RESTAURANT OFFERS TARANTULA-TOPPED BURGER

Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, North Carolina, is offering burgers topped with a hairy, giant, cooked tarantula. The promotion is part of their sixth annual Exotic Meat Month, which celebrates the restaurant and brewery’s anniversary by serving burgers made from meats eaten around the globe each March and April. The other burgers offered on the menu during the promotion include alligator, iguana, python, bison, turtle, bugs, among others, but this is only the second year that Bull City Burger has offered the tarantula challenge. Brave customers who clean their plates get a tarantula challenge T-shirt – and bragging rights. According to the restaurant, the tarantula burger is $30 and is a 100 percent North Carolina pasture-raised beef burger with gruyere cheese and spicy chili sauce served on a fresh-house baked bun with a side of dirty fries. The oven-roasted tarantula is described as “lightly salted and oven-baked.”
* These people put SALT on their baked tarantulas? Eeewwww!
* It got five stars from Gollum.
* You cringe, and yet you don’t blink at eating crabs and lobsters.
* I don’t know if I could order a hamburger medium-rare, light on the fuzz.
* The owner is one of those space reptiles.
* If they cook it too rare, your burger gets up and walks away.
* The turtle burger comes in its own hard roll.
* We got this story about tarantula-topped burgers on the web.