can of scorpions

[Galapoheros]

Because of a previous thread, I got curious and ordered a can of scorpions. Kind of looks like H. loaticus or H. petersii, don't know. Tastes really good . A little like mushrooms and shrimp but... bad, to me anyway. Not much in the can. I don't know if they are cooked, dehydrated or what... I get the feeling the contents is meant to be crushed up and added to other food .

[Mark Newton]

Unbelievable....shocking too....

[JungleGuts]

as i understand you were curious i couldnt justify buying these and supporting who ever makes money off it. Its just unnecessary in all means

[Aillith]

If in some parts of the world it's considered food, I don't see a problem with it.

We in the Western world eat cows, whereas in other parts they see cows as sacred.

So It's not unnecessary, it's a food product - however weird it may seem to us on this side of the world.

I'd never have the stomach to try eating that though. :s I'll stick to chicken and beef thanks

[H. cyaneus]

Jungle, people are going to eat them, even if they don't sell them online. Eating scorpions and tarantulas is almost a culture itself.

Todd, they look pretty crunchy.

Mike

[Galapoheros]

as i understand you were curious i couldnt justify buying these and supporting who ever makes money off it. Its just unnecessary in all means

I mentioned that in the thread it was brought up in. I think what I'm showing here will satisfy anybody else's curiosity on top of disqualifying it as a food source. I mean, even if they did taste good and they knew how to raise them for food, which I'm pretty sure is not the case, it's pretty much a rip off. But a lot of it has to do with culture too.

[Galapoheros]

All of y'all beat my last post. Yeah, it was crunchy. Pretty nasty to me but, I could see how some might like it. Man we are all so biased aren't we... I really almost gagged on some of it trying to eat it. But like mentioned before, if I was brought up eating my scorps instead of my vegtables, I might have liked it. The hardest part was the chela tips, which makes sense of course. Really strong material they have there!

[Mr. Mordax]

Was that all that was in the can? What a ripoff!

[Galapoheros]

Haha, yea. It was a thread of yours that got me curious. Maybe where they are popular, they only use them to flavor food or as a placebo for something . Or maybe just to rip foreigners off .

[Mr. Mordax]

Or maybe just to rip foreigners off .

Yeah . . . I think I'll go with that option.

[Aillith]

Wait - thats the contents of the can BEFORE you'd eaten any?
I thought it was after you'd had a meal of it.

Wow, what a con XD

[Mark Newton]

My problem with it is, just how many canned scorpions are wild caught?

[Galapoheros]

No, that's before I ate any. I took that pic RIGHT after I opened it. The little box the can was in came with a purdy little string around it... the american way. Sharper Image scorps.

[LeilaNami]

I've had chocolate covered crickets, meal worms, and grubs before but I haven't tried scorps yet! Did they have a kind of bitter aftertaste? The stuff I've eaten did.

People here just have an attachment to these animals. It's the same as in the T thread about the culture frying them up and selling them in bags. It's not wrong, just different.

[Mr. Mordax]

About the flavor, I've got a recipe called Scorpion Scallopine. PM me if you want a copy to try it out (it calls for H. arizonis, or however that's spelled).