What don't we eat anything which is edible?

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There’s something to the “if you’re hungry, you eat what’s available” theory. A while back, I read an article (check out the link, there’s a picture of a basket of spider ) on fried spiders in Cambodia being considered a delicacy. Evidently, the Cambodians started eating spiders (among other things) during the desperate days of the Khmer Rouge and devloped a taste for spider. (eeeww)

For the millions forced at gunpoint into the fields, grubs and insects such as spiders, crickets, wasps and “konteh long” - the giant water beetles found in lakes near the Vietnamese border - were what kept them alive.

“When people fled into the jungle to get away from Pol Pot’s troops, they found these spiders and had to eat them because they were so hungry,” said Sim Yong, a 40-year-old mother of five.

“Then they discovered they were so delicious,” she said, proffering a plate piled high with hundreds of the greasy fried arachnids.

“And our spiders are by far the best in Cambodia.”

Since spiders are one of the only insect-type things the Cambodians still consume, I’m betting the other bugs weren’t tasty.