That this occurred to someone is just more proof that groceries cost too much.
Nah, this has been a thing for a WHILE. My great grandma had cookbooks from the 1930s with recipes for cicadas.
You know what, I’m here for it. Anytime I hear about the cicadas coming back it’s always over the top dread. People freak out, and there’s so much acting like seeing a cicada is going to grind life to a halt. Everyone seems to lean into the bit.
The fact that the growing answer to the cicadas this year is a wildly different “fuck it, we’ll eat them and then they can’t get us” could not be more beautiful to me.
Really, it’s the most believably apex predator behavior I’ve seen in humans.
I mean honestly source? Free lean protein which I can acquire while circumventing price gouging and greedflation doesn’t seem like that bad of an idea. Maybe toast them bitches in the air fryer and put em on a sammich. Make a CLT.
If you really want to read the shitty article. TL;DR don’t eat them raw.
Til: insects and shellfish are basically the same thing.
For a long time; crab, lobster, crayfish were seen by the upper class as bugs of the sea and were very inexpensive. It’s only relatively recently did they become hella expensive. My 8th birthday party, I remember getting a pound of snow crab legs (including sides) for $6.99 at a nice seafood restaurant. I was born in the 90s, so it wasn’t that long ago!
Shrimps is bugs
Not just shellfish! They’re all part of the arthropod family! So that would also include lobsters and crabs!
Yeah, but the experts were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
I feel so lucky to have been here for this discussion today.
