Why Didn’t Kara And Nate Eat The Halloween Moon Crabs?

A LOT of you have asked the question, why not eat the crabs?? The short answer they could have, despite their alarming colours, they are edible. But, there were a few reasons K&N didn’t. Let’s dive in…

The effort to calorie ratio!

These colourful guys might look a fair size but once you boil them and crack open up their legs and claws you are greeted with a measly amount of meat. Each crab yields about 40 calories. Plus, it’s a process to get to that meat, to optimise the calories you get from each, you need to boil them (in their calabash pot). To get to a decent meal you would be cooking a good 60 of these little fellas and cooking for HOURS. Compared to catching one medium size triggerfish!

Kara LOVED them (at first)

“They are so cute and beautiful” Kara expressed the first night these colourful crabs stormed through camp. She (initially) loved these cute Halloween moon crabs and never got hungry enough to transform them into food.

Halloween moon crabs are sometimes kept as pets due to their amazing orange and purple colours.

Massacre to calorie ratio

Sarah is a passionate vegan and Kara and Nate are vegetarian in their normal lives, so the idea of killing 60 of them for a meal was not appealing. Given a few more days, I think it would have become more so.

Not hungry enough

Thirst was the primary urge. They had not yet reached a point of hunger where they were eyeing up the crabs as legitimate food. Had the experience gone on longer, I think they would have turned to them as food.

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