Can I just put them in my mouth but not eat them if I want to scare children by opening my mouth so that they make that noise so children will think that the noise is coming out of my mouth and then fly out at them for the coup de grace?
PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all
Submitted 11 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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xkbx@startrek.website 11 months ago
ickplant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes, was about to link this, this legit sounds cool.
Not as good as beetle helicopter noises, but close.Also you can scream back at it from real close.
TommySalami@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
flicker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Really, it’s the most believably apex predator behavior I’ve seen in humans.
duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Where are you seeing dread? Most of the cicada news I’ve seen falls between “this is a cool curiosity” and “this happens regularly and is perfectly fine”. Also plenty of articles about eating them.
treadful@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
The sound of an awoken brood looking to fuck is maddening and inescapable. I absolutely dread experiencing that again.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That this occurred to someone is just more proof that groceries cost too much.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah, this has been a thing for a WHILE. My great grandma had cookbooks from the 1910s with recipes for cicadas.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Can we see, if only a page, of those books? Please?
That is the kind of unusual things from other times every person should get in touch with.
Femcowboy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I’d love to eat a CLT.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 11 months ago
“shellfish”
You mean sea insects?
ickplant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you really want to read the shitty article. TL;DR don’t eat them raw.
protist@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Certainly, if I were to eat a cicada, I would choose to eat them when they’re in what we call the teneral state or when they’ve just molted, and they’re still soft," Benson said. "They don’t have the wings fully developed, and I wouldn’t eat a cicada raw; I would cook it.”
essell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but the experts were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
bleistift2@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s interesting that even on lemmy people aren’t so open-minded to give eating insects a chance.
skulblaka@startrek.website 11 months ago
I’m all for it being an available food source, but I’d rather it not be my available food source. If my choices are to eat bugs or die, fuck it, cook me up some bugs. But in any other situation I would find it difficult to handle my instinctual revulsion if I knew what I was eating.
essell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not true, I eat prawns!
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
High would youblook at that, I’m allergic to shellfish now.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Til: insects and shellfish are basically the same thing.
Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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!
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not just shellfish! They’re all part of the arthropod family! So that would also include lobsters and crabs!
LaVacaMariposa@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Bug meat
stefenauris@pawb.social 11 months ago
It never even occurred to me to try
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 months ago
What if I am allergic to cicadas?
ickplant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re making me think of all the drug commercials that says “Don’t take this drug if you are allergic to this drug.” Bitch, how do I know if I don’t take it first?
Assman@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Cicadas are delicious
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I feel so lucky to have been here for this discussion today.
KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
As someone with a shrimp allergy, I have to be careful with my coffee too. Certain regions, such as Colombia, are notorious for high cockroach content in their coffee.
Apeman42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And now I’m even more glad that I buy whole bean rather than ground coffee.
aport@programming.dev 11 months ago
I buy whole bean then toss in a roach or two so I get the full experience, fresh right in my kitchen.
ickplant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh god, I like Colombian coffee. Excuse me while I retch.
FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’ll have you know roachfee is a sustainable alternative to pure coffee. /s
More seriously it looks like this is primarily based on anecdotes and was directed at ground coffee vs whole beans.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As an avid coffee drinker… WHAT THE FUCK!?