YUM

Josefa Maria Briceno, a 36-year-old doctor, said the spider croquette "tasted smokey and spicy," but "looked really weird with the black legs sticking out."

Comments

[Cheryl Howard]

First to pass

[Beppie]

Just, gag.

[Hammond Rye]

"but unfortunately we don't know anything about the cooking of our own indigenous tribes"

I saw the spider, monkey, and rodent references. I didn't see the cannibalism connection.

Oh, and Yipe!

[Beppie]

"Smoked Monkey" WBAGNFABADRB

[Gadfly]

this bugs me

[Gadfly]

"dried paca, a rodent weighing up to 10 kilograms (22 pounds)."

Yikes!, we thought are squirrel problem was bad.

[Suzy Q]

Ew. Ick.

[fivver]

Those folks had better get used to it. By the time Chavez is finished with his peoples socialist revolution they'll be glad to spiders and termites for dinner.

[russellmc]

Smoked monkey?... I've heard of people spanking their monkey, but smoking?

[Edgar Greenberg]

Gadfly, in Basil they have rodents the size of ponies.

[CJrun]

Do they saute in Basil?

[CJrun]

[apologies to Nat Cole]

Yummy, why I keep eating, spider croquettes,
Eating grubs, pacas, and smoked monkey too.
Tell me you are grilling, more spider croquettes,
Human hearts tender and steaming in goo.
Someday you'll eat termites, just as I do.
Maybe the ones you eat will be tasty too.
And then you’ll dine upon your pets,
You know, like spider croquettes, I dare you.
Mm, someday you'll fall in the pot and we’ll eat you, too.
Now, maybe the one you eat will just be fattening you.
And when you try an Emu omlette, Ew-ew,
now, you know, my spider croquette, I prefer you.

[KCSteve]

As fivver alluded, most 'delicacies' are just what people resorted to trying to eat to keep from starving.

The rest are just jokes played on gullible tourists.

[KOW]

Well, this is as good a time as any to start a diet.

[DaChew]

"They started to bring out all the things they had hidden," Mendez said, laughing.

Anybody else think the Yanomami just have a good sense of humor? If somebody who didn't know better showed up at this blog and wanted to be fed what people here eat, tell me that squirrel wouldn't be on the menu.

[Glix]

"At the first event I held, everyone was shocked," Mendez said Thursday on the sidelines of a gastronomy fair in Caracas. "After the people try these things, they change."

This is one instance where I'd argue that expanding your horizons isn't exactly a good thing.