Mrs. Antiquarian here…He’s a wuss. I come down to his office to see him because he was whining about biting into a spider…
A) the spider isn’t that big.
B) it was dead - newly, though I’ll give him that, there was some gut left. most likely died in the fridge.
C) he’s just a big wuss.
cheers.
a drama queen as well! 
How big is ‘isn’t that big’? Like, as big as a dime, as big as a kitten? We need details
That’s it. I will never EVER open another thread with the word “spider” in the title.
Ever.
Gah.
The eatsy bitsy spider
went down the strawberry’s route,
Down came Listerine
and washed the babies about.
Here come the young
to avenge what teeth did maim,
For the itsy bitsy spiders
have reached your throat again.
Mrs. Antiquarian… it was still a spider. Spiders do NOT belong in people’s mouths! ::shudder::
Mind you, I have no problem with spiders as long as they stay up in the corners of my ceilings catching mosquitos. I can even deal with them crawling around lost in the pink ceramic expanse of my bathtub, or the Great Linoleum Desert of the bathroom floor. But in my food?!
You have my sympathies, Antiquarian.
I feel for you, Antiquarian
i once ate a nice green salad…to discover in the leftovers the head of an googly-eyed insect…not tiny either…
gags
That’s lovely lieu. I will never be able to play that game with my heathens again.
As for strawberries I never eat without washing first. See, I used to have a huge patch of them when I was a growing heathen myself and mom and dad always had us do the picking. Lots of spiders in there.
I have an unnatural fear of them to start with so not a good combination.
Also, if you get them at the store you never know how many hands have touched them and what they were doing before they touched them. Or, what chemicals they were sprayed with or what conditions they were shipped under.
Always was your produce.
It was about as big as a quarter for CHRISSAKE!!
My wife has no sympathy for me. Thats ok she can take the T today and I’ll meet her at home.
Lieu - revel in it if you must. [curse]may vermin trap itself with-in your confines, and may YOU taste of it’s ilk. [/curse]
Dinner will be tough this evening at the Antiquarian household.
I still want the answer to Jean Grey’s question: What did the spider taste like?
You may want to get a good look at the spider. The brown recluse is found all the way up in Boston, you know.
I bit into some Candyfloss once and there was an earwig in there. You know those pincer/claw things that earwigs have? Well it bit my tongue and it wouldn’t let go. Nasty little sod.
Don’t people swallow spider’s in their sleep without knowing? I’m sure I heard that somewhere. You’ve probably eaten even bigger ones in the past without even realising Antiquarian. Now, isn’t that a comforting thought? Hmmm?
Welcome to the Boards Fizzy. You can check the Straight Dope archives – I’m quite sure that the “eating a spider in one’s sleep” has been thoroughly debunked either by Cecil or in one of the Mailbag Staff Reports…
Darn it, now I have to go lookin’ for a linky-link!
I think this is only a problem if the spider bites you, not the other way around.
lieu, you are an evil, evil person…and I love you for it.
Well, Balance, for all we know our dear OP may have swallowed the venom sac, and in a few hours when his stomach acid breaks through, he may have an unpleasant surprise.
Me? Well, I just don’t eat spiders.
Nah, with all this stress, his stomach acid will be capable of burning through adamantium. Breaking down spider venom won’t be a problem.
maybe its only massachussetts strawberries with massachussetts spiders in em. God i hope so, i have a bowl of strawberries in the fridge, and now i am afraid to look.
[Gollum]
Was it crrrunchable? Was it taaasty?
[/Gollum]
My spider’s breath smells like strawberries.
My strawberry breath smells like spider.