Talk:Fried spider

message: I know spiders are not insects, but making a separate "Spiders as food" category is silly, from a food standpoint, Insects as food is the category they should go in.Tubezone 20:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They simply aren't insects, and trying to cast them as such reflects some sort of POV. Maybe we should have a parent category: Arthropods as food? Yes? —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 20:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That crossed my mind as well. But arthropods include items like lobsters and shrimp. Classification of animals as cuisine does not always follow their scientific classification, I think you can think of a few examples of that. Tubezone 20:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Arthropods also include crabs, and several sources have mentioned that these are similar in taste and form to soft-shell crabs. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 20:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so let's say "Insects as food" were renamed "Bugs as food". Would that be acceptable?Tubezone 15:08, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure how global the slang "bugs" is -- the concept of that rough grouping itself might be a bit western-centric. It feels too slangy to be encyclopdic. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 16:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, we're talking about a distinction as a food item here, not a biological classification. "Non-seafood Exoskeletal Creatures As Food" sounds a bit contorted and and unneccesarily complex IMHO. Tubezone 16:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You have a POV that spiders and insects are the same thing as a food item. That's OK -- it's a fair enough POV to have -- but you should try to realize that others, including me, actually, don't share that POV. Since these are matters of opinion, value, and point-of-view, the best course for the encyclopedia is to remain within more clear-cut scientific groupings, even when talking about food items. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 16:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Insects as food

message: I may have seen some outdoors TV show where the guy catches a spider to eat, and said yuck it was filled with pus. Since spiders fill their stomachs with the inner juices of their victims, do you have to drain tarantulas' stomachs first before eating them? Rakovsky (talk) 05:39, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're probably talking about Bear Grylls. He uses a lot of "colorful language" to describe the various critters he chows down on. He doesn't literally mean the spiders are full of pus, it's just that the runny and disgusting goo that the raw arachnids were full of (organs, hemolymph, etc) was like having a mouthful of pus.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.13.82.22 (talk) 11:40, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Drain the Pus First?

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message: Haplopelma albostriatum has a proper page, please fix internal link. --188.153.38.159 (talk) 11:51, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. 88.97.48.225 (talk) 22:28, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haplopelma albostriatum 

message: Didn't this dish originate during the Pol Pot era, because of the lack of food?ItsRainingCatsAndDogsAndMen (talk) 11:30, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pol Pot of Spiders