In which countries can I find spiders as traditional dishes?
I like experiencing different cultures. When I'm travelling I try to be part of the culture. It means I try to meet local people and make friends, as well as understanding the customs and the culture.
Part of the culture is the food. I would like to know where I can find insects to eat, like spiders, as traditional dishes?
Best Answer
You can eat ants in Colombia.
You can eat a whole bunch of different types of creepy crawlies in Thailand.
You can eat locusts in much of southern Africa.
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What country do people eat spiders?
In Cambodia, fried tarantulas are a delicacy. Often rolled in sugar or garlic, the spiders are eaten by the handful out of street vendors' carts by local residents and adventurous tourists alike.Do people eat live spiders?
The belief that we swallow an average of eight spiders in our sleep every year has become so ingrained in popular culture that many people now accept it as fact. The reality, however, is quite different: we swallow no spiders at all.Do they eat spiders in China?
They do the same type of thing in China. You can see the fried spiders on a stick, along with larvae and other unidentifiable (for me) delicacies. The spiders are 5 to a stick and are being sold, at the Donghuamen night market in Beijing.Do spiders have meat?
They eat way more meat than humans do. Love them or fear them, but spiders are hungry little things. All the spiders in the world eat more meat per year than humans do. Spiders scoff between 400 and 800 million metric tones of insect meat and other "prey kill." That's up to twice as much as people eat.Yummy cooking spiders recipe - Cooking skill
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