Posted on 06/08/2011 4:44:23 AM PDT by Libloather
Cicada ice cream sales come to end in Missouri
The Associated Press
Posted Jun 07, 2011 @ 06:22 PM
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Public health officials have suggested a shop in the college town of Columbia cool it with a cicada-flavored ice cream that customers apparently can't get enough of during the insect's once-every-13-years invasion.
Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream contacted the health department after it sold out of its only batch of the insect-filled snack within hours of its June 1 debut. Employees collected the bountiful bugs in their backyards and removed most of the dead cicadas' wings but saved some for texture's sake.
The cicadas were fully cooked by boiling then covered in brown sugar and milk chocolate. The base ice cream is a brown sugar and butter flavor.
The store was going to make another batch for the weekend, but a sign on the door told customers it won't be back until 2024. Seems like the City of Columbia/Boone County Departrment of Public Health and Human Services couldn't find the proper cooking temperature guidelines next to its listings for beef, chicken, fish and pork.
"The food code doesn't directly address cicadas," environmental health manager Gerry Worley said. "We advised against it."
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Shop told to stop selling cicada flavour ice cream - although it sold out in hours
Gotta try Snail Darter sorbet next.
The best part!
It is not as though they are an endangered species. When they come out, they are everywhere.
LOL--I was gonna say, "tastes just like caterpillar!"
seems like the dept oh health in Missouri is sticking their fingers into a lot lately’ going after raw milk, cicada ice cream. do they have a bloated payroll that they need to justify?
I always chuckle when I hear someone say "that tastes like sh..! " How do they know unless they tasted it? LOL!
They didn’t report the whole story:
City of Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services - Special Commission on Culinary Delights - Ad Hoc Panel on Insect Gastronomy. The eight members of the Ad Hoc Panel all have $250,000 per year retirement packages with life-long medical benefits.
We can not trust just anyone to decide which bugs to eat. I understand they are all Cambodian. Have they released an insect pie chart?
They asked a sodomite.
Why the big parachute? Most of these guys would work for crickets.
Neighbor I knew years ago had a dog that LOVED to eat them.
Pan-fried cicadas are an Ohio delicacy
That is the look on your hunting dog's face after he has found, rolled in and consumed the "truffles" left by another hunter out in the woods.
You'd shoot him except he's such a damn fine hunter and friend in all other respects.
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