Rae Yang’s Cultural Revolution memoir is titled Spider Eaters, since if people eat crabs now certainly someone tried to eat spiders, and we should thank them for their sacrifice.
I think about Icelandic hakarl (an otherwise poisonous shark that is edible if left to rot for 6 months) and think of the level of desperation necessary for someone to try it. Consistent with famines wiping out a quarter of the island's population
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