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RealJack

10-11-2008 08:19 PM

How to Eat Cicada.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How_...red_for_Great/

I thought this was kind of funny... and quite possibly something to consider for real. I've never actually tried it myself, but hey, you never know.

The link has photo's and further instructions.

Quote:

How to Eat Cicada. Get Prepared for Great Famine!

I always dreamed of eating cicada.

Pros:

Environmentally Friendly. Unlike common livestock, which need huge amount of grains or grass to produce meat, cicada feeds on a little bit of tree saps due to the fact that insects are heterotherm (do not used energy to maintain body temperature). Endotherms (mammals and birds) convert large portion of their energy to produce heat in order to maintain body temperature at 37C or 42C respectively.

Ruminants such as cows produce large amount of methane gas, which is 21 times more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. And a cow can produce up to 130 gallons of methane a day according to Los Angels Time ("Killer Cow Emission" Opinion 10/15/2007).

Cons:

If people start eating cicadas at once due to the needs for food or simply their good taste, you might drive them to extinction. They feed on tree sap while in under ground for several years (3~17). After they emerged from the ground, they last for up to a month. Fortunately, for now they are plenty.

buff01

10-11-2008 09:13 PM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

you first!

hystckndle

10-12-2008 09:07 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RealJack (Post 1352101)

http://www.instructables.com/id/How_...red_for_Great/
I thought this was kind of funny... and quite possibly something to consider for real. I've never actually tried it myself, but hey, you never know.
The link has photo's and further instructions.

Hello Real Jack !,
This is kinda interesting for those of us who visit the forest often.
Are you going to try it ?
( and BTW, how's the chickens coming ? )
Silver Regards,
Haystackneedle

SLV>GLD

10-12-2008 09:38 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

Eating cicadas doesn't disgust me in the least. Expecting to survive on something that gestates underground for 7 years and only reappears for a couple months is a dead idea.

GreenSpirit

10-12-2008 10:10 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

We eat bugs unaware all the time.
If you eat breakfast cereal you've eaten bugs.

They're just broken up into really small pieces.

Sugar-coated Bugs 'n' Flakes :)

Conk	10-15-2008 04:01 PM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

Heck, just grind them up and change the way they look. Add a little salt and olive oil. Who knows.

Ag Age

10-15-2008 04:15 PM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

Sorry I would really have to be starving my gag relex is just too strong... I think I would eat my neighbor before a bug.

SHTF	10-15-2008 04:54 PM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

Crow? Cicada?
Hve all the pizza joints closed their doors around you guise already??

shades2

10-19-2008 10:01 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

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Originally Posted by Conk (Post 1360132)

Heck, just grind them up and change the way they look. Add a little salt and olive oil. Who knows.

Mmm.. Tastes like chicken... ... chicken of the skies...

Silverbach

10-19-2008 10:12 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

When I was a kid I would go catch cicadas any change I got and I would eat any that I caught. It's not because of hunger: I would give up any food for cicadas. They taste good.

Forget about frying pans and cooking oil. The way to cook cicadas is put them through on a bamboo stick and put them directly on fire to fry.

You know the best part? The two pieces of muscle right beneath the wings!!! I guess for good reasons. Your link suggested tearing off the wings before cooking on a pan. How stupid that is, You would have teared off the best part together with the wings!!!

mtnman

10-19-2008 10:31 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

I think I'll let my chickens have them. I'll eat the chicken eggs!

Russkie

10-19-2008 10:44 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

In Moscow I won't be eating chicken of the skies, or cicada bugs.

It will be goats from the subway.

Golden Eagle

10-19-2008 10:52 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

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Originally Posted by GreenSpirit (Post 1352847)

We eat bugs unaware all the time.
If you eat breakfast cereal you've eaten bugs.

They're just broken up into really small pieces.

Sugar-coated Bugs 'n' Flakes :)

Ding Ding Ding!

Rice, flour, peanut butter, the list goes on and on...

The farmer does not shout out loud to his field "Ok you critters it's harvest time everybody out!"

Lol

StackerKen

10-19-2008 10:57 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

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Originally Posted by mtnman (Post 1367089)

I think I'll let my chickens have them. I'll eat the chicken eggs!

Yeah...what he said

Golden Eagle

10-19-2008 11:16 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

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Originally Posted by traderken (Post 1367127)

Yeah...what he said

Let's see, one person eats a bug and another a fetus...:111:

Half of you are eating in the dark.

Bottom line is something has been sacrificed for your survival.

RealJack

10-19-2008 11:31 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

Chicken of the skies. I like that...,:s1: though they taste more like tofu to me. Ahaha. Just kidding. I've never cooked up any bugs other than what doesn't get washed off the garden veggies or bug parts in grains and rice.

The reason I found this Instructable to be so funny is that I'm lucky to see more than three Cicadas a year. I hear them occasionally, but to actually hunt down a nice fat sack of Cicadas would take me about a decade.

shades2

10-19-2008 12:17 PM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

Cicadas are easy to catch, on hot days they'd be particularly chirpy, yet lazy, probably in a mating mood. We'd stalk and catch them at school as little kids with cupped hands as a competition. I had a catch and release policy though, wasn't interested in what they tasted like. They would make an excellent bait for fish, which is much nicer to eat and has far more high-quality protein.

Dapper Dan

10-20-2008 04:25 AM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

How bout some chilled monkey brains?

http://munchies.files.wordpress.com/...key_brains.jpg

Conk	10-20-2008 01:58 PM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

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Originally Posted by mtnman (Post 1367089)

I think I'll let my chickens have them. I'll eat the chicken eggs!

Eggsactly! Chickens need to eat freely to provide good meat and eggs. I hate reading "vegetarian feed" on the egg cartons in the grocery store, like that's a good thing.

silverJeep

10-20-2008 02:07 PM

Re: How to Eat Cicada.

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Originally Posted by mtnman (Post 1367089)

I think I'll let my chickens have them. I'll eat the chicken eggs!

My chickens went nuts this year over them. Problem was, it made the eggs un-eatable. Probably not REALLY bad for you, but they all smelled rotton. REAL BAD.

Cicadas went away, eggs are fine again.

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