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Edible Spiders: Eating Deep Fried Tarantula In Cambodia (Edible Tarantula)
FoodFunTravel ^ | 1/5/23 | Megsy

Posted on 05/19/2024 6:57:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Edible Spiders: Can you eat tarantula? Why, yes you can. In this article I’ll be eating spiders in Cambodia (Deep fried tarantulas) – In the capital city, Phnom Penh.

Surprisingly, this once hugely common dish has all but disappeared from major cities. We had to do some serious internet research to discover where to chew some tarantulas, without having to go out to rural areas.

We finally tracked down a restaurant that keeps many a live edible tarantula on the premises so that edible spiders are a permanent menu option

(Excerpt) Read more at foodfuntravel.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: cambodia; communism; eatzebugs; food; khmerrouge; spiders; tarantula; youvilleatzebugs
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Well it seems that young leftists yearn for the days of the khmer rouge, where tarantulas were a treat, to the starving masses.
1 posted on 05/19/2024 6:57:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Uhhh........no.


2 posted on 05/19/2024 6:59:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DallasBiff

I’ll pass.


3 posted on 05/19/2024 6:59:44 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Red Badger

4 posted on 05/19/2024 7:01:35 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DallasBiff

Why?


5 posted on 05/19/2024 7:01:58 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: DallasBiff

Who in the HELL thought of frying and eating tarantulas? It makes eating oysters sound totally reasonable....


6 posted on 05/19/2024 7:02:06 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: DallasBiff

Can we just not have to try to eat anything and everything please?

Just fry batter and leave out the gross spider.


7 posted on 05/19/2024 7:07:06 PM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: DallasBiff

What! Frying tarantulas? They have feelings too.


8 posted on 05/19/2024 7:17:07 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: DallasBiff

I find the idea revolting.
However.... Did yku know that Spuders and Scorpions are distantly related to...The Lobster??
Unfortunately, it’s true.
Don’t tell Michelle!


9 posted on 05/19/2024 7:23:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Spuders = Spider
In case there is any doubt.


10 posted on 05/19/2024 7:24:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

Actually, if I had seen a live shrimp before I ever ate one, I probably would have refused to eat it. I’m not eating crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, flies or spiders, but some of them are spoken of as food in the Bible. As a matter of fact, shrimp are supposedly related to cockroaches!


11 posted on 05/19/2024 7:28:43 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Mr Rogers

Rocky mountain or ocean?


12 posted on 05/19/2024 7:34:15 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: DallasBiff

Do they have any chocolate covered roaches?


13 posted on 05/19/2024 8:00:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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14 posted on 05/19/2024 8:03:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Nope.

Still not eating bugs.

I don’t care who does it, how often, how long, or how good they say it tastes.


15 posted on 05/19/2024 8:13:39 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: dfwgator

One of my all-time favorite Python sketches.


16 posted on 05/19/2024 8:56:04 PM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: DallasBiff

They learned to eat these during khmer years to avoid starvation iirc.


17 posted on 05/19/2024 9:29:26 PM PDT by 31R1O (The people who can control themselves ought to be able to defend themselves from those who can't.)
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To: DallasBiff

Not even if you soaked them in virgin boy urine first


18 posted on 05/19/2024 9:41:17 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Mr Rogers

Got no problem downing
a dozen ice cold oysters
with a little tobacco.
I’d have to pretty near
starving, and on an
episode of “Naked and
Afraid” before I’d down
a spider.


19 posted on 05/20/2024 12:39:43 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: lee martell

“Did yku know that Spiders and Scorpions are distantly related to...The Lobster??”

Not distantly at all then share 99.8% DNA with lobsters. But lobsters and insects are closer than any other arthropods. So in a scientific sense lobsters are closer in DNA to cockroaches than spiders. Remember that next time you.chow down on some lobster or mudbugs.

Full disclosure I just did a full seafood boil yesterday. Snowcrab, jumbo shrimp, Caribbean lobster tails, venison sausage shot by yours truly, new potatoes ,corn, lemons,onions, J&O by the lb plus a keg of Pacifico. We are a bug eating house hold by the multiple pound full.


20 posted on 05/20/2024 1:51:18 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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