Agreed. Any planet with giant scorpions is right out.
Yes, giant scorpions and spiders (I’m a confirmed arachnophobe) are to be feared, but what really keeps me up worrying late at night are giant ex-wives. 
If we’re going full SF/fantasy, there’s another possibility. In Greg Egan’s Scale, it turns out that there are stable, heavy, charged leptons available. That is, instead of electrons, atoms have something heavier (heavy, charged leptons exist in reality–the muon is one type–but they’re unstable).
Because the leptons are heavier, their wavelength is smaller, and therefore so are the atoms. But the mass of an atom is almost entirely in the nucleus, so it just gets more dense. An animal made using these heavy leptons is small but no less massive.
But this means strength is not an issue. If we imagine some atom in the ankle of a creature, it has the same mass of atoms stacked on top of it. So the scaling laws work the same way.
Chemical reactions do go faster, and the scaled creatures don’t live as long. Which is ok, since they think more quickly at the same rate. Things are normal from their perspective.
This reminds me of the Cheela from the SF book, Dragon’s Egg (which I recently posted about in a different thread). They are a sesame seed-size alien race of beings in a civilization that evolved on a neutron star (with incredible gravity and spin).They evolve at a rate many times greater than that of humans (due to the spin of the neutron star), and Cheela physiology is much different from that of humans due to the gravity differential between us and them.
But we make contact and interact with the Cheela, for a short time in human time, but a long time in Cheela time. Through human eyes, they go from primitive barbarians to a super-advanced civilization in the blink of our eye. They start as our students, but end as our teachers. Great Hard SF; definitely worth reading.
There are some similarities with Dragon’s Egg (agreed that it’s a great book!). But one difference is that here, chemistry works almost exactly the same way, so there are humans and other life with the scaled dimensions. And with several levels available, scaling by 2x each time. There are some interesting side effects, like that natural water sources stratify so that normal water floats on a layer of super-dense water, which floats on a layer of even denser water, etc.
I can say with certainty lobster and crab have distinct flavors and are delicious. I think you could say the same about chicken or pork or beef. Sauce can enhance or hide what lies beneath. The lobster in a lobster roll is not hidden by the “sauce” (as an example). Crab is not hidden by dipping it in drawn butter.
Not to mention the ickiness of it. I might be able to get through the ordeal, but I don’t know if I’d feel like eating immediately afterward. Maybe a stiff drink and a smoke to settle my nerves.
I think I know what you mean, although I wouldn’t say they taste like nothing. I used to feel similarly and have been appreciating the taste of seafood more than I did a few years ago.
I agree w you. Perhaps the esteemed @whc.03grady dips his seafood in ketchup. That would go a long way to making them taste like ketchup-flavored indistinguishable nothingness.
As nasty as that large arthropod looks, it doesn’t look any nastier to me than a generic crab or lobster. It being less familiar makes it more immediately unsettling. But after a couple minutes to get used to the face and wall of legs, it’s basically the same face and wall of legs as any other crustacean. And probably about equal work to disassemble whether in the kitchen pre-cooking or on the plate post-cooking.
Personally I prefer my arthropods pre-disassembled and served as chunks in a cream sauce. Let the staff handle the hard work.
Just one regular sized house cat in a bad mood can put a human down badly enough to require emergency room treatment. Ask me how I know.
An old GF of mine got cat scratch fever (cat scratch disease) and put her in a hospital for a week. Kidjanot.
I thought the same thing. Another sea bug basically. That one looks like a giant roly poly. But since I love other crustaceans I would be willing to try that one too.
Going out on a limb here … judging by your avatar you have a bad habit of keeping a fearsome feline right near your jugular vein. Professionally speaking: Don’t do that. 
Agreed.
Anyone who thinks an e.g. ladybug is cute has never really looked at them under sufficient magnification. They’re ghastly death mechas worthy of any alien movie.
I’ve said it before on the Dope, but the visceral immediate instinctive reactions most humans have to creepy crawly arthropods suggests to me something buried deep in the brain from our mammalian roots as 4" shrews in a world dominated by scorpions the size of cattle and spiders the size of swine. Plus reptiles the size of cars & small houses. Run away!!! Run away!!!11!!!
I prefer my reptiles the size of skyscrapers…
It wasn’t that cat, nor that vein - but you’re on the right track.
And here I thought that “cat scratch fever” was one of those old-fashioned, vaguely-euphemistic expressions for marital infidelity, like “seven-year itch”.
Run into a pack of glyptodonts crossing the highway, and you might wind up as roadkill.