How to Eat a Scorpion: and why it makes for great revenge

I'd been planning on doing a post about eating scorpions for some time now.

Long story short, a couple months ago I had a really bad reaction to a spider bite. I also just so happened to know a local tapas bar(Bardo in Norfolk, Virginia) with a scorpion dish on the menu. So I figured, what better way to exact revenge on the spider population than to eat one of their arachnid cousins?

Apparently it's really not that bad. They're served all intact, just like a crab or lobster, and taste almost like a shrimp (or at least that's what you're supposed to convince yourself it tastes like).

So some friends and I call to make a reservation the other night, only to discover that Bardo took scorpion off the menu a couple weeks ago.

I was devastated.

The hostess felt bad though when I explained how stoked I had been about the scorpions. She explained that they at least still had the scorpion cage up front, they just weren't cooking them anymore.

After a failed attempt to convince her to cook it up anyway (I'll chalk it up to some health code...), I decide to compromise by returning home and firing up the old SNES.

That's right, I went there

Until next time, join me in the movement to get scorpions back on the menu at Bardo, and I'll put up some video-how-to of this unique treat.

Best,
-Andrew