Cicadas on the menu!

Cicada ranch anyone? 🤢

I would not.

Hell no. I get it. In some cultures these and mice and bats and all kinds of shit are consumed. But I'd rather turn vegetarian.

Why not? I balked at the idea 17 years ago (coming as close to picking one up and considering eating it), but today I'm more open to trying new things.

I tried roasted crickets last year and liked them. They were nutty and crunchy. I think the exoskeleton on something so large would bother me but if I fished it out like a shrimp I don't think I would care.

NO FANK YOU.

I like shrimp but prefer not to think about crustaceans too much.

Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.

I learned that in 8th grade and never forgot it.

i guess i might if i was in a foreign country and that's what was for dinner...

Can't do it. Op. But this is a high protein low calorie food.

R4 here again . . . I vaguely remember that those who were considering eating cicadas "way back when" were advised to do so just as they emerged from their shells on trees/plants. Kind of like Soft Shell Crabs.

No, not even if I were in an adventuresome mood, because...

◦ there's a potential for parasites

◦ Cicadas spend a 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 time underground, during which they would be exposed to lead poisoning, pesticides and fertilizers, as well as fracking chemicals. They would have the potential to be concentrated repositories of such stuff. Eating them could not be healthy.

◦ Lastly, they have become susceptible to a disgusting fungus that rots their genitals off and turns them into mindless sex machines, propagating the infection to other cicadas.

Not just no, but ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜!

Shit, NO. I will never willingly eat an insect.

Eating insects as a replacement protein source is good for the environment.

Are these insects the fellas who make all that noise during the summer? It's a peaceful noise, loud as it is, puts me to sleep.

They scream when you pick em up. My yard is full of them flying by my face. I grabbed one for my dog to play with and it screamed

[quote]Eating insects as a replacement protein source is good for the environment.

We're not interested.

If only!

Cicadas on the menu? This too shall pass.

Remember when the media was pushing Beyond Burgers and all that other fake meat crap? What happened to it?

Klaus Schwab and those WEF guys have convinced us cows destry the ozone layer and that we should all eat bugs. While I'm sure they will not be eating bugs. Westerners were somehow induced to eat raw fish, so bugs are next.

What twaddle! No such cicada consumption is happening or will happen.

Fiddle-faddle!

Cute

"NYC is having a thrilling steakhouse boom"

"A herd of new steakhouses — with rockstar chefs, prime locations and megabucks designs — are opening in Manhattan."

A herd is. Not a herd are.

Good catch.

I’ve eaten crickets. I thought they were fried but reading R5’s post now I’m thinking they may have been roasted. I was a bit anxious but they mostly tasted of crunch, sort of like a corn nut - and the sauce that accompanied them. They didn’t seem to have any particular flavor of their own.

If I hadn’t had a strong cocktail to go with, I probably would not have tried them.

I wonder what the worst part is: the crunch or the inside?

The creepy little legs.

Did someone say Cricket? God damn dog, but don't worry, I've got my rifle.

I just saw an Instagram post today that featured cicadas floating in Malort.

The media keeps pushing this INSECT shit on the public because of severe shortages of food that are coming in the future.

[quote]Remember when the media was pushing Beyond Burgers and all that other fake meat crap? What happened to it?

I just had a Beyond Burger yesterday at Carl's Jr. They're still around, but I didn't see them listed on the menu board and had to ask if they still had them.

My shishter Lorna alwaysh called me shellfish.

On a particularly bountiful New Years Day, my family feasted on a roasted cicada.

Nope, nope, nope.

Reading this makes me glad I became a mostly-vegetarian at the beginning of this year.

One cicada and I'm full.

Freeze em first

Then they can be dipped in chocolate

No thanks!!! 🤮. I will stick with Soylent Green for now....

listen, I am a fat whore. I can say I never would but if you wrapped it in bacon I think we all know that I would.

If we had bacon we wouldn't eat cicadas!

Technically speaking, OP, cicadas are in the same PHYLUM (Arthropoda) as shellfish, not FAMILY.

They have flown into my mouth more than once and it’s infuriating. I wouldn’t put them in there on purpose.