Sunday, June 13, 2010

Spider Goggles

I'm sorry, when I read stories like this (tip to Instapundit), I can't go along with the designation of "developing country." No, this is something out of the Third World--the Tarantula cocktail:

The arachnophobe’s nightmare is made using rice wine, jack fruit and a tarantula – which many Cambodians believe can help your heart and work as an aphrodisiac.

Photographer Tim Whitby, who took the pictures, said the tarantulas are added live to the mixture to preserve their freshness.

Oh yeah, you don't want to have a "stale" spider, now do you? Makes all the difference in the world between disgusting and delicious.

Have these people not heard of beer?