Cicada recipes: How to cook these once every 17 years delicacies

cleveland.com ^ | Updated Jan 11, 2019 | Joey Morona

[Viking2002]

And you thought they were just bred to flush out weasels. Did I ever tell you about the Great Bavarian Cicada War of 1681? If it weren’t for legions of trained Scheißhunds, German beer would taste a lot different today...... ;-)

[Kartographer]

I believe that you dehydrated them

[mylife]

We burned them with gASOLINE

[mylife]

We burned them with gASOLINE

[DeFault User]

The jaybirds in my part of Texas feasted on the cicadas and katydids. Their death cries are horrible.

[DeFault User]

Like you, I think I confused cicadas with katydids.

[mylife]

Bald peanuts is like salty gooey ***

[Kartographer]

LMAO

[Kartographer]

I believe this is a portrait of a hero of that war Baron Von Orkin

[Cold Heart]

Try the fermented Greenland shark. You won’t crave the boiled peanuts but you will prefer them.

[Slyfox]

I am real sorry but I don’t think even bacon will make a bug taste better.

[Viking2002]

Yes, that is his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather on his Oma’s side. (I believe there was some Scottish terrier mixed in a few generations back, and he was too besotted with single malt to make much of a Hessian, but nobody’s perfect.)

[Segovia]

A cicada couldn’t “cry”, they have no vocal parts, the noise they make is with their legs. Last time those things came up I said to myself, “thank God I’ll probably be dead before they appear again”, they totally give me the heebee jeebies, I near wrecked my car on the interstate when one flew in my window and landed on my arm.

[KarlInOhio]

And why is it I remember cicadas EVERY summer in Texas?

Some species are annual which grow for years underground, but some mature and emerge every year. Then some are periodical where almost all come out at the same time.

We have some of the annual ones every year, but this is the big year for the 17 year attack.

It looks like you don't get very many of the 13- or 17-year swarms of them in Texas.

[wardaddy]

Winter cicadas?

Ours are dead heat summer horror movie version

[wardaddy]

Cajuns are America’s best most ardent hunters and can make almost any flesh taste edible or even very good

Raccoon

Possum

Nutria

And so on.....ground hig

Boney fish

One of associates is from Gonzales La

He hunts like a mad man

And cooks all of it

I’d eat cicada

I’ve had insects....usually wok style...not bad

[DoodleBob]

I do not like green bugs and spam, I do not like them Sam I am.

[Kartographer]

LOL!!

[Larry Lucido]

So if I did see 17-year cicadas in Texas, it was likely around 1986 or 1987 in Dallas (I was only there from 1986 to 1994).

If I did see them, I didn’t card them.

[jonrick46]

Do you pull off the legs, like you do shrimp?