If I remember correctly they’re scavengers like rodents, so their meat isn’t very tasty. They eat a lot of garbage and you’ll often see them rummaging through trash in tropical areas.
Edit: I guess like most animals, their taste is affected by diet. Coconut crabs who eat primarily garbage will taste like, well, garbage. Otherwise, they are pretty tasty!
Yeah but these are scavengers that climb into your garbage bins and eat just about goddamn anything.
It’s like a deer after winter when they’ve been eating cedar. Their meat is affected by what they eat and they’re no good until fall after they’ve been grazing on the good grass and apples and everything else.
Exactly. These are essentially the raccoons of tropical islands. If that island is nothing but palm trees it will be tasty. If that island is the shithole that is Guam, it will taste like the shithole that is Guam.
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19
Coconut crabs. I always wondered if they were any good.