The New York Times is encouraging people to eat "the lobsters of the trees," better known as cicadas

Not the Bee ^ | 05/07/2024 | Cardinal Pritchard

[Bon of Babble]

Pretty much anything you can make with shrimp, you can make with cicadas.

[CFW]

My barn cats seem to be enjoying them, and actually have cut back on eating cat food since the cicadas emerged, but I think I will pass.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Cicada recipes pop up every time a 13 or 17 year Brood appears. I saw recipes in Cincinnati when Brood X appeared in 1987, 2004, and 2021, this is nothing new.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I did not claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat BUGS!

[Mogger]

At the last Cicada deluge a simpleton in Cincinnati ate a bunch of the critters and died.

Will WKRP be dropping them from a helicopter over a grocery store parking lot?

[dfwgator]

Aren’t Cicadas animals too?

Why aren’t the PETA folks protesting this?

[tflabo]

Sounds so delicious in your Francai’s there chef Pierre.

[Tunehead54]

I’ve (long ago) done survival trips - 24, 48, 72 hours where you’re dropped off in the middle of nowhere with a knife, a flint and a pancho.

I know how to get water in the desert, trap animals with a figure four deadfall, have eaten rattlesnake and rabbit and even grubs below a fallen log.

But things would really have to be bad before I eat cicadas.

;-)

[ronniesgal]

my dogs are gonna feast again.

[Tunehead54]

Really bad.

[Keyhopper]

No more recipes please

[Nervous Tick]

>> “The Bible tells me so.” Leviticus 11:21

Help yourself! They’re all yours, Levi.

[ABStrauss]

If they were dropped in Toledo, Ohio the gulls would eat them.