Pine nuts, bacon, soft-shell crab—these are the flavors of caterpillars, beetles, and tarantulas, if you can believe it.
Cicadas, Grasshoppers, Locusts, Ants Among the Tastiest Insects|Nina Strochlic|May 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
With their meatier body, tarantulas are said to taste like to soft-shell crab or shrimp.
Cicadas, Grasshoppers, Locusts, Ants Among the Tastiest Insects|Nina Strochlic|May 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is partial to the “soft-shell” crabs and small tortoises common in the American waters.
The Hunters' Feast|Mayne Reid
There is a weir in the river, in the deep waters of which it is said there are a very great number of soft-shell tortoises.
Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions)|Maximilian, Prinz von Wied
He comes at me wide open, with a guard like a soft-shell crab.
Shorty McCabe|Sewell Ford
If soft-shell crabs are not to be had, serve a creamed fish in whole cucumbers, as was suggested for a January luncheon.
Gala Day Luncheons|Caroline Benedict Burrell
Soft-shell crabs are liked very much by water turtles, if they are very fresh.