Tarantula Burger in NC? - OT

kl8ton

http://fox17online.com/2018/04/12/nope-north-carolina-restaurant-serving-up-tarantula-burger/

http://www.bullcityburgerandbrewery.com/exotic-meat-month.html

DMW

I'd try it.

johnnyp

Nope.

kl8ton

DMW said:

I'd try it.

I could not. They go on about the grass fed beef, and special cheese, but nothing about the tarantula's diet. 

theyolksonyou

Grass fed beef.

bgebrent

Is it a Waygu tarantula.  Discerning tastes.

zyou11

Bull City City Burger and Brewery is about 5 mins from the house. I'm going to avoid that area for that week. Can't do spiders, especially hairy tarantulas 

theyolksonyou

zyou11 said:

Bull City City Burger and Brewery is about 5 mins from the house. I'm going to avoid that area for that week. Can't do spiders, especially hairy tarantulas 

No worries, they're oven roasted.  They don't bite. 

Wolfpack

Rather get a waterboarded

Theophan

I'm fairly adventurous with food, but no, I really don't think I could even take a bite out of that burger.

g8golfer

Why? 

saluki2007

I would try just about anything, but it would take a lot of money for me to take bite. 

bgebrent

Kinda funny, ate raw surf clam, scallops, tuna, squid, snapper and octopus for lunch.  Not interested in the arachnid.

HeavyG

Farm raised or wild caught?

Killit_and_Grillit

johnnyp said:

Nope.

@johnnyp

YukonRon

I like the crunch on my burger to be from fresh sweet onions, crisp pickels, and very well done bacon. I am fine without an arachnid.
There may come a day when it shall be necessary to consume tarantulas for my diet, but, that time is not now, nor the foreseeable future.
I am good.

Acn

Thanks to the magic of prime, you could make this yourself on Sunday:

Canned Tarantula

Legume

Acn said:

Thanks to the magic of prime, you could make this yourself on Sunday:

Canned Tarantula

Honestly, the canned spiders have kind of an off taste to me and definitely don’t have the snap of fresh, they’re a bit mushy.

CarolinaCrazy

Bull City Burger is one of the best local burgers around IMO. In April they do "exotic meat month" - ostrich, elk, alligator, snake, even Rocky Mountain Oysters. But this is over the top. no thank you.

I had Cricket tacos at a place in DC recently. That's about as far into the insect/arachnid zone as I'll go.

NC_Egghead

I suppose it’s a little like eating soft shell crabs, which I could devour. This, however, is a big NO.

northGAcock

Kinda like the NC Que.....no thanks!

Teefus

HoustonEgger

Nope Nope Nope

DoubleEgger

Oven roasted? No thanks. I like my tarantulas pickled. 

JohnInCarolina

Haha.  That is actually a pretty good burger place in town.

DMW

I can't see why all you pansies are all eww about this. Grow a set and man up.

jeffwit

DMW said:

I can't see why all you pansies are all eww about this. Grow a set and man up.

Pics or it didn’t happen. 

jeffwit

I’d do it if somebody else bought the burger. 

nolaegghead

Cultural lemmings....funny creatures