# UUHHGG!! I just bit into a BIG SPIDER!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873 "2003-06-05T17:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Antiquarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Antiquarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antiquarian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/1 "2003-06-05T17:19:48Z")
OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!! That was one of the nastiest things I have ever experienced. I have a large bowl of huge strawberries next to my desk. I just picked up one of the larger ones, gripped the cluster of green leaves in a clump, and chomped down only to discover a big, black, hairy spider now severed in half… **Oi…Oi…Oi…Gag** \* I just tasted spider gut. I have to chill while the knot in my throat unbends…BLAAAAAAAAAHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/2 "2003-06-05T17:21:40Z")
I had a spider in my mouth once. The experience is just beyond disgusting. Poor you. Gargle some bleach and you’ll be fine. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/3 "2003-06-05T17:28:57Z")
Hundreds of baby spiders are often attached to the mother’s abdomen. They usually just kinda sit there… pulsing. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/4 "2003-06-05T17:29:09Z")
Oh yuck. _pukey face_ Try washing your mouth out with Listerine multiple times and scubbing your mouth with industrial strength toothpaste (and maybe throwing the toothbrush out). **shudder** ---
**Author:** ![Sassafras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@Sassafras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassafras)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/5 "2003-06-05T17:35:53Z")
EWW EWW EWW Of all the threads I ever read this was by far the most TMI: made me gag. :eek: I am sooo sorry. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/6 "2003-06-05T17:36:11Z")
What’s worse than finding a spider on your strawberry? Finding half a spider on the strawberry you just bit. ---
**Author:** ![insomnia4AM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@insomnia4AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insomnia4AM)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/7 "2003-06-05T17:38:07Z")
Oh BARF!!! **lieu** that was awful. Oh man, somebody get the disinfectant! ---
**Author:** ![spinningplates](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@spinningplates](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinningplates)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/8 "2003-06-05T17:45:47Z")
Protein! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/9 "2003-06-05T17:49:10Z")
\*\* Antiquarian\*\* have you met **Payton’s Servant**? I think you two would be great pals… ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/10 "2003-06-05T17:51:06Z")
Was it really huge and hairy **Antiquarian**? How huge, how hairy? WE NEED DETAILS ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/11 "2003-06-05T17:52:07Z")
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” “Well, pipe down about it, or everyone else will want one too!” ---
**Author:** ![Antiquarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Antiquarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antiquarian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/12 "2003-06-05T17:57:17Z")
\*\*LIEU!!! \*\* Thats so nasty!! Thank God, thank the universe for being in line, thank whoever that I am a commuter and had my toiletry bag with me!! Luckily I actually had it in my office, otherwise it is usually in my car, and I parked all the way across the common today! I brushed 6 times, and listerined until my travel bottle was empty. **shudders** Now there is a taste I will not soon unburn from my collective memory. I’ve seen some nasty, utterly gross things eaten in my travels - Bat Guano - but never had I taken the pleasure of indulging in any of them. My wife is on her way down to my office - we work for the same company - OH MY GOD!!! She can look at it in the rubbage basket, I’ll kindly refrain. BLAAAHHHGG!!! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/13 "2003-06-05T17:58:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gazelle \* > \*\*Was it really huge and hairy **Antiquarian**? How huge, how hairy? WE NEED DETAILS \*\* No no, I’m good withut knowing these things. God, now I can never eat strawberries again…or anything else, for that matter. Ewww… ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/14 "2003-06-05T17:58:36Z")
**lieu** , while it is certainly interesting, I don’t know that the OP would find the babies thing especially helpful. Very funny, though. 🙂 Don’t worry, **Antiquarian** , in some parts of the world, big, black, hairy spiders are a delicacy. Maybe. Kn(ckecking all my strawberries from now on)ckers ---
**Author:** ![Antiquarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Antiquarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antiquarian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/15 "2003-06-05T18:03:48Z")
**Kn\*ckers** - I hope you do check all of your strawberries from now on. That goes for the rest of you too!! But judging by your location **kn\*ckers** , we’re in the same state. **Gazelle** - big enough. I wanna go home. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/16 "2003-06-05T18:09:00Z")
Oh.My.God. \<\\> The only thing I remember from college is that ALL SPIDERS HAVE TOXIC VENOM. That was enough for me… now add “pulsating young” to that. :eek: I may never sleep again. (And no strawberries for me, thanks.) (I hope you get the taste out of your mouth soon!!!) : massive attack of the willies : ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/17 "2003-06-05T18:10:08Z")
Oh dear God in heaven. Why did I read this? WHY?? **lieu** , I don’t think I’ve ever giggled with horror before. Interesting experience, that. ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/18 "2003-06-05T18:17:36Z")
OMG, I have had nightmares about that. Ew ew ew ew. Poor **Antiquarian** ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/19 "2003-06-05T18:21:55Z")
Oooooh . . . and I just bought some strawberries . . . ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873/20 "2003-06-05T18:24:38Z")
Oh my god. In all the time I’ve been reading this board, no thread has created such a visceral reaction in me. The title alone was enough… What do spider guts taste like? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uuhhgg-i-just-bit-into-a-big-spider/179873.md?page=2)