NO WAY - first off i don't eat that stuff since i'm a veggie, but secondly - it's kind of creepy looking. you have to wonder how and why it got to be so big.

I don't care how it looks on the outside, all I know is that the meat's most likely good on the inside

But how do you open that thing? A hammer?

don't spiders and crabs share an ancestor somewhere down the line?
i've called crabs "sea spiders" for a long time, and i think i remember reading that fact somewhere.

and no, i would never eat it i hate seafood

Heck yeah I would eat it! I love crab, and to me it doesn't look more like a spider than other crabs (they all kinda do), just bigger.

Just give me a bowl of melted butter and a pile of napkins. I'll be all over that thing!

It does resemble a spider, and I actually like spiders. But the shell makes it crab for me, and I love crab meat!

Yes, but.. it would probably eat me first

No doubt I would eat it. He grew so big because he was smart. Looks like his luck ran out.

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew!!!!! It does look like a giant red tarantula!

That sea creature's sweet and delicious meat would be in my stomach in a heartbeat.

freaks me out knowing things that large are hanging out on the bottom of the ocean under me!

Of course this crab looks A LOT like a spider.. all of them do. Ever check out a cladistics tree? Even though a spider is more closely related to a horseshoe crab they are all arthropods.

Big YES. We indulge in Alaskan king legs every month or so. I can't imagine the meat that would come out of one of this guy's legs.

Aww, I think crabs are so cute. That one is so abnormal and huge, I'd feel bad wasting it for food. Let it prosper where it belongs. That being said, I do like to eat normal-sized crabs.

Yes! I see crabs like these every time I go to my local fish market.

mochick yup, crabs and spiders come from the same evolutionary group.

But no thanks to a shellfish allergy I would not eat that.

I'd definitely try it, I like crab meat.

HELL YES.

doesnt anyone watch Deadliest Catch on Discovery? thats what the "catch" looks like, and i would eat it in a milisecond.

For sure! Crab is delish!

I don't eat seafood. And that crab is massive! Holy moley!

Creepy ... no way

how does the size make it look more like a tarantula than any other crab?

Butter please?

I'm getting hungry just looking at that!! I wonder if the meat might be tough though.

I'd eat that in a second! That would taste AWESOME! It doesn't look any different than any other crab...just bigger and probably yummier.

I'm a vegetarian, so no. But when I wasn't a vegetarian, crabs were my favorite..

Oh how much do I HATE being allergic to shellfish right now!!

Absolutely! I love seafood! The reason why it's big, it's because the crab is old...

There is absolutely NO WAY I wouldn't eat it!

We had king crab for my birthday. It's funny I used to not be into crab...so much work for so little pay (as far as the smaller crabs are concerned). But king crab definitely takes care of that!

Looks delicioso to me!

I don't eat seafood, so no.

I don't know much about crabs, but I'm pretty sure there's nothing freaky about that one; it just didn't get caught earlier in its life, so it had lots of time to grow.

Yummy...man, break out the butter and lemon, please!!

I'd want someone else to crack it for me, because I really don't think I could--since it's ginormous!

not only would i eat, i'd finish it!!

I agree with ilanac13 - how???

Yes, if I could know where it came from.

when i ate at the Jumbo Floating restaurant in Hong Kong we had two 20 lbs lobsters for dinner... we ate like kings!