Posted on 05/31/2021 3:42:11 PM PDT by Libloather
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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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Wait, before you preheat the oven . . . .
“Hallucinogenic Fungi Turn Cicadas Into Sex-Crazed Zombies”
“Before you start chomping on cicadas trying to get high, though, researchers warn that psilocybin is only one of many compounds found in this fungus, including some that may be harmful.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/evy794/hallucinogenic-fungi-turn-cicadas-into-sex-crazed-zombies
If that's true, and if they could be boiled, and if one could peel the skeletons off like one does when eating boiled shrimp, then pass me the drawn butter and let me give it a try. I could peel and eat boiled shrimp until there was a mound of shells a foot high.
I’ll never be that hungry.
“They are gushers, gushers of fungi.
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I get the feeling you would know what you are talking about on this topic.
Seems like the sort if thing you need to be brought up with to fully appreciate.
They certainly sound like something that shouldn’t be hurried when preparing.
Euell Gibbons?
I’ve eaten bugs before, but if I were to do it for more than a novelty I’d want to be able to not eat the guts…which I avoid eating when dining on shellfish.
Hard to do with bugs.
JD_UTDallas, I suggest you try a job in standup comedy. The truth is ridiculous at times and that ridiculous is funny.
I am going to dig into an appetizer plate of surströmming and casu fràzigu on rye crackers and think about dinner plans for tonight.
They all are Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta. As are every lobster and every type of crabs as well.
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. Yes, Lobsters are Phylum: Arthropoda, but Class: Malacostraca (largest of the crustacean classes)
Well, it was good enough for John the Prophet.
In case you want to ruin your appetite, LOL.
Well..like I always say. If I got hungry enough I guess I would eat the asshole out of a skunk.
They are vegetarian, so that’s all I care about.
It is just a question of how to make them the most tolerable.
“shrimp”
Mud bugs, the ocean’s cockroaches.
Greta Thunberg cultists and other environ-MENTAL-ists should be made to eat these.
DANG!
Dip them in chocolate.
So lobsters taste buggy, and bugs taste lobster-y, correct?
Crayfish, crabs, lobster, and prawns are not insects.
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