Mexico City restaurant busted over protected tarantula tacos

Big Chief

Nope, no way Jose. Fish tacos are disgusting to me let alone one with spiders.

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/restaurant-busted-over-protected-tarantula-tacos

Gila

Tarantulas are cool critters.  We used to have one living in our back yard, and watched him grow over the years from a little guy to the size one would expect.  My wife named him Titus.  I guess he either moved or died from old age, because I don't know how long they live.  BTW, my wife names all of the critters that hang out in our yard if they stick around, including lizards.

Big Chief

I remember hot Summers on Fort Sill OK. For family entertainment when the girls were little (1980/81) we would get some Big Gulps/Slurpee s and head to the boundary road around the reservation.

Hot as blazes and the AC wasn't working on my 69 Skylark. Late afternoons there would be hundreds of tarantulas on the road and you couldn't help hitting them if you tried there was so many. Anyhow, like running over frogs, you could feel and hear when they got squished....................windows down and all.............clump...... clump..........kinda fun.  Good ole days, I reckon.

tennmike

Back in 1981 I was traveling through OK the first week of July. I was heading towards OKC and it was dark on I-40. There must have been a tarantula migration going on; the road was carpeted with tarantulas for miles. If I'd had a flat I'd have driven on it right into OKC before I stopped. When I got to OKC I ran the Subaru FE through a car wash, TWICE. That got most of the 'stuff' off the undercarriage and wheel wells. Seeing what was inside them, that is one 'delicacy' I'll pass.

Fisheadgib

In the late 80's to early 90's when I lived near Fort Worth, there was an area on Jacksboro highway north of town that would have a tarantula migration and there would be so many squashed spiders on the road that it would be slimy. I had 3/4 of an acre in Crow!ey and had a sizable tarantula colony in my yard.