Restaurant busted over serving protected tarantula tacos
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Fancy a tarantula taco for a cool $27? Not so fast, Mexican authorities say.
A Mexico City market restaurant recently put the arachnids on its menu and posted a video on Facebook showing a chef torching one until blackened.
The only problem: The Mexican red rump tarantula is a protected species.
The federal environmental protection agency said Tuesday it was alerted to the situation via social media and seized four tarantula corpses that were ready to be served up on tortillas.
The tarantula tacos were apparently on offer for 500 pesos, or 50 times the price of a basic street taco.
The restaurant's menu also features other creepy-crawlies such as grasshoppers, worms and ant eggs, which have a long tradition in Mexican cuisine, and scorpions, which are less common.
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I understand the German orange trump snake in the grass is also a protected feces.
Butt seriously, I understand Trump truly enjoys the la lengua en el culo peludo ruso tacos.
Really? Bringing up Trump on a story about Tarantula tacos? Seek help.
It you can't have fun with tacos, what can you have fun with?
Okay, can I make a Manafort joke?
I kid. Deliberation's in its third day. His butt may be safe, but there are tons of tarantulas in prison!
People were paying to eat those? Yeesh!
i have to agree - i don't think i would be so adventurous with my taste buds
Those poor spiders
Caution, explicit photos !
Omigawd. I never put anything round and hairy in my mouth. Maybe stubbly, but never hairy!
Not too interested in tarantula tortillas.
Now on the other hand, wouldn't mind some hot, spicy bbq scorpions.
Looking at your lovely avatar, it appears you gotcha some hot and spicy ... !
mmmmmm. Very spicy and tasty desert.
That's what the tarantulas are supposed to eat. Don't starve the tarantulas
Actually, according to the video I watched last night, it is the other way around.
Interesting vid.
Do you have any idea how much I hate those fucking things?
I'm getting creeped out just watching this video
LOL.
Sorry, that is why they belong on the bbq.
Crispy.
Oh, for goodness sake. You'll sound like a bunch of whiny little kids...Man up (or woman up) as the case may be.
So a tarantula taco, BFD...High in protein, great for survival needs. Bugs of all kinds, including spiders are high in protein and a staple of indigenous people and ''snake eaters''..(look it up)...
One of my favorites is the Witchetty grub of outback Australia..Excellent when roasted over an open fire in the out back. Especially good with a middie of Fosters the night before the Camel races in Alice Springs..
If your in SE Asia, I highly recommend the Maeng Da (water bug soup). Excellent with the Thai beer, Singha.
This is a Witchetty grub.
When I was living in Australia and would hear an American tourist as the waiter about ''Balmain Bugs'' on the menu and they start whining. I'd go over to their table and tell them to grow the frick up. Quit being the ugly American tourist..It's a bug for goodness sake and very tasty I might add.
There was a great place in Farmers Bay, (Sydney Area) named the Wooloomooloo Inn that served a really tasty Balmain Bug. Ah, the memories.
This is a Balmain Bug...
Yikes. That bug looks like a cross between a lobster and a horseshoe crab.
LOL, close but no cigar.
Tasty.
I have seen both of those, not in person. In the situation, I would down them in an instant.