have finally emerged on the East Coast. But this time around, the most adventurous among us won’t be satisfied merely hearing the deafening critters — some are preparing to cook these trending buggers up like a terrestrial crawfish boil.“You wanna eat the females because they’re full of eggs,” Gene Krisky, author of “Periodical Cicadas: The Brood X Edition,” told The Post.
Ditching the tired just-like-chicken comparison, he analogized their flavor to something more like “cold asparagus.” Now, a small but hungry crowd of intrepid epicures are headed toward the forests of the East Coast and Midwest, generating an intriguing buzz both online and in the flesh for the maligned pastime of bug-eating.
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