Firstly, sorry to the arachnaphobes and my
friend Deb who reckons she nearly broke her iPad trying to splat that spider.
But here’s where we were: this is the photo I took, I promise,
not something I found on the web (ha ha ha!!!) as some (yes you Mandy) suggested.
And here’s what they look like fried and served with pepper sauce – far
less impressive.
Ironically, on the kids' menu they had a
dish called Impsy Wimpsy Spider – which was one fried tarantula with chips – I
always though Impsy Wimpsy meant small?? We considered this option but at
$US4.50 for the full serve of three, we thought what the heck and ordered up.
A family of Danes on the next table were
quite jealous. They said they’d run out when they wanted to order them
(which was curious given they were at the restaurant before us...) but, being Christmas Eve
and feeling benevolent, we gave them one of ours.
We tucked into a few legs – E swears she
had leg caught in her braces! – before the man on the family tackled the body
(I caught it all on video). ‘What’s it taste like?’ we all asked. “Chicken!” he
replied, and we all fell about laughing because of course everything foreign tastes
like chicken. Trying to summons some courage, I looked and my legless body and
convinced myself it was just like an olive. I popped it into my mouth, bit
down on the leathery pouch that went ‘squish’ in my mouth….and I had to hastily
remove it before I gagged. I know it was purely psychological, but that didn't help.
Another group of diners strolled past; an
Aussie bloke with a baby on his hip (a symbol of his fertility) and a crowd of
women. “What are they like? I wish I’d ordered them now,” he announced.
“Here!” we offered enthusiastically, “Have
some of ours.”
He picked up a head (and eight eyes??) with
a few legs and straight down the hatch, chewing with a look of consideration,
then “Not bad”. How could he not with such an attractive audience willing him to love
eating spider?
One of his party lent into our table, a beautiful Asian woman with an Australian accent – “I’m actually Cambodian,
and I wouldn’t eat that!”
1 comment:
Loving hearing of your adventures. I've been sleeping with them [ spiders that is] but not eating them. Ugggghhh!
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