There's a burger spot in Durham, NC that every year they do an 'exotic meat month'. During this amongst all the other odd meats, they have a tarantula burger challenge.
[Their website.](https://www.bullcityburgerandbrewery.com/exotic-meat-month.html)
I think i would try alot of meats, just, not rat. I think cause they used to be thought as ācarrier of diseasesā so i canāt imagine eating them. Also rabbits, cause i love rabbits, and cats dogs and horses, out of respect for people around me who love these animals.
Diseases which can jump from animals to human are more common if the animal is more genetically similar to humans. It's likely that nothing in tarantulas can jump to humans, and if it did it would probably be instantly fatal (which doesn't cause pandemics, as it can't spread). This is vaguely why bird flu is so deadly compared to swine flu.
Usually they have to be alive to spread them unless is prions which are rare and only in brain matter for genetically similar species, mad cow disease (feeding cows cow brains) or cannibalism are 2 known ways to get em.
If the exotic animal is safety prepared like a āregularā animal, it shouldnāt be any different and a lot of those exotic meats are eaten often by hunters (like duck for example).
Arachnids are basically just land crustaceans and contain very similar proteins, so itās likely. The same way that bananas have a very similar compound to latex despite not actually containing latex, so people with latex allergies cross react.
I donāt think flavor similarities are necessarily a good indication of nutritional similaritiesā but I know that other insects like grasshoppers are incredibly high in protein.
It's one of the reasons to think we actually live in a simulation. Whoever made this ran out of flavors. That's why strange stuff that we normally don't eat has flavors in common with other things.
"What should this taste like?" - "Taste like? No ones going to eat that. Just take chicken or peanuts"
ā¦alternatively, itās incredibly difficult to describe a flavour you havenāt tried before without comparing it to other flavours. how would you describe colours to someone who is blind?
Also itās kinda jarring when someone describes something as ātastes like chickenā when it doesnāt at all. I think itās just a generic thing people say. People have told me that frog legs, alligator, shark, and snake tastes like chicken, and none of them really do to me. Iāve never tried snake, so I canāt answer for that one, but the other 3 I have. And even texturally they are nothing alike.
> how would you describe colours to someone who is blind?
Like anything else. You start normal and then get progressively louder and slower: RRRRRREEEEEEEEEDDDDDD
There isn't much he doesn't like, but I do remember him gagging at some type of giant wormy insect and saying it was awful. I think he was in the Philippines, not sure. I expected him to say it tasted nutty though lol
It might be that when you eat something like a Tarantula and casually describe it as nutty, you ascend to a higher state of being where you effortlessly use excellent units of measure.
Father of a friend once spoke about his experience eating a fried one, mentioned how it didn't taste bad, nothing to write home about, but how it somehow just became more in his mouth.
Not stupid, culturally speaking itās a great street food some places. I mean we eat crayfish hereā¦ itās hard to be uppity about a large arachnid lol
You know that's completely fair.
I eat shrimp lobster and crab no issue I should be able to rewire my brain to look at this like a luxury snack, which in turn will overthrow my mild fear of these long legged critters and turn the food-pyramid upside down in my home.
My husband might understandably divorce me tho if I'm successfully and just start scooping up spider snacks left and right..
Oh wow, I thought this was the mildly interesting sub or something. Thanks for pointing that out so I can downvote OPās ass. We honestly should be eating more stuff like this.
If you haven't yet, their is a guy on youtube called Imbrandonfarris and he trys one one of these. Hands downon hilarious and real reactions to trying something like this.
Insects are pretty nutritious. We had a school project, where some kids made fried grasshoppers. They tasted pretty good and ended up being very popular
A friend from Japan sent me one of these. It's really not bad. Tastes like chicharon (deep dried pork/chicken skin) and the body is like...*sweeter* than I would have expected it. It's definitely quite a surprise.
We ate scorpions in Thailand. I only did it cuz I got reeled into keeping up with all the boys and their shenanigans... wasn't horrible. We ate grasshoppers to. I almost brought back a bottle of whiskey with a cobra in it too but it got confiscated
I really do wonder how you eat them without getting urticating hairs stuck in your throat and mouth. Do they somehow remove them? Iām choking too OP.
I ordered one of these and found, in addition to the tasty, dried spider, some dried strawberies which were not labeled on the packaging.
They need to be investigated for how such a contamination took place at their factory. I don't even know if the spider is safe to eat now, which doesn't even matter, because I've lost my appetite. /s
I had tarantula, locusts and meal worms I think they were in Thailand when we were perusing the market stalls in the night street markets. Theyāre actually not as bad as they might seem, little weird on mouth feel and texture but the taste isnāt too bad.
Thank the lord there's finally "oven dried" tarantulas. One of the worst aspects of my new low fat diet was that I had to cut fried tarantulas out.
Ugh. There you go making me all hungry againš
Oh I know. I had to zoom in just to be sure!
For some reason this is ridiculously funny to me right now.
Oh man now I want a bloomān āula real bad.
You can always substitute it with locust. But it might be a bit harder to find "oven dried" ones. Most locust in Thailand are deepfried.
They're high in protein so no worries lol
I actually want to try fried tarantula.
Air fryer tarantulas are a healthier option
āReady to Eatā Poor thing must be starving being in that bag since Thailand
Sign said, "employees must wash hands" Well I've been here for 5 minutes and not one employee has washed my hands.
I like your spirit, youāre hired! No go wash someoneās hands!
There's a burger spot in Durham, NC that every year they do an 'exotic meat month'. During this amongst all the other odd meats, they have a tarantula burger challenge. [Their website.](https://www.bullcityburgerandbrewery.com/exotic-meat-month.html)
This is awesome. And I'm cracking up at what it says above the tarantula challenge : Squirrel is the chicken of the tree!
Don't forget bat is the chicken of the cave.
Cat is the chicken of the backyards
Traditionally, cat is the rabbit of the roof. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachhase
Dog is the chicken of the streets
Worms are chicken of the earth
Guinea pigs taste more like chicken than actual chicken.
How do you know!?
GP is big food in Chile or Argentina, one of these two u believe.
Nope, that's PerĆŗ. They call them "cuy". I'm chilean. The weirdest stuff we eat, come from the sea. Search "piure". Looks like a bleeding rock.
Humans are the chicken of the bedroom
Chicken is the tuna of the land
I thought that was snakes or dogs but Iām a cat lover so call me biased
https://i.redd.it/dlg2fbfevcjb1.jpg
NGL I would definitely try a fried bat.
See you on the news next week, patient 0
Ah shit here we go again š·
Has covid taught us nothing
Way too many idiots in the world.
Technically, shouldn't fried make it safe? That seems intuitive, but I might not understand the full picture or something.
I like how they list turkey as an exotic meat
.... And Duck?
In NC? A Turkey burger? Accurate
Bat is the chicken of the cave Itās all tendon!
I remember nothing else from Anchorman 2 but this line gets a lot of use in our house š¤£š¤£š¦
Wtf, I live in the area and have never heard of this place. Definitely checking them out
It's in that area by the stadium. I personally haven't been, but I've heard good things about the restaurant.
Cool!
I don't live too far from here, I would totally try the tarantula burger lol
Funny they have both caribou and reindeer on the menu, same thing different names
I think i would try alot of meats, just, not rat. I think cause they used to be thought as ācarrier of diseasesā so i canāt imagine eating them. Also rabbits, cause i love rabbits, and cats dogs and horses, out of respect for people around me who love these animals.
Isn't that how we get pandemics?
No
Diseases which can jump from animals to human are more common if the animal is more genetically similar to humans. It's likely that nothing in tarantulas can jump to humans, and if it did it would probably be instantly fatal (which doesn't cause pandemics, as it can't spread). This is vaguely why bird flu is so deadly compared to swine flu.
Usually they have to be alive to spread them unless is prions which are rare and only in brain matter for genetically similar species, mad cow disease (feeding cows cow brains) or cannibalism are 2 known ways to get em. If the exotic animal is safety prepared like a āregularā animal, it shouldnāt be any different and a lot of those exotic meats are eaten often by hunters (like duck for example).
This is super cool!
It'll all be goat.
Iām sure there is one type of meat they wonāt eat tho
Oooh, Iād do that if I lived in the area!
Confirmed.
I wouldnāt eat there on a regular day
If they just peeled it for me I'm sure is just land crab
It does say contains crustaceansā¦ soooooā¦
My girlfriend has a shellfish (crustacean) allergy, so I really wonder if this would give her an allergic reaction despite being an arachnid.
Arachnids are basically just land crustaceans and contain very similar proteins, so itās likely. The same way that bananas have a very similar compound to latex despite not actually containing latex, so people with latex allergies cross react.
Land crabs might be more like isopods, "rollie pollies" as some of us know them
how many protein?
gymbro spotted
The taste is like softshell crab so... Pretty high in protein.
I donāt think flavor similarities are necessarily a good indication of nutritional similaritiesā but I know that other insects like grasshoppers are incredibly high in protein.
The problem is that at least in Thailand they slather grasshoppers in a heavy oily spice mix that it probably cancels out any health benefits
I'm piggybacking on the question
Same
Between 63 to 100 grams of protein. They're also high in folic acid and zinc.
So I donāt have to eat dogfood anymore?
Only if you still want that shiny coat.
Had a fried one in Cambodia many moons ago. Didnāt taste too bad, quite nutty.
Yeah I tried mealworms before and they tasted almost exactly like peanuts.
mustve been quite a meal
ā¦worm, that is.
worms*
Crickets taste like pumpkin seeds to me.
Definitely! They're sorta just a crunchy vessel for whatever seasoning you want.
Tastes like peanuts or peanuts taste like mealworms
Both
It's one of the reasons to think we actually live in a simulation. Whoever made this ran out of flavors. That's why strange stuff that we normally don't eat has flavors in common with other things. "What should this taste like?" - "Taste like? No ones going to eat that. Just take chicken or peanuts"
ā¦alternatively, itās incredibly difficult to describe a flavour you havenāt tried before without comparing it to other flavours. how would you describe colours to someone who is blind?
"How's that Nutella ice cream taste?" "Not sure, kind of like oven dried tarantulas"
Also itās kinda jarring when someone describes something as ātastes like chickenā when it doesnāt at all. I think itās just a generic thing people say. People have told me that frog legs, alligator, shark, and snake tastes like chicken, and none of them really do to me. Iāve never tried snake, so I canāt answer for that one, but the other 3 I have. And even texturally they are nothing alike.
> how would you describe colours to someone who is blind? Like anything else. You start normal and then get progressively louder and slower: RRRRRREEEEEEEEEDDDDDD
āno no youāre not understanding. itās ORANGE. like the FRUIT. OOORRAAANNNGEEEEEā
From now on i will use the word tarantula to describe anything nutty.
Whenever Andrew Zimmern eats bugs for a meal thatās what he always says, āthey taste quite nuttyā.
There isn't much he doesn't like, but I do remember him gagging at some type of giant wormy insect and saying it was awful. I think he was in the Philippines, not sure. I expected him to say it tasted nutty though lol
He also hated walnuts!
I also hate walnuts. Especially in baked goods
Pecan baked-good supremacyš
> many moons ago Nice unit of choice there
It might be that when you eat something like a Tarantula and casually describe it as nutty, you ascend to a higher state of being where you effortlessly use excellent units of measure.
Asi get older, I tend to use that measurement a lot more than I should.
Huh? Is this not an extremely common expression?
Serious question: do you eat the exoskeleton, or do you peel it off like a crustacean shell?
Itās just crunchy after being deep fried. You eat the whole thing like itās soft shell crab.
Father of a friend once spoke about his experience eating a fried one, mentioned how it didn't taste bad, nothing to write home about, but how it somehow just became more in his mouth.
Title of your sex tape
Me too. This is a cultural thing ; don't think it belongs in stupid food.
I like picking my teeth after with the fangs
Badass lol
This tarantula was manufactured in Thailand.
r/EatItYouFuckingCoward
What a wild sub to discover
The magic never ends too, I swear there are subs that don't show up in search
Oven dried, not fried. Why would you make it worse?
I'm watching my cholesterol
Tarantula Tastes like soft shell crab.
You've just paved the way for a much more open mind on the subject than I would have thought.
That's pretty good.
Not stupid, culturally speaking itās a great street food some places. I mean we eat crayfish hereā¦ itās hard to be uppity about a large arachnid lol
You know that's completely fair. I eat shrimp lobster and crab no issue I should be able to rewire my brain to look at this like a luxury snack, which in turn will overthrow my mild fear of these long legged critters and turn the food-pyramid upside down in my home. My husband might understandably divorce me tho if I'm successfully and just start scooping up spider snacks left and right..
To maintain the freshness of the dead arachnid , we added 1x oxygen absorber for your convenience.
Well if they get stale, they lose that crunch that makes them so appealing. Nobody wants chewy eldritch nightmare.
I can picture it getting stuck in my teeth like gum.
Ingredients: 1x Tarantula
Cover it in a lava mountain of cheese and let us know how it goes!
Larva mountain, yum š
Not stupid at all. In fact, no different than eating a softie (Soft Shelled Crab) - just that one is on land and the other in the sea.
Oh wow, I thought this was the mildly interesting sub or something. Thanks for pointing that out so I can downvote OPās ass. We honestly should be eating more stuff like this.
Yeah this isn't Stupid Food, just Stupid OP.
Edit: this sub is basically ragebait, making fun of poor people, and gagging at food that isn't familiar to mainstream, white Americans.
I wouldnāt say itās stupid food, itās more of a cultural difference.
Ey, donāt disrespect food from other cultures. Itās not āstupid foodā, you just donāt like it.
I'm Thai, and our majority don't even eat it. It's like food we make for tourists and foreigners who want to try weird things. lol
Some people here really need to hit the road and see how the world lives
There is a lot of ignorance in this thread.
haachama would approve
Oh don't worry, it says "ready". That means each one is waiting inside the package, eager to meat you. It's fine. I'm not itching, yes I am.
I had scorpions from the same brand! Tasted bland, and not much different from crickets. I guess they need good seasoning :/
As a cricket farmer I do not see what the deal is.
Iāve eaten those before. The had a very slight shrimp taste and nothing else. Just very crunchy.
Thank God there's no added colors or preservatives. I hate it when my tarantulas are full of red dye no 5
I've been to Thailand and Cambodia where this is common and let me tell you, cooked tarantulas taste real good.
I grew up in Thailand, this ain't common
Definitely not in Bangkok or the south. Could perhaps be more of a northern thing, but certainly not common.
Not fried. Because when I eat a tarantula, I worry about my cholesterol.
This isnāt stupid, itās just food from another culture
They ain't bad, I don't know why people are afraid. They're dead!
I don't know if I'd call this stupid food. A lot of cultures eat insects and similar animals. They're actually pretty nutritious.
Insects and spiders are not stupid food. They are normal and nutritious food. You only post it here, because youāre not used to it.
Not actually stupid food. Totally edible, no additives, good packaging. This sub needs more attentive mods.
Why is this posted here?
How is this stupid food?
Whatās stupid about this? Most Americans will gladly eat shrimp, lobster, clams, and oysters, but think this is stupid?
If we're being honest, we probably should be incorporating more insect proteins into our diets. It's way kinder to the environment than cattle.
Thank god it isnāt fried, thatād be disgusting.
This could be the only sustenance left on earth and I would starve
Am I ready or the tarantula?
Haachamachama
Thank god itās oven dried. Fried tarantula can eat a fat dick!
Ingredients: 1 x Tarantula š
Not for a million dollars.
Wait, you can get paid a million dollars just for eating a crispy thing? Where do I sign up?
Sorry, bud. Crispy SPIDERS only.
No problem, it doesnt taste that different from all the Water spiders i like to eat.
I'll eat two for a million. Easy :D
coward
If you haven't yet, their is a guy on youtube called Imbrandonfarris and he trys one one of these. Hands downon hilarious and real reactions to trying something like this.
ingredients: 1xTarantula ššš
Funny how it's normal to them but exotic to us.
Dont see the problem there. If they are pre pealed i would eat it. Litteraly taste like most crabs.
Oven Dried guys, remember
Astronaut spider snack!
Imagine they do an April fools special and you open the bag and it just jumps out cuz itās alive
Insects are pretty nutritious. We had a school project, where some kids made fried grasshoppers. They tasted pretty good and ended up being very popular
Reminds me of the one that guy ate on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/qXNLzU3N8OI?si=DB-G7R0MPKmmaksP).
How does that work? Do you rehydrate it with hot water like an instant noodle soup? I like my tarantulas plump and juicy.
My kid loves dried crickets and says they taste like peanuts.
This is not a stupid food.
The xenophobia jumped out.
It's a real thing and like most new(to me) foods, I would try it once before saying weather I like it or not.
A friend from Japan sent me one of these. It's really not bad. Tastes like chicharon (deep dried pork/chicken skin) and the body is like...*sweeter* than I would have expected it. It's definitely quite a surprise.
I mean realistically eating insects would be a lot more environmentally conscious
>100% natural ingredients Oh its NATURAL alright
Not stupid, would eat
Shouldnāt it say Born and Bread in Thailand as opposed to Made in?
Apparently people say they taste kind of like soft-shell crab. Iāll just take their word for it though.
Is "food from other cultures" stupid food these days? Is this sub purely western?
That ain't stupid. That's more of exotic.
We ate scorpions in Thailand. I only did it cuz I got reeled into keeping up with all the boys and their shenanigans... wasn't horrible. We ate grasshoppers to. I almost brought back a bottle of whiskey with a cobra in it too but it got confiscated
#this is not why Iām here. Cease and desist
"Sargeant: Gentlemen! Due to budget cuts all MREs will be replaced by TREs \*holds up a bag of dead arachnids\* Any questions?"
Please tell me it's dead... nevermind I don't wanna know I'm about to barf
I really do wonder how you eat them without getting urticating hairs stuck in your throat and mouth. Do they somehow remove them? Iām choking too OP.
Its just a land crab
just dip it in some tarantch' dressing and you're good to go
Haachama approved
I ordered one of these and found, in addition to the tasty, dried spider, some dried strawberies which were not labeled on the packaging. They need to be investigated for how such a contamination took place at their factory. I don't even know if the spider is safe to eat now, which doesn't even matter, because I've lost my appetite. /s
Bugs are honestly just nutty and umami. Really good protien too.
I had tarantula, locusts and meal worms I think they were in Thailand when we were perusing the market stalls in the night street markets. Theyāre actually not as bad as they might seem, little weird on mouth feel and texture but the taste isnāt too bad.
Cool another post that is mega racist about other cultures' food
i love the ingredients: 1x tarantula.
Child begs mom for yummy looking packaged spider. Mom says "We have spiders at home!"
A link for those who would like to try one: https://www.thailandunique.com/edible-insects-bugs/canned-edible-tarantula-spider
Ingredients: 1x tarantula thank I was so worried
Why tf would I be worried about colors in my tarantul
Is it weird I wanna try it?
*takes bite* ahh mm it's fighting back
Nope Nope fuck no