Posted on 06/11/2021 8:20:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Many Marylanders are already over this cicada emergence. But, some families are making the best of it — including a Maryland family that enjoyed the insects on pizza.
Anything is good on pizza, right?
In a TikTok video, Alyssa Lighter and her family fried up some cicadas, adding a sprinkle of Old Bay and topping them on a pizza. The video shows each child trying it and their reactions.
Lighter said her 7-year-old was the first to want to try a cicada. So the rest of the family got on board.
The kids thought it tasted like ham or normal pizza toppings, but mom said they tasted like grass!
Well for pizza toppings it’s prosciutto, provolone, capolla and now cicada. If the name fits, eat it. LOL Nothing replaces anchovies as the worst pizza topping not even the loud bugs.
What’s next? poop on a stick?
George Carlin was right about humans...
“Nothing replaces anchovies as the worst pizza topping not even the loud bugs.”
Roger that.
More proof that morons will do anything for face time.
Hey, some people eat slugs with garlic butter sauce. Call them escargot.
I remember a National Geographic article claiming that fried cicadas tasted like shrimp.
Then there are those who snap / tear a crawdad in half and joyfully suck out the contents of the head ...
Pineapple now the second most hated pizza topping.
(Actually, I don’t mind the Hawaiian style pizza once in a while. But that’s a hard ‘no’ on the bugs.)
Nope.
Was Bill Gates there? He thinks we should be happy eating bugs.
Then there are those who snap / tear a crawdad in half and joyfully suck out the contents of the head ...
I did that last night, all 3 pounds of them.
Maybe a nice cheese fondue.
The FDA has recently posted notice that the cicadas are related to shrimp and lobster, and that people allergic to those critters should not eat cicadas...
Seems like a stretch.
I dunno - the arthropods are a pretty enormous ‘phamily’...
(How often have you heard someone say that a lobster is just an enormous bug?)
If they taste like South Louisiana Crawdads I could eat them enthusiastically. As a young boy I ran crayfish nets for fun. Just a couple of kids with 20 nets. We would come home with 30 pounds of crayfish on a good day of 4 hours of fishing.
It was delicious. We cooked it outside in a big pot over a wood fire. Life was so simple then and perfect. I hunted, I fished, and killed wild game, it was all perfect.
Unfortunately I became educated in geology, chemistry, pharmacy, and commercial aviation. I made my living in all the above except commercial aviation, I got to old. A few of my past students are captains for commercial airlines.
I became a pharmacist circa 1985. The oilfield which was my mainstay collapsed in 1983, I was making big bucks as a consultant then. The airline slots went to hell at the same time. I had all my tickets for such. I was not needed. As a consultant in the oilfield I was making more money than the commercial pilots. It all went to hell for all of us at the same time. I sold my house and airplane and went back to school to become a pharmacist.
I loved chemistry. When in geology I took much as electives and also physics. When I went to pharmacy I had all the pre pharmacy done. I went to school year round and thus did a 6 year course in 2-1/2 years. My chem and physics while in Geology took care of the first two years.
Our nation is so great that can allow a middle class if not lower class kid that once cut cane to do this.
Oddly I find the concept of just being a “Swamp Rat” in the swamps I loved as a youth not a bad idea. It was all so simple in the swamp. A “Swamp Rat” hunts and fishes the swamp. He understands its bounty and also its dangers. I miss it.
America is great.
America WAS great it is now a mere shell of what it once was!! HEARTBREAKING!!
I’m one of those. My son went to Tulane. So many wonderful food adventures down in New Orleans
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