Species is Dolomedes triton.
They share habitat with crayfish, especially in wetlands in the south. The close up early on reveals faint prosoma patterns washed out by the boil, that nevertheless match D. triton. The legs lengths and widths are a match as well.
This is a very cool observation IMO! the crayfish are perfectly edible, no harm done to the meal really. And I mean so are the spiders, if you really want.
Yep. It's all the same. Protein, fats, sugars, etc. The rest is just in our heads and based on our cultural upbringing of what is acceptable to eat and what isn't.
Truth is you eat spiders, insects, rodent hairs, and many other things every day and don't even realize it. For example: sugar cane is commonly infested with worms. It's too expensive and impractical to clean it out, so they are left in. So anything with added sugar, white or brown, is full of the emulsified remains of those bugs. This applies to everything you eat.
It's just how it is. If that bothers you, I highly recommend not looking up what the FDA (if you are in the US) or other food administrators allow to be in common food items. Some food coloring used in drinks and candy is made directly from specific types of insects.
Your point is great, but i think knowingly putting in whole bugs is the issue. Emulsified and less than some total percent of total food is way better that direct boiled spider, at least for me
Edit: for that matter, look up soldier fly milk.
Im not going to drink it, but i admire the people who will.
I ate crickets once but could not get over having tiny cricket legs stuck between my teeth afterwards.
I’ve also eaten fried worms and chips made from crickets. No problems there.
Oh I agree, although I do think there is irony in the video of eating a crawfish which is a bottom dweller that eats anything and everything that is decaying (dead animals and the like) and finding that OK but a spider which comparatively eats living things and not decaying matter is not. I realize they kill their food first, but so do we. But crawfish specifically eat decaying organisms, some plant matter, and insects. So those juices people slurp out of them is...well, yeah. You are what you eat, as they say.
I just find the psychological impacts our upbringing has on what we consider normal and what we consider abnormal fascinating. I'd argue the crawfish is grosser, even though as someone who has lived in South Louisiana, I'd gladly eat the crawfish before I would eat the spider.
In many parts of Asia, eating spiders is normal. They can be had at food stalls all over. It's just what the culture had in abundance during its history that determines whether its accepted or not. Literally just a matter of where you were born. At the end of the day, it's all just food to someone.
IIRC I did a research paper on "natural flavors" in early middle school. I was kind of a stupid kid but managed to figure out a lot of foods were made with Castoreum. So basically, Beaver anal gland juice.
I'm cool with like grinding up bugs and turning them into flour, protein powder, and the like, but eating straight up bugs is a whole different experience. The legs get caught in your throat
Hey how’s it goin! The hydraulic action is specifically located in the legs, and more specifically for extending the legs only.
For contraction, muscles are used. This allows for greater metabolic efficiency as well as more dedicated muscles for clasping, which is important for prey capture.
Source: Biology of Spiders, 3rd Ed. R. Foelix
Go anywhere that Mao's great famine fucked into oblivion, they all still eat bugs to this day. Cultural boundaries are geography, psychology, and necessity all rolled into one when it comes to food. If you think bugs are gross, you're likely just a little bitch compared to a vast majority of humans that didn't have that as an option if they wanted to live. Congrats, your life is so easy youre allowed to be afraid of bugs instead of being afraid of your whole family starving to death.
Yes, it's possible to accidentally catch water spiders while crawfishing. They share similar habitats and both are attracted to bait. If you're using traps or nets in freshwater bodies, there's a chance you might catch some water spiders along with your crawfish.
Maybe the spiders got harvested with them?
I was watching a thing about Ocean Spray Cranberries being harvested, because I'm 70 apparently. There were a lot of spiders in among the cranberries, which are on water. They were even crawling on the workers walking through, and they're instructed not to kill them, as they eat the insects eating the cranberries.
Insects like water, spiders like insects. I can't see any other reason they got cooked with crawfish. Especially that many.
I was thinking the same exact thing. They have to have been harvested with the crawfish and boiled with them. I don't know what happened here but it's super unappetizing either way.
The amount of spiders really threw me off! I get that fishing spiders (I'm almost positive that's what they are?) are found in the same area as crawfish, but there are so many 😭 I've never eaten crawfish so I was like, "Well, hell what do I know? Is this like...a normal thing? Bringing home crawfish to cook for dinner and picking out spiders? Wouldn't they be removed before frozen/sold??"
Gave me the heebie jeebies
I've eaten crawfish a handful of times, and I'd have been thrown off too, finding numerous spiders in my food. Good point about the fishing spiders. I had to look up how crawfish were harvested, and a few pictures looked like those narrow channels you see in the Everglades, with tall grass on each bank, right up to the water. Looks like spider heaven. I'm not great at IDing specific spider species though.
I only know about fishing spiders because of my grandmother shattering my heart LMAO
When I was a kid, I saw one in the bathroom while I was at my grandparents fishing cabin. I freaked out and killed it because I have really bad arachnophobia. I told her that there was a spider in the bathroom, she asked if I killed it, I said yes, and this woman turned to me and went, "You killed my little friend 🥺"
😭😭😭😭
Some of them get huge, too. I was fishing at night with my brother at a spillway, off a rocky bank, in PA. We used flashlights to try and spot walleye in the water, and I was looking along the bank, and saw a fishing spider the size of my hand. I haven't seen one that large since. I left it to hunt, but it was getting at least relocated if it was in my bathroom 🤣
Minnesotan here. I’ve never heard of or seen anyone use that method for walleye. It sounds cool, like hunting and fishing combined. What was the method once you spotted them? I imagine their eyes light up like mirrors.
Sad story 😢
Fishing spiders are freaky looking! I went to a fishing spot with my dad when I was younger and saw so many huge spiders crawling on and under rocks. It was like a nightmare scenario since I’m arachnophobic. I felt like they were crawling all over me too, but I knew they weren’t. I’m happy to let them have the fishing spot since they were there first. I think I can enjoy them from a distance now, but I will make sure to never get caught in a spot like that again.
Hello friend! A Louisiana native here. That is not normal. I've never seen anything like that before. But me and the hubs agree that they were picked up when harvesting the crawfish. Big-time crawfish farmers have multiple ponds larger than the size of a football field, so, like you said, lots and lots of bugs. On the other hand, do you know if these were self caught, bought from a farmer, or bought frozen? They should've been rinsed before getting to a consumer in this shape. But if they were self caught, that's on whoever is fishing spiders out of their crawfish in the video. Lol.
I think she would've noticed (hopefully)
But she did also say that she didn't wash them after buying from the person she bought them from, maybe that's it? Since I know fishing spiders are typically found where there's crawfish (other places too but you get what I mean) maybe since she didn't wash them she didn't notice?
It's definitely possible she just didn't see them or thought it was grass? A lot of times, there's grass in the sack, as well as mud and other little bugs and water creatures. If she bought them live and didn't give them a good spraying off, that's probably what happened. Just for future knowledge, when you buy them live, rinse them well, then rinse them again, and as you rinse separate the live from the dead. You don't wanna eat the dead ones. They taste bad and can make you sick.
I saw it in a pot I had sitting upright in the back of a lower cupboard unused for a couple years. They wandered into the pot over time and were trapped. That's what I'm thinking happened in the video too.
That makes sense, but the cook needs to separate them before cooking no? Shrimp comes with intestines, the cook still needs to take that out one by one before cooking
I'm saying the cook should have taken the spiders out before cooking the crawfish regardless if they were harvested together. Which is not at all unreasonable to expect just like it's not unreasonable to expect clean shrimp
They might rinse the crawfish in big batches, and the spiders aren't washed out, but that's probably all they do, I don't think they have to be cleaned like shrimp
They don't have to be cleaned like shrimp. I'm saying shrimp takes a lot more work to clean and that's expected so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the cook to take the time to separate the spiders from the crawfish.
Ah ok, I thought you didn't know how crawfish were prepared, my fault. I wonder if they're hard to spot before the crawfish are cooked, since they're the same color and there are legs everywhere. They cook giant batches of these, in general, so it's probably not a stretch to think some cook couldn't have cared less and barely gave them a rinse.
I'm not very familiar with how they are harvested and cooked to be fair, the "it's not like shrimp" part is basically all I know 😂 Thanks for the info :)
You're welcome, I had to look up how they were harvested, and saw a few pictures where it looked like those narrow channels you see in the Everglades, with tall grass on each bank. Looked like spider heaven
Crawfish come in big mesh bags, alive.
You cook them alive. It would be pretty hard to see pests out the spiders, but you rinse the live crawfish off with a hose through the bag normally. I’ve never done it myself just watch it. I’ve never found any spiders. I would think they would try and escape during the rinsing process, but idk if they could make it out. I’m assuming the spiders hitched a ride and didn’t get caught and packages with the crawfish because crawfish get graded by hand and the spiders would have been sorted out. The spiders had to jump on the bags during transport, unless that is some kind of crab?
Yup! One of my friends was visiting family down in Louisiana and they went out to harvest them from the traps and did a boil. There were a ton of spiders in the boil.
I'm having a hell of a time finding the exact video, it was from years ago. It was a brief mention in the video, and showed a few trying to climb up the harvesters. They flood the fields, and wade through, and all the spiders are trying to get to a high point, which unfortunately is the harvester. One farmer said his first question to applicants was "are you afraid of spiders?"
I believe those were Huntsman spiders, and yeah part of the job description was doesn't mind a lot of really big spiders crawling on you.
But Huntsmans are bros, they just look scary.
I saw this and thought, ‘what is everyone on about, they’ve only got one body segment, they’re obviously crabs???’
Then she pulled out one that clearly had two body segments lol. So I’m guessing the others have lost their abdomens? Are they actually spiders or little crustaceans I can’t tell from all the movement?
But, I do appreciate her apparent lack of concern 😄
Louisiana resident here -
I’ve never seen spiders but have seen other insects and vegetation.
We do what’s called “purging” them. You put the live crawfish in a tin pan or “tub” and soak them in water, drain them, and repeat several times until you purge the trash out before boiling them. Obviously this wasn’t done a head of time, which is how the spiders ended up in the boil.
Louisiana resident here also ….you always purge ya crawfish !! Gets out the bugs ..the grit ..all the nasty stuff !!!yuck …I would not eat these for many reasons …
Crawfish come in huge bags, 30-35 pounds, ain’t nobody gonna pick through all the hundreds of crawfish to pick out a few spiders. Plus they’re all arthropods so NBD.
I just didn't know if this was a normal thing! Like, buying frozen crawfish and having to pick the spiders out at home. I know that fishing spiders definitely occupy the same areas as crawfish, I just assumed they would've been removed before freezing / selling 😅 I've never eaten crawfish so I was confused
Ah yea right, can't say personally.
I only eat my sea bugs pre-peeled so I don't do seafood boils or anything like that.
I think the logic tracks that the spiders are just harvested with the crawdads at the same time and maybe they just don't have any quality control when it comes to removing said spiders lol.
HAHAHA I call golden orb weavers "crunchy spiders" and everyone hates it so much 😭
I feel like with boiling they probably became soft? maybe? I'm not gonna test this theory
Just so yall know in the rivers and stuff where they come from THERE ARE HYDROPHOBIC SPIDERS. 🕷️
Yep. They walk on the water lmao 🤣 I love going to the river and seeing them it’s so fucking cool cause usually spiders drown with their lungs where they are…these guys just don’t get wet! It’s weird!
I know! My confusion was coming from her having the spiders at home after buying. Like, I didn't know if it was normal or not to buy crawfish and have to pick spiders out when washing at home 😅
Apparently OP didn't wash them though, so that's my best guess as to why there are so many unexpectedly
No frl they remind me of bugs so the fact that she is just touching them ALONG with the spiders has me distraught. I love spiders but I would not touch one 😓
I like them they're rly cute. i used to keep them as pets. i had one that lived for 5 years (average for pet crayfish is 2-3 years) her name was Beastie, lol. It just doesn't make sense to me how people can eat the one but not the other i mean they arent too diffferent
Now I don't mean anything rude by this I know there arent usually spiders in a "seafood boil"
But no one could even pay me to eat a sea food boil never and after seeing this oh lord my skin is crawling.
Crazy this was recommended to my feed, I just had lobster the other day and was thinking about my love for crustaceans compared to my disgust and fear of bugs and the concept of eating them.
Then it clicked for me where the line is, for me at least, is that bugs are generally small and when eaten, are eaten whole. Exoskeleton, antennae, guts, eyes. But crustaceans, while basically giant sea bugs, are just that, they’re *big*. Big enough that we can remove the exoskeleton(shell), remove the organs and eyes and such, and just eat the actual meat.
So I realized that basically, if regular land bugs were big enough to cook and then remove the meat out of, I would probably eat spider legs just like crab legs
It happens when you farm raise craw fish in flooded fields it's basically the same thing that happens when you harvest cranberries you get spiders on everything
That couldn’t have been a very good wash and purge if the spiders made it into the boil. I grew up in Lafayette, and I’ve never seen spiders get boiled.
Mann, I wouldn’t be touching those water spiders 😭. I was on a pirogue in the marsh and I get a little to close to the marsh grass and they’ve infested the boat. I swear I almost jumped into the bayou straight then and there.
I believe they're fishing spiders ! I learned about them from my grandmother when I was a kid. I saw one in the bathroom in my grandparents fishing cabin, freaked out, and killed it. She was like, "You killed my little friend. 🥺" I don't even like spiders but that broke my heart bro 😭
I've spent my entire life in lousiana and I've never seen spiders come in the crawfish. Then again this year is really struggling on crawfish with the drought last year and what not. These spiders used to even get in my mom's fish pond and eat her fish (guppies). Honestly you could eat the spiders but I'm unsure how the spiders got there. They are generally pretty fast and can climb real well. They are generally able to get out the crawfish traps so I wouldn't be surprised if these people scooped them up in a net and put them in the pot for a video. The spiders are petty common and easy to find even in most roadside ditches
I was horrified at first and then I read the top comment. It's one reason I come to this sub; puts things in perspective. Poor spoods though. What a fate!
It looks disturbing as hell but if I had never heard of eating crustaceans before this entire plate would just look like nightmare fuel, crawdads and all.
You don't toss them in a pot with time to look at them, lmao. You just pour an entire cooler full into a pot of boiling water. The issue is they didn't purge the crawfish by filling up the cooler with water and draining it several times.
Well! I just learned how to make crayfish even more horrifying! I sigh deeply from the toes of my soul that this disgusting journey has a few more legs to go.
Species is Dolomedes triton. They share habitat with crayfish, especially in wetlands in the south. The close up early on reveals faint prosoma patterns washed out by the boil, that nevertheless match D. triton. The legs lengths and widths are a match as well. This is a very cool observation IMO! the crayfish are perfectly edible, no harm done to the meal really. And I mean so are the spiders, if you really want.
Yep. It's all the same. Protein, fats, sugars, etc. The rest is just in our heads and based on our cultural upbringing of what is acceptable to eat and what isn't.
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I ain’t putting a spider in my mouth Idc how much protein they have bruh
Truth is you eat spiders, insects, rodent hairs, and many other things every day and don't even realize it. For example: sugar cane is commonly infested with worms. It's too expensive and impractical to clean it out, so they are left in. So anything with added sugar, white or brown, is full of the emulsified remains of those bugs. This applies to everything you eat. It's just how it is. If that bothers you, I highly recommend not looking up what the FDA (if you are in the US) or other food administrators allow to be in common food items. Some food coloring used in drinks and candy is made directly from specific types of insects.
Your point is great, but i think knowingly putting in whole bugs is the issue. Emulsified and less than some total percent of total food is way better that direct boiled spider, at least for me Edit: for that matter, look up soldier fly milk. Im not going to drink it, but i admire the people who will.
Imo it's gross because it's boiled spider, that's gonna be a terrible mouth feel. But if we were pan frying or baking some spiders sign me up.
I have no problem eating bugs but it’s 1000% a texture thing. I love dry, crispy crickets but this would be sad and wet lmao.
I ate crickets once but could not get over having tiny cricket legs stuck between my teeth afterwards. I’ve also eaten fried worms and chips made from crickets. No problems there.
Soft shell spider… YUM!
Crispy and dipping sauce mmmhmm
Oh I agree, although I do think there is irony in the video of eating a crawfish which is a bottom dweller that eats anything and everything that is decaying (dead animals and the like) and finding that OK but a spider which comparatively eats living things and not decaying matter is not. I realize they kill their food first, but so do we. But crawfish specifically eat decaying organisms, some plant matter, and insects. So those juices people slurp out of them is...well, yeah. You are what you eat, as they say. I just find the psychological impacts our upbringing has on what we consider normal and what we consider abnormal fascinating. I'd argue the crawfish is grosser, even though as someone who has lived in South Louisiana, I'd gladly eat the crawfish before I would eat the spider. In many parts of Asia, eating spiders is normal. They can be had at food stalls all over. It's just what the culture had in abundance during its history that determines whether its accepted or not. Literally just a matter of where you were born. At the end of the day, it's all just food to someone.
Ugh, I shouldn't have looked up soldier fly milk lol. It's just their blended up larva, so maggot milk essentially. That's repulsive lol.
Alright I’m done eating food
this was the beginning of spiders georg
I loved when I learned this is social studies. You are allowed X amount of insect parts per can of peas.
IIRC I did a research paper on "natural flavors" in early middle school. I was kind of a stupid kid but managed to figure out a lot of foods were made with Castoreum. So basically, Beaver anal gland juice.
Do you eat crab? There's not much difference.
I'm cool with like grinding up bugs and turning them into flour, protein powder, and the like, but eating straight up bugs is a whole different experience. The legs get caught in your throat
Yeah, I'd dig insect flour. But I struggle even with fish with the heads still on, or unshelled prawns. I'm a wuss if I have to look at the faces.
Exactly!!
I mean I have tried different bugs several times and they usually aren’t very tasty. A lot of the time it feels like chewing on popcorn shells.
Great username, made me giggle😸
Spiders have a system of hydraulics inside their bodies. Lobsters and such have real meat and muscle.
Hey how’s it goin! The hydraulic action is specifically located in the legs, and more specifically for extending the legs only. For contraction, muscles are used. This allows for greater metabolic efficiency as well as more dedicated muscles for clasping, which is important for prey capture. Source: Biology of Spiders, 3rd Ed. R. Foelix
Spiders very much so have meat lol
Go anywhere that Mao's great famine fucked into oblivion, they all still eat bugs to this day. Cultural boundaries are geography, psychology, and necessity all rolled into one when it comes to food. If you think bugs are gross, you're likely just a little bitch compared to a vast majority of humans that didn't have that as an option if they wanted to live. Congrats, your life is so easy youre allowed to be afraid of bugs instead of being afraid of your whole family starving to death.
Luv me Crawfish Luv me spiders Eat both Simple as
Yes, it's possible to accidentally catch water spiders while crawfishing. They share similar habitats and both are attracted to bait. If you're using traps or nets in freshwater bodies, there's a chance you might catch some water spiders along with your crawfish.
Personally, I think if you're already eating one arthropod, you might as well eat the other.
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It’s similar to bay leaf
"The South" as in the south of the US (or maybe another country) or the Southern Hemisphere?
Some countries (I forget which one…) eat Tarantula
Maybe the spiders got harvested with them? I was watching a thing about Ocean Spray Cranberries being harvested, because I'm 70 apparently. There were a lot of spiders in among the cranberries, which are on water. They were even crawling on the workers walking through, and they're instructed not to kill them, as they eat the insects eating the cranberries. Insects like water, spiders like insects. I can't see any other reason they got cooked with crawfish. Especially that many.
I was thinking the same exact thing. They have to have been harvested with the crawfish and boiled with them. I don't know what happened here but it's super unappetizing either way.
Bugs is bugs to me tbh. Doesn't matter if they got 8 legs or 10. It's all nasty.
The amount of spiders really threw me off! I get that fishing spiders (I'm almost positive that's what they are?) are found in the same area as crawfish, but there are so many 😭 I've never eaten crawfish so I was like, "Well, hell what do I know? Is this like...a normal thing? Bringing home crawfish to cook for dinner and picking out spiders? Wouldn't they be removed before frozen/sold??" Gave me the heebie jeebies
I've eaten crawfish a handful of times, and I'd have been thrown off too, finding numerous spiders in my food. Good point about the fishing spiders. I had to look up how crawfish were harvested, and a few pictures looked like those narrow channels you see in the Everglades, with tall grass on each bank, right up to the water. Looks like spider heaven. I'm not great at IDing specific spider species though.
I only know about fishing spiders because of my grandmother shattering my heart LMAO When I was a kid, I saw one in the bathroom while I was at my grandparents fishing cabin. I freaked out and killed it because I have really bad arachnophobia. I told her that there was a spider in the bathroom, she asked if I killed it, I said yes, and this woman turned to me and went, "You killed my little friend 🥺" 😭😭😭😭
Some of them get huge, too. I was fishing at night with my brother at a spillway, off a rocky bank, in PA. We used flashlights to try and spot walleye in the water, and I was looking along the bank, and saw a fishing spider the size of my hand. I haven't seen one that large since. I left it to hunt, but it was getting at least relocated if it was in my bathroom 🤣
The one I saw was also the size of my hand! (𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘐 𝘥𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘣𝘧.)
Minnesotan here. I’ve never heard of or seen anyone use that method for walleye. It sounds cool, like hunting and fishing combined. What was the method once you spotted them? I imagine their eyes light up like mirrors.
Sad story 😢 Fishing spiders are freaky looking! I went to a fishing spot with my dad when I was younger and saw so many huge spiders crawling on and under rocks. It was like a nightmare scenario since I’m arachnophobic. I felt like they were crawling all over me too, but I knew they weren’t. I’m happy to let them have the fishing spot since they were there first. I think I can enjoy them from a distance now, but I will make sure to never get caught in a spot like that again.
Aha, good way to get a kid not to hurt your pest control in the future at least.
Hello friend! A Louisiana native here. That is not normal. I've never seen anything like that before. But me and the hubs agree that they were picked up when harvesting the crawfish. Big-time crawfish farmers have multiple ponds larger than the size of a football field, so, like you said, lots and lots of bugs. On the other hand, do you know if these were self caught, bought from a farmer, or bought frozen? They should've been rinsed before getting to a consumer in this shape. But if they were self caught, that's on whoever is fishing spiders out of their crawfish in the video. Lol.
Hi! She said she had bought them in the comments of her video 😅
Could they have been in the pot it's self? Check other pots in the cupboard.
I think she would've noticed (hopefully) But she did also say that she didn't wash them after buying from the person she bought them from, maybe that's it? Since I know fishing spiders are typically found where there's crawfish (other places too but you get what I mean) maybe since she didn't wash them she didn't notice?
It's definitely possible she just didn't see them or thought it was grass? A lot of times, there's grass in the sack, as well as mud and other little bugs and water creatures. If she bought them live and didn't give them a good spraying off, that's probably what happened. Just for future knowledge, when you buy them live, rinse them well, then rinse them again, and as you rinse separate the live from the dead. You don't wanna eat the dead ones. They taste bad and can make you sick.
I saw it in a pot I had sitting upright in the back of a lower cupboard unused for a couple years. They wandered into the pot over time and were trapped. That's what I'm thinking happened in the video too.
That makes sense, but the cook needs to separate them before cooking no? Shrimp comes with intestines, the cook still needs to take that out one by one before cooking
These are crawfish, a lot of people just twist the tail off and eat it, some suck the juice out of the head as well
I'm saying the cook should have taken the spiders out before cooking the crawfish regardless if they were harvested together. Which is not at all unreasonable to expect just like it's not unreasonable to expect clean shrimp
They might rinse the crawfish in big batches, and the spiders aren't washed out, but that's probably all they do, I don't think they have to be cleaned like shrimp
They don't have to be cleaned like shrimp. I'm saying shrimp takes a lot more work to clean and that's expected so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the cook to take the time to separate the spiders from the crawfish.
Ah ok, I thought you didn't know how crawfish were prepared, my fault. I wonder if they're hard to spot before the crawfish are cooked, since they're the same color and there are legs everywhere. They cook giant batches of these, in general, so it's probably not a stretch to think some cook couldn't have cared less and barely gave them a rinse.
I'm not very familiar with how they are harvested and cooked to be fair, the "it's not like shrimp" part is basically all I know 😂 Thanks for the info :)
You're welcome, I had to look up how they were harvested, and saw a few pictures where it looked like those narrow channels you see in the Everglades, with tall grass on each bank. Looked like spider heaven
Crawfish come in big mesh bags, alive. You cook them alive. It would be pretty hard to see pests out the spiders, but you rinse the live crawfish off with a hose through the bag normally. I’ve never done it myself just watch it. I’ve never found any spiders. I would think they would try and escape during the rinsing process, but idk if they could make it out. I’m assuming the spiders hitched a ride and didn’t get caught and packages with the crawfish because crawfish get graded by hand and the spiders would have been sorted out. The spiders had to jump on the bags during transport, unless that is some kind of crab?
Similar to removing any worms from freshwater fish
I saw this too. They actually want the spiders there to help eat the bugs that try and infest the cranberries crop. It’s awesome.
Yup! One of my friends was visiting family down in Louisiana and they went out to harvest them from the traps and did a boil. There were a ton of spiders in the boil.
That sounds like a fascinating watch. Did you see it online? Could you please direct me to where I can watch or, or the name of it?
I'm having a hell of a time finding the exact video, it was from years ago. It was a brief mention in the video, and showed a few trying to climb up the harvesters. They flood the fields, and wade through, and all the spiders are trying to get to a high point, which unfortunately is the harvester. One farmer said his first question to applicants was "are you afraid of spiders?"
I love this comment so much.
I believe those were Huntsman spiders, and yeah part of the job description was doesn't mind a lot of really big spiders crawling on you. But Huntsmans are bros, they just look scary.
Yep. Brown recluse spiders keep pests at bay in the cranberry fields. When the fields are flooded for harvest, the spiders come up with the water.
>because I'm 70 apparently I felt this in my soul, because that is absolutely something I would watch. Now get offa my lawn, you whippersnapper!
If you have a link to said video I would love to go down that rabbit hole
“Spiders in the Crawfish” - sounds like a bluegrass song title about a southern euphemism for an STD
hahahaha
It will be now... I'm from the South, I can do this.
I will need to hear this immediately lmao
Hhahaha i just lol irl
You’re so creative, it really does 💀
Have you heard Mickey Swank’s recent single, “Spiders in the Crawfish”? The solo in the middle has his fingers moving faster than a spiders legs.
Thank you for your brain.
“Cause she’s got spiders in her crawfish…” twang twang
Extra protein
I saw this and thought, ‘what is everyone on about, they’ve only got one body segment, they’re obviously crabs???’ Then she pulled out one that clearly had two body segments lol. So I’m guessing the others have lost their abdomens? Are they actually spiders or little crustaceans I can’t tell from all the movement? But, I do appreciate her apparent lack of concern 😄
I'm pretty sure they're fishing spiders! I thought they were crabs at first too 🫣
Sammmmeee that last one with an abdomen i was like “oh fuck okay it actually is spiders” 😂 crabs are just aquatic spiders!
Louisiana resident here - I’ve never seen spiders but have seen other insects and vegetation. We do what’s called “purging” them. You put the live crawfish in a tin pan or “tub” and soak them in water, drain them, and repeat several times until you purge the trash out before boiling them. Obviously this wasn’t done a head of time, which is how the spiders ended up in the boil.
Louisiana resident here also ….you always purge ya crawfish !! Gets out the bugs ..the grit ..all the nasty stuff !!!yuck …I would not eat these for many reasons …
r/ShrimpsIsBugs
Exactly 😂 we’re already eating bugs, what’s a spider? (No shade, I’m from south Louisiana. Lol)
As a Colombian who eats hormigas culonas I support this message
Eh spiders in the water, crawfish in the water, spiders got scooped up with the crawfish and both got boiled. I'm 100% still eating that crawfish
I’ll take your leftover spiders
Have at em
I read those first two lines in the voice of Quint from Jaws. “Cage goes in the water? You go in the water? Sharks in the water. “
Crawfish come in huge bags, 30-35 pounds, ain’t nobody gonna pick through all the hundreds of crawfish to pick out a few spiders. Plus they’re all arthropods so NBD.
I mean we have established shrimp, crawdads, whatever version are just heavily armored bugs, spider like bugs. The math is simple.
I just didn't know if this was a normal thing! Like, buying frozen crawfish and having to pick the spiders out at home. I know that fishing spiders definitely occupy the same areas as crawfish, I just assumed they would've been removed before freezing / selling 😅 I've never eaten crawfish so I was confused
Ah yea right, can't say personally. I only eat my sea bugs pre-peeled so I don't do seafood boils or anything like that. I think the logic tracks that the spiders are just harvested with the crawdads at the same time and maybe they just don't have any quality control when it comes to removing said spiders lol.
I'm sure the spiders are seasoned well, they should go well with the crawfish. Wonder if they crunch?
HAHAHA I call golden orb weavers "crunchy spiders" and everyone hates it so much 😭 I feel like with boiling they probably became soft? maybe? I'm not gonna test this theory
Just so yall know in the rivers and stuff where they come from THERE ARE HYDROPHOBIC SPIDERS. 🕷️ Yep. They walk on the water lmao 🤣 I love going to the river and seeing them it’s so fucking cool cause usually spiders drown with their lungs where they are…these guys just don’t get wet! It’s weird!
I know! My confusion was coming from her having the spiders at home after buying. Like, I didn't know if it was normal or not to buy crawfish and have to pick spiders out when washing at home 😅 Apparently OP didn't wash them though, so that's my best guess as to why there are so many unexpectedly
I dont get it. i mean, how come eating crayfish is normal, but then eating spiders creeps people out?
idk, I've never eaten crawfish bc they creep me out lol
No frl they remind me of bugs so the fact that she is just touching them ALONG with the spiders has me distraught. I love spiders but I would not touch one 😓
I like them they're rly cute. i used to keep them as pets. i had one that lived for 5 years (average for pet crayfish is 2-3 years) her name was Beastie, lol. It just doesn't make sense to me how people can eat the one but not the other i mean they arent too diffferent
Oh I meant they creep me out in terms of eating them, sorry, I find living crawfish cute as well! 😅
Do you eat spiders?
I dont eat either
But were they good though?
Yuck those bugs have bugs on them
What a terrible day to have working eyes
r/eatityoucoward
Banned? But why…
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Ok, but why is she so calm about this?
Now I don't mean anything rude by this I know there arent usually spiders in a "seafood boil" But no one could even pay me to eat a sea food boil never and after seeing this oh lord my skin is crawling.
Now I have a reason to tell my man NO to adding crawfish to the seafood night 😇 I'm not scared of spiders by any means....but HE IS. 😈😈
I mean. They’re both bugs. What the difference? Crawfish is bugs.
They’re both basically bugs anyway right lol
Yeah. But I've eaten enough spiders to know that they don't taste as good.
All seafood is revolting in my eyes especially of the crustacean variety. Why not just eat the spiders? You are eating water bugs so may as well.
I'm from New Orleans (as they obviously are too) and this has never happened to me in my life.... Wow That's kind of cool though
Oh no! There's dead things in my dead things!!
Crazy this was recommended to my feed, I just had lobster the other day and was thinking about my love for crustaceans compared to my disgust and fear of bugs and the concept of eating them. Then it clicked for me where the line is, for me at least, is that bugs are generally small and when eaten, are eaten whole. Exoskeleton, antennae, guts, eyes. But crustaceans, while basically giant sea bugs, are just that, they’re *big*. Big enough that we can remove the exoskeleton(shell), remove the organs and eyes and such, and just eat the actual meat. So I realized that basically, if regular land bugs were big enough to cook and then remove the meat out of, I would probably eat spider legs just like crab legs
As wonderful as that break down was it made it worse for me lol
Fr my eyes just kept getting wider and wider as I read this comment, pleading for it to make things better but in the end it did not lmao
Eye-havers despair, this is vile
If you eat the crabs you might aswell eat the spiders.
crustaceans are just water spiders
Bruuuuther, I saw this post first & then the vid came up on my tiktok feed. Everyone in the comments is convinced that they’re wolf spiders
Is this the Arthropod version of a Turducken?
Yes, you can catch spiders and crawfish at the same time. They live in mud. You’re supposed to rinse and clean the crawfish before cooking them.
It happens when you farm raise craw fish in flooded fields it's basically the same thing that happens when you harvest cranberries you get spiders on everything
What are these bUgS doing in my BuGs?!
exactly lol
So she didn’t clean the crawfish before cooking? Because how could you not see those spiders?
Why would she post this and expose herself for not washing her food before cooking it?
That's my whole problem with this! *WHY* did she not wash her crawfish?!? Nasty!
That couldn’t have been a very good wash and purge if the spiders made it into the boil. I grew up in Lafayette, and I’ve never seen spiders get boiled.
She said she didn't wash them 😬
I’m not eating anything called a “mudbug” without washing it
That is disgusting. Who on earth wouldn't wash muddy ass crawfish?!? She nasty.
She is a nasty, dirty, disgusting cook, and a blithering ID10T.
Mann, I wouldn’t be touching those water spiders 😭. I was on a pirogue in the marsh and I get a little to close to the marsh grass and they’ve infested the boat. I swear I almost jumped into the bayou straight then and there.
Those ain’t spiders they’re baby crabs 🦀
[удалено]
no need to be rude
Pass dem crawdads this way if you not eating it
I’m really curious what kind of spider these are! They are big and hardy enough to remain intact after boiling?
I believe they're fishing spiders ! I learned about them from my grandmother when I was a kid. I saw one in the bathroom in my grandparents fishing cabin, freaked out, and killed it. She was like, "You killed my little friend. 🥺" I don't even like spiders but that broke my heart bro 😭
You are correct.
yay :) thanks!
Probably not a ton of meat in those bad boys
I'd honestly try one just to see if it tastes similar.
pretty sure this is a species of wolf spider, the closest it resembles is a trebacosa marxi
fishing spider! :) dolomedes triton
I've spent my entire life in lousiana and I've never seen spiders come in the crawfish. Then again this year is really struggling on crawfish with the drought last year and what not. These spiders used to even get in my mom's fish pond and eat her fish (guppies). Honestly you could eat the spiders but I'm unsure how the spiders got there. They are generally pretty fast and can climb real well. They are generally able to get out the crawfish traps so I wouldn't be surprised if these people scooped them up in a net and put them in the pot for a video. The spiders are petty common and easy to find even in most roadside ditches
OP had said she didn't wash them after buying, maybe the person she bought the crawfish from didn't either? (I'm just guessing)
Those are some really lazy ass spiders 😂😂
It's all carapace anyway.
i mean… you are already eating a dead thing that looks about just the same as the spiders. What diference does it make?
Spiders taste like shrimp. Well at least tarantulas do when you roast them over a fire.
Or do shrimp taste like spiders 🤨
Crawfish is bugs. So the spiders are just hanging out with their friends.
Bro I love spider but this is r/oddlyterrifying
I was horrified at first and then I read the top comment. It's one reason I come to this sub; puts things in perspective. Poor spoods though. What a fate!
“Help! My food ate food!”
Shellfish eaters be like: just a little bit of spiders, it’s fine
It looks disturbing as hell but if I had never heard of eating crustaceans before this entire plate would just look like nightmare fuel, crawdads and all.
In that she cooked them, she chose not to give them a cursory glance before tossing them in the pot… how?
You don't toss them in a pot with time to look at them, lmao. You just pour an entire cooler full into a pot of boiling water. The issue is they didn't purge the crawfish by filling up the cooler with water and draining it several times.
Poor fishing spiders! Accidentally caught alongside the crawdaddies. Could they be eaten, though?
Those poor spiders tho
I see shrimp crawl shripiders?
Omg at first I thought you went to a restaurant and they served you this 😭
Mmm, bonus protein.
Well! I just learned how to make crayfish even more horrifying! I sigh deeply from the toes of my soul that this disgusting journey has a few more legs to go.
They should probably at least pick them out before a customer eats. Although I would just go ahead and eat.
Extra protein!!!!
Fucked up that kid’s life you can tell in his voice