Tarantula season has started in Cambodia which means a local delicacy is back on the menu – tarantulas.

Cambodia's rainy season starts in June, which brings with it an increase in tarantulas, which are hunted and then sold to be cooked and eaten. The spiders are found in the countryside and up to 140 can be captured per day by hunters.

The Spiders are prepared with sugar and salt then cooked in hot oil, producing crunchy, salty snacks.

They are popular with locals who prefer them to crickets and silkworms - which are other insects commonly sold in the street markets.

Vendors sell up to 100 tarantulas a day, proving them to be quite popular.
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i think im still yet to eat one, ive eaten everything else from snails to praying mantis here and everything in between, but im trying to remember if i ever had a tarantula

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:58 pm i think im still yet to eat one, ive eaten everything else from snails to praying mantis here and everything in between, but im trying to remember if i ever had a tarantula

Stick with pussy Jamie. Real men eat things that squirm, not crawl.

taabarang wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 3:13 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:58 pm i think im still yet to eat one, ive eaten everything else from snails to praying mantis here and everything in between, but im trying to remember if i ever had a tarantula

Stick with pussy Jamie. Real men eat things that squirm, not crawl.

ill drink to that

I remember reading that most of them are farmed these days.

Tried it a couple of times, not my favorite snack. Probably less dangerous than eating out some rancid bar girl pussy though....

ACH du Gott, Sie sind kein Feinschmecker.

I've seen them at the market... haven't tried one yet but think maybe they're better freshly fried than when they've been sitting for a while and cold?

some adventurous kate twat blogged that it gave her an abcess in her throat but i though maybe it could have been something else

hanno wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 3:38 pm I remember reading that most of them are farmed these days.

Tried it a couple of times, not my favorite snack. Probably less dangerous than eating out some rancid bar girl pussy though....

I'm disappointed. I thought they were all natural and organic. I've eaten some legs, but I'm working my way up to the body which is a bit more of a challenge.

The tastes in the west differ. But the insects in the east provide nutrition values.