Dayton, Ohio, restaurant tests out pizza topped with cicadas

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[mylife]

Those aren’t olives.

An Ohio restaurant seems to have found a use for the Brood X cicadas pestering parts of the Midwest. The Pizza Bandit in Dayton tested out a Spicy Thai Cicada Pie.

Yes, that’s a pizza with cicadas on it.

Before you get too excited — or repulsed — know that the restaurant is not selling cicada-topped pizzas. In a Facebook post showing off the new creation, the business noted, “We’re not even sure if we legally can sell you locally foraged Cicadas.”

The restaurant did livestream a tasting panel trying out the pizza, which also featured miso hoisin sriracha sauce, mozzarella, provolone, mushrooms, cabbage, green onion, mango, cilantro and a spicy Thai sauce.

“Opinions of the pizza range from absolutely delicious to … well … uh … yeah….,” the Facebook post said.

While cicadas are not toxic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned people not to eat the insects if they are allergic to seafood. “These insects share a family relation to shrimp and lobsters,” the FDA said.

[mylife]

[abb]

Kinda adds a whang to it, I suspect.

[Richard Axtell]

I am sure frogs, toads, and some birds will love it. Trouble is, they don’t pay. I would excuse any human that might wretch at the thought of eating this crap voluntarily.

[BenLurkin]

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Probably still less gross than the Oreo pizza that Dominos had for a while. Who thinks up stuff like this?

[mewzilla]

🤮

[mewzilla]

Business owners with lousy margins.

[Sirius Lee]

Stop trying to make cicada toppings happen.

[Pollard]

While cicadas are not toxic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned people not to eat the insects if they are allergic to seafood. “These insects share a family relation to shrimp and lobsters,” the FDA said.

Well I'm glad it wasn't the lobsters who evolved to fly

[srmanuel]

If Biden and the liberals stay in control of our economy long enough we might all be eating Cicada Pizzas and told we should feel lucky to have them...

[equaviator]

Cicadas? That’s not Italian!

[Robert DeLong]

Disgusting.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Should be a very easy sell to proggy lefty wokesters, everywhere.

[setter]

Tucker ate cicadas on his show the other night and he said they were quite good.

[mylife]

some bugs might be ok but I never ate one and never went to SEAR school

[White Lives Matter]

Just like eating crawfish from what I was told.

[Red Badger]

[Tennessee Nana]

Ya gotta eat yer spinach err cicadas Baby....

[tflabo]

Hey Vern, whats these dead minnows cicadas doing on my pizza?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5nCSJr-Jiw

[newfreep]

As a native Daytonian, this is insane stupidity.