You can now have fried tarantula as a side with your meal
Updated | By The Workzone with Barney Simon
Soon after fears of the extinction of the arachnids in Cambodia, a restaurant in North Carolina is introducing fried tarantulas as a complement to its burgers.
If you are constantly on the lookout for a bigger, better burger, then this news out of North Carolina is just what you need to hear.
At Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, patrons can now enjoy a "lightly salted and oven baked" tarantula as a topper on a beef burger.
The restaurant introduced the tarantulas, considered a rare delicacy in Cambodia, to the menu as part of it's "exotic meat month" in April.
ALSO READ: In Cambodia, fears tarantula may go off the menu
For a chance at a tarantula-topped burger, patrons have to enter a $30 (R361) raffle. If their name is drawn, they can partake of the limited number of arachnid-inspired sandwiches.
So, what does an oven-baked tarantula taste like? Patrons have described it as "kind of like crab", and also as having a similar texture to potato chips.
That's a wide spectrum of flavours. Would you risk eating a spider to determine the taste for yourself?
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