Smen and Dried Tarantulas.
I find the Chopped show strangely captivating. If I tune in to an episode, I always watch to the end. I am often glad I do not have to cook with or eat some of the outlandish ingredients that show up in the baskets. Frequently, I have never heard of at least one of the ingredients.
Two of the ingredients today would have made me walk away, either as a judge or a competitor.
Smen - explained as a type of fermented butter. Alton Brown described it as smelling like athletic socks that had been left your locker for 3 months. The spelling brings to mind one of my least favorite biological/medical terms - smegma. (Interesting - spell check does not recognize either "smen" or "smegma. Suggested corrections were "semen," "amen," "stigma," and "magma." - 
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Dried tarantulas - no, No, NO. Just NO. HELL NO!!! These were in the dessert round. 
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I love to cook, and I find it very inspiring. Thankfully, most of the stuff I've got in my kitchen doesn't come close to the insane stuff they throw in those baskets.
Dried tarantulas? I'd probably give it a taste. Years ago, a friend gave me a package of dried mealworms. Not terrible.
And just to be a punster, I'm surprised the dried tarantulas weren't in the desert round. 
Since I don't eat my pets, I wouldn't eat a tarantula. 
