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You're dining in the Amazon rain forest this evening and find your choice for diner is Spiders or beetles. Which will it be?

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unwirklich
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Marked as Best! November 13, 2009 08:07 AM
Beetles.

Not because I find either one less disgusting than the other but because spiders are more likely to be poisonous or to inflect bites during capture. I'm not bug expert and I'd say I have less chance of getting a deadly bug going for beetles.

For instance... this bad boy..

http://datalocker.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/dona5.jpg

http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/venanimals/ven_spidbrazwand.html

"The Brazilian Wandering spider appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 for being the most venomous animal."

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Brazilian_wandering_spider

"Two species (P. reidyi and P. boliviensis) are found from southern Central America
Central America. Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
to the Amazon region, while one species (P. fera) is restricted to the Amazon."

Yeah, give me the beetle.
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thebandit
thebandit
November 13, 2009 01:33 AM
Beetles. Definitely. I wouldn't say I'm arachnophobic -- I quite like the idea of spiders while alive, they get rid of much more irritating bugs -- but the thought of eating one is just repulsive.

Why don't beetles repulse me as much? Honestly, I've thought about it and I don't know. Maybe because I've heard of people eating them before. (Apparently they're like nuts. Yes, you needed to know that.) Maybe it's just because I picture a tarantula as the spider. I don't know, but there you go.
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cmajaski
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November 13, 2009 01:38 AM
I'd choose beetles, just seems like there's more to them than a spider. I watch a lot of Food Network and am amazed at how good they make some of that stuff sound and look. Recently it was crickets and those things looked so good...or I was crazy hungry, I'm not sure.

I'm pretty open to new foods and like to think I would try anything. I don't think I'd have a problem with something that was actually prepared as a meal. It's different if you have to just pick it up off of the ground and eat it. To me, anyway.
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