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"Arachnophobes, maybe look the other way for a sec. But, really, as our food becomes increasingly more global, it pays to know that this kind of thing can happen. It happened at my house! Recently, when my husband bought a box of bananas (we eat a lot of bananas in this house), he found an unwanted guest: A giant, tropical spider (think hair, vaguely tarantula-like). He was able to, um, dispose of Mr. Unwelcome Spider, quickly before we identified it (or photographed it), but yikes. Turns out, our experience isn&amp;#x27;t that uncommon. There have been a lot of reports of people finding enormous spiders hidden in bananas and other fruit originating from tropical countries. For example, a woman in Wisconsin found a venomous Brazilian spider hiding in a bunch of bananas she brought home from Wal Mart last year--eeks! As our food supply is so international these days (grapes from Chile, avocados from Mexico, Bananas from Brazil!), it pays to inspect fruit and maybe even wash immediately when you get home to avoid bringing such a hitchhiker into your kitchen. Has something like this every happened to you? More reading: *These are my favorite variety of bananas! Have you tried them? *Would you sleep on one of these extreme beds? *What&amp;#x27;s the weirdest thing you&amp;#x27;ve ever eaten? This supermodel eats sea urchin--right off the beach! Photo: Jupiter"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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