Crab-sized tarantula- maybe, if properly cooked. I do like crab.
Normal sized spider- NO. Sorry, LarryBobb, but raw spider just isn’t on the same level as grilled tri-tip.
OK, so think of it as spider sushi then. Of course, the nearest analog (crab) is usually not eaten raw with the shell on as was done with the spider in the original post. “Spider Rolls” (which have no actual spider content) contain a deep fried soft-shell crab, which goes back to my suggestion of deep frying the sucker next time.
There are also restaurants in Japan where they deep fry whole shrimp (shell, head and all) and the whole thing is to be eaten. That’s really quite good. The shell adds a nice crunch that chews a lot better than you might think; the texture is like the candy coating on an M&M… And the head tastes a quite good too!
Maybe fried spider dipped in ranch dressing, like calamari!
But given the attitude towards eating spider at all on this thread, I’m guessing that one would never really catch on… Still, I could foresee restaurants where you pick out the spider to be eaten just like lobster in a seafood restaurant… They would be speared and dropped right in the deep fryer and brought to your table steaming hot with garlic butter on the side… Mmm…
Yummm…Smucker’s Strawberry Jam will never taste the same again…
The OPer, and apparently quite a lot of people in S.E. Asia, have lived my very worst nightmare. In all seriousness, given the choice, I’d sooner die.
And I know that that’s stupidly weird and non-sensical, but it’s absolutely true. Maggots, wasps, snakes, all disgusting yes, but I know I could eat them if I absolutely had to. Spiders and flys though, just could not ever be done, even if my life depended on it.
Anyone know why the hell it disgusts me (us!) so much??
My favourite (?) meal was the spaghetti bolognese delivered complete with a gutted lizard with a partially detatched leg on top…
The best bit was when I complained, they gave me another plateful. D’you think they may perhaps have hauled the replacement sauce from the same pot as my lizard had been depositing its guts in earlier? 
Strangely enough, none of us (all having the spaghetti bolognese) managed to eat our meal that night…
By the way, the spider story is horrific! My worst one was waking up on Graduation day and running my fingers through my hair, and finding that I had half a spider mangled into my hair, and the other half squished into my pillow!
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I think part of it is that, based on the amount of listerine used, the spider tasted like ass (not literally, of course). So it wasn’t just conceptually repulsive, but tasted terrible too.
GUH
[paranoid]Examines the inside of his Mt. Dew can closely before taking another sip.[/paranoid]
God, I love this thread.
EW! Not only is this gross, it happened so close to home! In my own STATE! My blissful illusion of safety has been shattered.
Despite copious amounts of nuclear-waste level insecticide being applied around our house and property, my husband has been bitten twice by brown recluse spiders. In our bedroom. Once in our bed while he was sleeping. Both times caused considerable pain, not to mention months worth of really, really nasty [and expensive] medical treatment.
So, Antiquarian, I applaud you for taking a bite back in revenge. Your sacrifice is appreciated by spider-bitten folk everywhere.
[sub]I sure would have been tossing my cookies had it been me, though…[/sub]
I used to work in a grocery store, in the produce section. One of the many jobs that I did, in addition to stacking bananas, quartering watermelons, and answering questions about when kumquats were in season, I also did something with strawberries.
You know those little green bins of strawberries that you pick up in the store, already preweighed, with a little bit of cellophane over the top?
I used to sort through those before they were weighed and wrapped, and pull out the ones that were rotten, spoiled, or infested with insects.
I have seen more spiders in strawberries than the rest of this forum together. I guarantee it.
Try that on for size. I haven’t eaten a strawberry not picked with my own hands since.
Oh.My.Damn.
Whooooo! Just damn.
OK, I gotta say, the whole spider thing didn’t bother me at all. I didn’t find it all that disgusting - in fact I agree with LarryBobb on this one. I mean, get over it, it’s a freakin spider fer crissakes!
Then I read fizzygoodmakefeelnice’s story. Earwig? In your mouth? Clamped on your tounge? Arrrg! I think im gonna be sick…
I can’t imagine eating spiders is any worse than eating Geoducks. That has to be the worst thing in the world to eat… :&
Abel’s Brother, I think you single-handedly are going to cause a dip in strawberry purchases this season. Thank you VERY much.
Gah.
I’m sorry for referencing a banned person earlier in this thread. I didn’t know he was banned. I wasn’t trying to be a jerk.
I love threads like this. I can only imagine the reaction after seeing the remains of the spider.
quick hijack
Cybersnark…we live in the same city. Drop me an e-mail."
Thank you for your patience.
ick ick ick ick
I shouldn’t have opened this thread.
ick ick <shudder>
And I just had lunch too…
Grelby - I hope you don’t live in Newton. I live there most of the week with my wife, then we commute back to southern Vermont. The Strawberries were bought in a certain grocery store…Stop & … something In Watertown.
Paradigm - geoducks…no.
bad news for everyone, i read somewhere that humans eat an average of 4 spiders a year during our sleep…
hmmm… bon appetite…