Last time they came here in 2004 in large numbers I was going to try eating some like the Vietnamese and Thai people do. You are supposed to stir-fry the newly emerged ones. I am always trying to push my palate further into other culture's food and this was the furthest I could imagine. But when I went out and saw them struggling to emerge and live, mate, I got too caught up in their lives to kill any. They have really big eyes and seemed so earnest. I ended up helping some who had gotten lost and were going to die on the sidewalk get to a tree. The whole thing was really moving. Every tree was covered and the sound was amazing.
I might have overridden my don't-eat-bugs phobia, but their intense struggle to live got to me. I wouldn't do too well at a kill-it-yourself farm either I guess. But I do eat meat so I'm not above some major hypocrisy in the food department. I have no trouble killing fish and would be a regular Josef Mengele if I ever got into a school of shrimp. I wonder where I would draw the line if I had to do the dirty deed myself? I also didn't save the ones my cats got a hold of. They are the ultimate cat toy and some unlucky ones spent a little quality Guantanamo time with my two little waterboard experts. (the cicadas never gave up any names, but it was not for lack of demonic ingenuity from their feline interrogators. They kept them alive for a long time.) I see those guys on the travel cooking shows eating bugs all the time, so in the right context I'm sure I will chow down on bugs someday. I'm not in any hurry. --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18780937/ > > > > Swarms of cicadas emerging in Midwest > > Bllions expected after spending the past 17 years underground > > > > I don't know if Fairfield is one of the places they will hit > > in Iowa... > > Looks to me like we're either on the edge of it or just outside it: > > http://birdfreak.com/2007/05/21/brood-xiii-map/ >
