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http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/Cicadas-The-Shrimp-of-The-Land-206945321.html

>After nearly two decades living under the earth, cicadas are about to shake off the dirt and invade our great outdoors. And they’ll be ripe for your feasting says Isa Betancourt, an entomologist from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

>“It’s a delicacy that’s rare,” says Betancourt, who’s known to dine on a few bugs from time to time. She calls cicadas "the shrimp of the land.”

>“They are arthropods, which means they have an exoskeleton,” she said. “We regularly eat the arthropods of the sea and those are the shrimp, lobsters and crabs. And so cicadas are arthropods too.”

Are you guys ready to feast on free land shrimp?

>> No.4473389

>>4473384
a lot of people are interested in making this a viable protein source for the future.

personally not interested at all. don't like shrimp either.

>> No.4473394

Where in the US can I find these?

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>>4473389

>>4473394

I think only on the east coast for this batch, not sure if they have them everywhere but just isn't their time yet

>> No.4473413

I'm willing to let bug protein feed the developing world but there is not a fucking chance i'll ever eat it

>> No.4473679

>delicacy

that means it tastes terrible, don't ever let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise

>> No.4473695

but how much meat is on them?

and I am really looking forward to cicada year this year, the last big one when I was a kid was great

>> No.4473697

I'd like to try grilled crickets, grasshoppers, and ants (apparently tastes like peanuts). Bug larvae sounds disgusting though.

>> No.4473702

Go to where they're swarming and just start grabbing them and stick them in a bucket with a lid. There are literally millions of them coming out in this batch, and they survive because they are in such great numbers they satiate their predators enough that they can mate.

Just fry or grill them, they're pretty clean because they've just been absorbing stuff from roots all their life. They don't taste that great, but they're free and good protein.

They shouldn't be compared to prawns, because prawns are delicious and cicadas are not.

>> No.4473710

>>4473702
>There are literally millions of them coming out in this batch
assuming sandy didn't obliterate all of them in the NY NJ area

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They're pretty docile bugs. If you grab one, they flip their shit and make screeching noises. As soon as you open your hand, they stop and just hang out in your hand until you push them off. With that said, the Cicada Killer population is going to fucking explode, but it won't be noticeable until next year.

http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/
Live map

>> No.4473723

I'd eat them

>> No.4473726

>>4473710
NY NJ have reported sightings and hearing of cicadas, they seem to be fine for the most part. Definitely reduced numbers, and I would say only harvest them around Virginia, Washington and the Carolinas

>> No.4473739

>>4473726
>NY NJ have reported sightings and hearing of cicadas
It'll be just like my chinese girl cartoons. I remember last time we got loads and loads of them.

I was trying to find the nutrient profile of cicadas and found this.
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/cicada%20recipes.PDF

>> No.4473782

>>4473697
I had fried grasshoppers before and they were just crunchy and salty

>>4473718
thanks for the map

>>4473726
> I would say only harvest them around Virginia, Washington and the Carolinas
why? pollution in other areas?

>>4473739
tldr saved for later

>> No.4473811

>>4473702

>millions

closer to billions

>> No.4473813

Huh
Honestly I might try it. There are always a ton of the motherfuckers hanging around my parents house.
Kinda looking forward to this, really. I like hearing the cicadas because it's a summer thing.

>> No.4473854

>>4473782
A mix of pollution, and potential reduced numbers of cicadas in those areas so you shouldn't mess with them anymore. I'd only harvest from rural areas. Ground pollution in urban centers like NY and NJ is pretty bad.

>> No.4474314

I've eaten one tastes like bbq and they varie in taste

like a carls jr burger sometimes with flavor sometimes with out

the flavor goes away to nothingness leaving you to think about bug, then when you chew it comes back

>> No.4474317

>>4474314
You are actually drunk.

>> No.4474321

>>4473679
I've noticed this.
If often means 'overpriced as fuck' too.

>> No.4474328

>>4473697
Theres this really low-budget fair that comes to my town in Indiana a few times a year, they've got this one stall that has all sorts of fried bugs.

Fried grasshoppers are actually pretty decent.
They fry them in butter and some sort of carmelized sugar. They kinda taste like really crunchy peanut brittle.
Its really fucking wierd later on though because the wings tend to stick to the top of your mouth.

Also, chocolate covered ants are the shit. I pop those things like a mouthful of raisins.
I'm not sure how they dip each individual one in chocolate though.. but its still good.

>> No.4474331

>>4473679
>>4474321
here we go again

>> No.4474477

>>4473739
Saved.

>> No.4475307

>>4473697
For some really I really want to try eating a tarantula.. Only the legs though, heard it taste exactly like soft shelled crabs.

>> No.4475317

>>4474328
I've had roasted crickets, didn't really taste like anything at all. Those wings do stick around for awhile.