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Well, there's a place where anyone scared witless by spiders should probably steer clear of.

For them it would be like going to hell.

Welcome to Skuon in Cambodia – or Spider Town as it's known simply because it is absolutely alive with ginormous creepy-crawlies.

And these big and hairy spiders scuttle about everywhere.

Dropping off roofs onto people's heads or darting from nowhere to somewhere pretty damn fast, these furry fellas make themselves at home in this place, occasionally delivering an agonising bite to an unsuspecting villager.

But fed-up locals have decided if you can't beat them why not eat them?

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Deep fried with some spices and herbs, they are munched down by hungry residents as a snack or maybe with noodles or rice.

Hawkers can be seen holding out plates brimming with crispy tarantula treats in a bid to tempt customers.

So how do they taste?

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Taste-wise it is bland, a sort of cross between chicken and cod ...if that tempts you.

Biting first through a crispy outer shell, your teeth then sink into a soft centre.

The hairy legs offer little flesh to chew on.

Stay clear of the bulbous abdomen though, because this contains a brown noxious goo probably the insect's organs, eggs and poop.

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Travel blogger Andrew Kolasinski gave into curiosity when visiting the village and decided to try one.

"The taste was a bit nutty, the skin was crunchy," he reports.

"The pencil thick legs were salty with a hint of garlic. It went well with cold Angkor beer.

"The meat of the abdomen is white like chicken."

But he added: "The organ cavity should be avoided."

You might think the whole spider eating thing is something the village has always done – as dictated by an ancient, mystical tradition maybe.

But no, they've only being doing it since the 1970s.

When the communist Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia led by the deranged dictator Pol Pot everyone was forced from the cities into the countryside to farm.

But since the townies knew next to nothing about farming, it was not long before the whole country was in the grip of a famine.

Not wanting to starve to death, those living in Skuon began to think the unthinkable and started eating the spiders that had long plagued the community.

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And ever since then they've been going down a treat.

So next time you freak out at a spider in your home, just be glad you don't live in Skuon.