I am not sure who needs to see this...

[Roller]

The great cicada tasting, feat. Ashlie Rodriguez, Victoria Sanchez and Veronica Johnson

Humans have five senses. We can certainly see, touch, and hear the Brood X cicadas that have invaded our region recently, so why not try to get close enough to smell and even taste them, too? That's exactly what three members of the 7News team decided to do Monday atCocina on Market in Leesburg...

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[Roller]

In Northern Virginia , they vote blue and eat green.

 

[Newboomer]

In Northern Virginia , they vote blue and eat green.

Typical liberal bugs.

 

[Brent in Az]

Do they come in bacon flavor?

 

[CoElkHunter]

Never seen a live cicada. I guess we don't have them here? Too bad, cause I was thinking tacos?

 

[Roller]

Everything is good deep fried. Would make great drinking food. Crunchy snack like pork rinds.

 

[Vashper]

I've heard of starvation in America, of course, but I didn't think it is that bad.

 

[Inline6]

Does there have to be warning labels on everything! Geez!

In the state of California they have been known to cause cancer.

 

[Randy F]

In the state of California they have been known to cause cancer.

Cicadas or warning labels?

 

[Randy F]

I think I’ll just continue to thank the good lord I’ve never been that hungry.
Yeeesh!

 

[Cervus elaphus]

You should try your hand at chicken and sausage gumbo. I love seafood gumbo, but it costs me about 50-60 USD for the ingredients. Steaks are less expensive than that, at least here.

Chicken prawn & sausage are my basic ingredients for Cajun gumbo, I don't shred the chicken, just chop it up and throw it in. I use Spanish chorizo sausage because of the stronger flavour and add a few cubes of smoked bacon to boost that up. For my version of Creole gumbo it's all seafood, no meat, as seafood is relatively cheap here in Australia, prawns, mussels, clams, scallops and a firm white fish like cod or shark. Adding a good sprinkling of red chili flakes warms it up. The one essential vegetable that is sometimes hard to get fresh in Oz is okra. When I go hunting or trout fishing during the winter I take frozen gumbo in my pack and by eats time it's thawed and ready to heat up over the fire.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

If they were anywhere near tasty, I'd walk out in the back yard and have enough for a fifty five gallon drum of cicada gumbo. Some just now pics from my back yard. The noise is deafening.
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Trout absolutely love these critters and stuff themselves silly. They (the trout) don't seem to taste of shrimp or lobster though.

 

[Thumper Mcgee]

So what's best stage to eat them at...larvae or adult?

ive only eaten adults, i do not think their bad

 

[Inline6]

Cicadas or warning labels?

It's California we're talking about so both!

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

So what's best stage to eat them at...larvae or adult?

Bugger off, you’ve been drinking again eh?

 

[lwaters]

There here every year in Kansas. Not many until July and August. Copperhead snskes like them

 

[Brent in Az]

When the Cicadas are going strong up at the Lee's Ferry of the Colorado river, flyfishing with Cicada patterns can be exciting.

 

[Bullthrower338]

SERE School cuisine, besides a green ant or two in OZ my insect consumption has been quite minimal.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

When the Cicadas are going strong up at the Lee's Ferry of the Colorado river, flyfishing with Cicada patterns can be exciting.

yeah, I use a cicada pattern around mid-summer on the steelhead rainbows of the Tongariro river, or anywhere where the juicy morsels hang on the foliage above the water.
Photo courtesy of danblanton dot com

 

[Brent in Az]

SERE School cuisine, besides a green ant or two in OZ my insect consumption has been quite minimal.

Not so fast.......LOL.

A study by an insect control company stated, that the average person consumes 140,000 pieces of insect every year.