Posted
5/15/2004 06:23:00 PM
by Douglas
"He said they didn't taste too bad, but his wife didn't care for the aroma," said Dr. Al Ripani, the doctor who treated the man at Promptcare East.
It's 2004, and we're reading stories like
this:A man who cooked and ate nearly 30 cicadas sought medical treatment after suffering a strong allergic reaction to the sautéed insects.
The man showed up at a Bloomington clinic Thursday covered from head-to-toe in hives, and sheepishly told a doctor he'd caught and ate the cicadas after sautéing them in butter with crushed garlic and basil.
Of course, the idiot wouldn't eat a few of them. He had to eat
thirty of them before he'd consider if their exoskeleton would upset his
known shellfish allergy. Genius.
And entomologists from the University of Maryland have published a
Cicada-licious cookbook? What's up with these people?
Yummy: