This one is for you Renee, this is so gross! Someone here is Kentucky apparantly got tired of fried squirrel and decided to serve up cicadas instead. My stomach is just heaving at the thought of it. We ahve been plagued with cicadas this year, their screeching is deafening all day long. The trees are covered in them, they have actually broken branches from their weight. Ah! I am just not a bug lady!
Tuesday June 17, 2008
Deeeeelicious: Sun staff took a different approach to its research on the 17-year cicada Hint: It involves Crisco
By Acquanetta G. Donnell Jr.
People in Winchester have gotten used to the noisy 17-year cicadas being everywhere, but it may take longer to get used to the taste.
For the Sun’s Monday Webcast, reporters Mike Wynn and Katheran Wasson invited some people downtown for lunch. While other staff members shot video, Wynn rolled a few bugs in a light brown, seasoned batter, fried them in oil at 325 degrees, waited for them to cool off, then served them to visitors.
Attorney William Elkins, one of the participants in the cicada tasting, said, “It was just an irresistible temptation when (Wynn) invited me to join him in the sampling of this local delicacy.”
With several Sun staffers and passersby making up what Wasson referred to as the newspaper’s “first-ever audience” for its Webcast, Wynn, Elkins, Sun Community Editor Rachel Parsons, Clark County Emergency Management Director Gary Epperson and County Judge-Executive Henry Branham all sampled the deep-fried insects.
Not everyone could believe his or her eyes as the tasters popped the bugs into their mouths and chewed.
“Oh, my word!” said one woman, as others laughed.
“I think it sort of has a hushpuppy consistency,” Elkins said.
“It’s the best thing I’ve eaten all day,” Epperson joked.
When Wynn asked Epperson what it reminded him of, he said: “An insect.”
Later Wynn and Wasson took some carryout to Sheriff Berl Perdue at his office and let him try one.
“It’s not bad,” he said.
Asked what it tasted like, Perdue replied: “I would say chicken, but it doesn’t taste like chicken.” It was more like deep-fried bread, he added.
Parsons, who made a face when she bit into one, said they were crunchy, but “did not have much of a taste.”
“I don’t think I need to eat them again,” she said.
Elkins later said he would eat them again “if it’s for a good cause.”
Some people call cicadas “locusts,” but they are not closely related to real locusts, which look like grasshoppers. They neither bite nor sting, and only come around every 17 years for about a month.
According to National Geographic News, cicadas are said to be good for eating because they are low in fat and high in protein. They are considered a delicacy by many people around the world.
Contact Acquanetta Donnell at adonnell@winchestersun.com.Copyright:The Winchester Sun 2008 "
Deeeeelicious: Sun staff took a different approach to its research on the 17-year cicada Hint: It involves Crisco
By Acquanetta G. Donnell Jr.
People in Winchester have gotten used to the noisy 17-year cicadas being everywhere, but it may take longer to get used to the taste.
For the Sun’s Monday Webcast, reporters Mike Wynn and Katheran Wasson invited some people downtown for lunch. While other staff members shot video, Wynn rolled a few bugs in a light brown, seasoned batter, fried them in oil at 325 degrees, waited for them to cool off, then served them to visitors.
Attorney William Elkins, one of the participants in the cicada tasting, said, “It was just an irresistible temptation when (Wynn) invited me to join him in the sampling of this local delicacy.”
With several Sun staffers and passersby making up what Wasson referred to as the newspaper’s “first-ever audience” for its Webcast, Wynn, Elkins, Sun Community Editor Rachel Parsons, Clark County Emergency Management Director Gary Epperson and County Judge-Executive Henry Branham all sampled the deep-fried insects.
Not everyone could believe his or her eyes as the tasters popped the bugs into their mouths and chewed.
“Oh, my word!” said one woman, as others laughed.
“I think it sort of has a hushpuppy consistency,” Elkins said.
“It’s the best thing I’ve eaten all day,” Epperson joked.
When Wynn asked Epperson what it reminded him of, he said: “An insect.”
Later Wynn and Wasson took some carryout to Sheriff Berl Perdue at his office and let him try one.
“It’s not bad,” he said.
Asked what it tasted like, Perdue replied: “I would say chicken, but it doesn’t taste like chicken.” It was more like deep-fried bread, he added.
Parsons, who made a face when she bit into one, said they were crunchy, but “did not have much of a taste.”
“I don’t think I need to eat them again,” she said.
Elkins later said he would eat them again “if it’s for a good cause.”
Some people call cicadas “locusts,” but they are not closely related to real locusts, which look like grasshoppers. They neither bite nor sting, and only come around every 17 years for about a month.
According to National Geographic News, cicadas are said to be good for eating because they are low in fat and high in protein. They are considered a delicacy by many people around the world.
Contact Acquanetta Donnell at adonnell@winchestersun.com.Copyright:The Winchester Sun 2008 "
Posts
1 comments:
Hmmm. I guess I would try them, you know, if I was starving, or for a good cause. Maybe.
My sister had one fly in her hair once and get stuck. She said it started screaming. Freaky.
Post a Comment