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How To Hunt a Cicada Smorgasbord
seagirlreed writes "During this year's cicada swarmageddon, make a cicada smorgasbord by selecting the tastiest bugs from the richest cicada hunting grounds. They taste like asparagus!"
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I'll take everyone's word for this.
I'd rather listen to them sing, than eat them. Something about their song puts me in mind of tall Cottonwood treeds, whiling away summers along the lazy rivers of the midwest, where I spent my youth fishing for carp (didn't eat them, either) with corn for bait and a lugnut for a sinker.
Now I spend summers dealing with technology issues. Hmm.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
No.
No.
we humans evolved to eat pretty much anything that moves. And thinking about it, we do ingest some horrid things of our making like booze. And we eat mushrooms, fungi, bacteria, and other nasty shit that makes these bugs seem like steak.
> What is this, the new Slashdot, news for survivalists?
We may all be survivalists someday.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
You've just eaten a handful of bugs. Seems to me what your pee smells like is the least of your worries.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Why all this revulsion at eating an insect? There are lots of exotic yet disgusting food out there in this world.
And how are Cicadas that much different from edible locusts, which are eaten in the Middle East, Mexico and elsewhere?
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