Consuming Cicadas

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My intermittent / occasional aide-de-garden was here yesterday and mentioned that he had cooked and eaten about 7 cicadas. Freshly molted, fried up with garlic and Cajun spices. Good, he said, crunchy, with a sort of hint of mushroom flavor.

Well, after 17 years underground I suppose that can be expected.

While on the cicada topic - there are warnings that if you are allergic to shrimp you should not eat them. Also, cicadas are not kosher. No idea about halal.
 

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The FDA issued a warning about eating them:

“We have to say it," the FDA said in a tweet Wednesday. "Don't eat #cicadas if you're allergic to seafood as these insects share a family relation to shrimp and lobsters.”
 
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