ensured that she would never want to eat it again either.
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### Author:  [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/6 "2005-01-26T18:26:27Z")
> [@Nightingale](#):
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> I read the title of the thread as "There was a spider in my _stomach_ ". My first thought was that you should swallow a bird to catch the spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside. . .
Thats the problem! Their **IS** a spider in my stomach…at least half of it! But I swallowed the bird first with the salad…
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### Author:  [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/7 "2005-01-26T19:04:05Z")
AAAAGH!
That is by far the most horrifying story I have ever read on this board. I don’t even know why I opened this thread as I have an unnatural deathly fear of spiders. Yuk, Yuk, Yuk. I am still shuddering.
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### Author:  [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/8 "2005-01-26T19:20:41Z")
[floyd mode] If you don’t eat your [sub]spider[/sub]meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you won’t eat your meat?[/floyd]
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/9 "2005-01-26T19:45:56Z")
**Tomcat** :eek: But as **Dung Beetle** pointed out, you are a cat so I guess we could all expect such behavior.
**Anaamika** I now have that stupid rhyme in my head. Gee, Thanks!
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/10 "2005-01-26T19:47:54Z")
OOPS! :smack: It’s **Nightingale** I have to thank for that stupid rhyme.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/11 "2005-01-26T19:57:31Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> OOPS! :smack: It’s **Nightingale** I have to thank for that stupid rhyme.
Trust me, **Swampy** , if I had thought of it first, I would have said it. So feel free to blame me. 😃
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/12 "2005-01-26T20:07:18Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Trust me, **Swampy** , if I had thought of it first, I would have said it. So feel free to blame me. 😃
Sorry young lady, no partial credit. It’s all or none around here.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/13 "2005-01-26T20:22:31Z")
Well, [a spider in the hand](http://photos1.blogger.com/img/223/1070/1024/fuckinglunatic.1.jpg)…
(I took that photo, and it’s a real, “wild” spider that came crawling through our campsite one night. I did not advise the fellow to pick it up.)
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/14 "2005-01-26T20:27:51Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> Sorry young lady, no partial credit. It’s all or none around here.
Young lady! Why, I oughta…
Wait. You’re \*\*older \*\* than **FairyChatMom** , aren’t you? Well, I guess you can call me young lady.
(I kid, I kid. I know you’re six months younger.)
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/15 "2005-01-26T20:56:37Z")
**jackelope** your linky no worky.
**Anaamika** I am _six months **and** six days_ younger.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/16 "2005-01-26T21:17:13Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> **jackelope** your linky no worky.
Try copying and pasting the URL? It’s working for me, but that could be some kind of cookie thing.
Or go to the page I keep for just such events: [here](http://imagedump.blogspot.com/).
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/17 "2005-01-26T21:37:49Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Ha, ha, guess you could have left the chicken out - already got your protein!
Hey, be careful who you make fun of. Next time, maybe **Tomcat** ’ll tell the story about the time he ate a salad and saw there was half a bee …
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### Author:  [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/18 "2005-01-26T21:42:43Z")
_cringe_
Now I’m thinking about all those ULs about creepycrawlies setting up house in you. And I’m usually not even arachniophobic. Or bug-phobic.
_cringe_
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### Author:  [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/19 "2005-01-27T03:49:21Z")
Am I the only one who wants to get a big huge tarantula, real hairy and all, find some ethnicity that treats them as a delicacy and have them show me how to cook it, and chow down on the sucker, just to gross out even more everyone else in the thread?
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-spider-in-my-spinach/286772/20 "2005-01-27T03:53:17Z")
> [@emekthian](#):
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> Am I the only one who wants to get a big huge tarantula, real hairy and all, find some ethnicity that treats them as a delicacy and have them show me how to cook it, and chow down on the sucker, just to gross out even more everyone else in the thread?
I regard spiders as pets & cute, but
YES
You are the only one thinking this.