The 17 year cicadas are about to emerge. I have Tokays and was wondering if they would make good food or not. I relize the cicadas are like an inch and a half long, but if I can, I'd like to use smaller ones as food....
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Cicadas anyone?
daveman
May 01, 2004 12:55 AM
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lilroach56
May 01, 2004 07:38 PM
Cicadas are bad food for herps for 2 reasons.
1) not gutloaded
2) have been living and eating in soil for 17 years that has fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides in it, VERY TOXIC.
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zhenchok
May 05, 2004 09:55 PM
My local talk radio station has been talking about how europeans consider them a delicacy. They have bringing this subject up for over a month. Some people that called in still have the ones frozen from the last time they were out. They eat them when they come out of their larvae state, they have soft skin then. I'm from the Ukraine, and I think that if you would tell people that you eat bugs, they would probably think youre a weirdo and kick your ass. Has anyone else heard this about cicadas?
