Posted on 05/31/2021 3:42:11 PM PDT by Libloather
**SNIP**
Air-fried felt like a safe place to start, especially once I noticed the flurry of Old Bay seasoning being sprinkled onto each batch. I grabbed a set of two on a toothpick, declining the extra roll in even more Old Bay (I’m at work here). The cicadas, once pale, were now golden and browned, their signature eyes turned black from the heat. I popped one into my mouth.
Not bad! Certainly not buggy. The entire critter crackled in my mouth like a piece of earthy popcorn. I caught a subtle nuttiness underneath the crunch, almost reminiscent of a roasted chickpea. By the fourth or fifth chew I was almost starting to like it, until I swallowed and realized that a teeny-tiny leg was lingering on my tongue. The toothpick went into the trash, along with the other cicada.
Next up was a chocolate-covered cicada, which by comparison felt like cheating. Thanks to the thickness of the coating, I was easily able to pretend that I was eating a large chocolate-covered raisin. From there, it was all downhill. My third and fourth cicadas, which were grilled, tasted like smokier, chewier versions of the air-fried one, with a slightly meatier flavor that made it clear why cicada eaters compare them to shrimp.
Nowhere was that shellfish flavor more evident than in the oven-roasted cicada, though I was quickly distracted from that thought by the realization that the bug had exploded in my mouth like a Gusher. My tongue awash in bug guts, I reconsidered all the choices I’d made in my life that had brought me to that moment.
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Doesn’t Bear Grylls have a bug recipe survival book?
bugs are yummy. part of the global warming hoax.
I’ll stick with beef and pork, thanks anyways.
Fine coinsurers agree, the perfect libation to accompany cicadas is warm cow urine strained through a dirty sweat sock.
After that vivid description, I think I’ll take a pass on the
Buggy-Menu. Even if they were being sold 10 for $1.00.
Just pass me the roasted cauliflower with sesame seed oil, and I’m fine.
Even if my ribs were touching my backbone, I wouldn’t.......
Oops. Too late.
When Communist Pol Pot took over Cambodia and began mass killings of all who were educated or did not support him, the poverty became so great the people survived by eating insects, and scorpions, and rats. And snakes...
Basically like North Korea, anything the could eat.
They still eat them. Street vendors everywhere had an assortment on the grill.
Cicadas, locusts, grasshoppers, crawdads, salt water prawns, fresh water prawns all taste nearly identical when cooked with the same methods..why? Because there are less than .01% genetic differences between those species. They all are Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta. As are every lobster and every type of crabs as well. It’s semantics the differences between them if you eat shrimp or lobster you are eating “bugs” get over yourself. Scientifically identical to the same bugs in your walls and floor there is not enough difference in DNA to call it anything else.
And that is the point where I realized early in life that I would not eat English peas or a myriad of other things that others may call food. I've eaten shark, frog legs, snake, rabbit and squirrel and even liked it. I draw the line with creepy things and most vegetables that make my brain cringe and my stomach hurl.
I am all for people eating bugs if they want to.
I will stick with meat for now, thanks.
For some reason I’m thinking of Gomer Pyle on the survival course where he gained weight.
Mao
The Great Leap Forward
45 million govt killed in three years
There are reasons not to eat the garbage eaters/bottom feeders
As well as other carnivores
LOL
I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain just so I could eat bugs.
I ate roasted insects in Thailand in the street markets. I was chaperoning student on a field trip. The deal was anything I ate they had to eat as well.
The beattle grubs were good and tasted like scrambled eggs. The roasted spiders on a stick needed a dit soda to get down.
If you can eat shrimp, no doubt you can handle some fried grasshoppers with a little garlic and Old Bay seasoning.
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