would you try insect ice cream? SOLD OUT IN AN HOUR!

[ballinouttacntrol]

http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/06/07/cicada-ice-cream_n_872704.html#s288827&title=Cicada_Ice_Cream

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A public health official in central Missouri has asked an ice cream shop to cool it with the cicada ice cream, even though customers apparently can't get enough of it.
Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Mo., sold out of its only batch of the insect-filled dessert within hours of its June 1 debut.
The Columbia-Missourian says employees collected the cicadas in their backyards and removed most of the dead bugs' wings. They then boiled the bugs and covered them in brown sugar and milk chocolate. The base ice cream is brown sugar and butter flavor.
Gerry Worley, an environmental health chief with the Columbia County Department of Public Health, says the agency's food code "doesn't directly address cicadas" and that he has advised against their use as an ingredient.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

just heard about this on the radio. here's what cicadas are incase you don't know

 

[brockfishhawk]

I would try it had the cicadas not been just randomly found outiside. Maybe lab raised in a quarentine situation where random parasites and bacteria would not be able to take hold on the insect. I mean... they boil them and that should kill anything too dangerous but pestacides and things that can be dangerous might survive the trip through the boiler.

 

[muffywrx]

LOL, that's my hometown. SWEEET!

 

[GhostShrimpMan]

Maybe, if everyone is saying that it tastes SO good I would be tempted.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

Maybe, if everyone is saying that it tastes SO good I would be tempted.

sold out in an hour...do you need any more stats?

 

[SumoNinja]

I would try it had the cicadas not been just randomly found outiside. Maybe lab raised in a quarentine situation where random parasites and bacteria would not be able to take hold on the insect. I mean... they boil them and that should kill anything too dangerous but pestacides and things that can be dangerous might survive the trip through the boiler.

i agree ^

i wouldn't eat this myself, but i would choose this over other gross foods people of different cultures eat. but if i did eat it, they'd have to be captive bred or whatever in a contained and controlled enviornment

i know some cultures eat poop and maggots and things like that. i'd scarf down some cicadas before the poo and maggots

 

[ceeej31]

Sounds pretty good actually, I'd be willing to bet that the bugs are more of a texture thing than taste.

 

[Neervana]

just heard about this on the radio. here's what cicadas are incase you don't know

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omg that made me feel so sick. thats so nasty. no disrespect to the people who have the guts to eat stuff like that but noooo way. i am scared of insects so this is like my worse nightmare. if i see a fly in my house i freak out lol

 

[xenia]

haha this was on the news and i would def try it i like bugs good source of protein speaking of that does that make the ice cream healthy? lol