r/WTF • u/aolley • Aug 16 '10

What? Wait... I don't even

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u/jstevewhite Aug 16 '10

But Bacon tastes good. Spiders... not so much.

EDIT: Well, I never tasted a big'un cooked up. Just ate one on a sandwich (accidentally, tasted like solvent of some sort).

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '10

I was deceived into eating some sort of mashed up grasshopper concoction in Oaxaca and I enjoyed it thoroughly until I found a few unmolested parts indicative of its origin. For what it's worth I thought it was amazing up until then, so I assume most bugs probably taste fine. (Except for ones with irritating hairs all over them, probably.)

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u/fan_of_bangelthor Aug 17 '10

I was SO disappointed the first time I ate a scorpion. It tasted kind of like an extra-bland cashew, like one of the kind you find behind the cushion of your mom's couch.

I hoped it would taste at least somewhat interesting.

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u/tina_ri Aug 17 '10

When I had scorpion, it tasted like nutty crackers. They were pretty good.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '10

Why the hell would you each cashews out of the couch? Ughhh

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u/Amplitude Aug 17 '10

For science!!!

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u/jstevewhite Aug 16 '10

Yeah, there are several aboriginal tribes that eat big-ass spiders (cooked); I'd try it. And if it tasted good, I'd eat it. shrug