Good day SuperForesters!
I’m back from a two-week adventure in Cambodia (with a few days spent in Vietnam and Thailand). I had a blast and will write more about my trip in one of those journal-style entries. For now, I’ll share a valuable lesson I picked up while away from home: If you are afraid of spiders, there is no cure more effective than to hold spiders.
Exhibit A
Not in a million years did I imagine myself holding a live tarantula. To my relief, it remained rather still in my palm, only once crawling to investigate the top side of my hand. Back to my lesson learnt: If, after this, you are still paralysed with fear at the mere sight of an eight-legged spidey, there is little else to do but eat one.
Exhibit B
It was very crunchy, salty, the legs were a lot more palatable than the body, which wasn’t so much gooey but firm-ish (similar consistency of tofu with a crisp outer shell). The body contains spider eggs that are supposedly good for you (is it plausible that a clutter of baby tarantulas have made a new home in my belly?).
Happy New Year,
April
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