We stopped to buy 25 pineapple for Zone Conference in Kampon Thom. It cost about $12.50. Not too bad. These pineapples are so delicious. Also here in this area several women sell Fried Crickets and Tarantulas. Many Elders like to try the spiders, especially just to say that they've eaten one. Scott told the missionaries, if you haven't eaten one then he is sorry, but there won't be any more opportunities. He told them that tarantulas don't have Mormon Faces! The real reason they are off limits now is because a couple of missionaries have gotten sick the day after eating one and the sickness remained for quite a while. We think the spider has been cooked, so it's probably okay, unless it sat out all day in the wind and the dirt. Also the hands that prepared the tarantula and then hand it to the missionary is most likely not very clean and can pass on undersirable stuff.
I have to admit, they are not pretty to look at. To me, it is not even any kind of temptation to eat one and we're sorry that we had to curtail the activity, but it was for the health and safety of our missionaries. Here in this little market, the city is building two great big cement sculptured tarantulas and there is a flower garden with a big tarantula sculpture in it. It's quite popular for tourists.
Oh I would eat one in a heart beat...hoping all along that I don't get sick. I know that Brooke would run away as I ate him.
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