This restaurant is serving up a $30 tarantula burger
During the month of April an envelope-pushing microbrewery is spicing up its menu with a selection of unusual meats, including alligator, bison, camel, python, turtle, ostrich, and goat, to name a few.
But one animal in particular has raised a few eyebrows, as the Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, N.C., celebrates Exotic Meat Month with its “Tarantula Challenge.”
The $30 tarantula burger includes a pasture-raised North Carolina beef burger with Gruyère cheese, topped with an oven-roasted tarantula and spicy chili sauce.
The burger joint said its chefs do not actually cook the spider onsite, in the restaurant, but they are killed before cooking.
It’s no surprise not everyone is keen to try the burger.
“Ew super gross,” tweeted one person.
“Oh, hell no,” added another.
But the unusual menu offering is much in demand — it’s so popular that diners aren’t allowed to try the creepy-crawly burger just because they want to. The only way to taste the arachnid affair is to enter the “Tarantula Raffle.”
Have you ever wondered what python tastes like? Want to find out?
House-Made Python curry over white rice is our current #BCBBExoticMeatMonth special. Rabbit is on deck. #BCBBExoticMeats pic.twitter.com/YLk0WAa17V
— Bull City Burger (@BullCityBurger) April 10, 2018
“You will be given a raffle ticket to keep and we will record your name and phone number on our raffle list,” the restaurant specified on its website.
If the selected diner is able to eat the entire burger, they will receive a free Tarantula Challenge T-shirt. A bunch of customers have stepped up to the plate and succeeded.
“We’ve had four people conquer the Tarantula Challenge this year, so far,” Bull City Burger and Brewery tweeted. “More to come! If tarantula isn’t your thing… we’ve got camel too.”
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