"Jim Elbrecht" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:16:18 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>>I won't be looking for cicadas even if I *did* own a deep-fryer. But
>>the 17-year critters are returning again.
>>
>>I read this in another blurb from Smithsonian mag:
>>
>>http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food...0414-Weekender
>>
>>Tiny URL:
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/c45kgtp
>
> In the spirit of sharing-
> http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1314334
> Not just pizza, tacos & jello-- but peanut butter cups and a Maryland
> 'cicada boil'. [and links to a cook book]
>
>
>>
>>"Think of them like "land shellfish." Like shrimp, lobster and crabs,
>>cicadas are anthropods. Gaye L. Williams, an entomologist from the
>>Maryland Department of Agriculture told the Baltimore Sun: "They're in
>>the same animal group as shrimp and crabs, and people don't think twice
>>about that." (If you're allergic to shellfish, exercise caution when
>>experimenting with cicadas)."
>>
>>Um, if I say "pass the cicadas" what I'll mean is "no thanks, I'll pass!"
>>
>
> We get a few every year. If I see a bunch this year I might just
> make some of the peanut butter cups.

lol JIM!!!

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