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Podcast. Yes. Billions of cicadas are above ground and a rare double-brewed emergence.

We talked about it on the show earlier this month and the conversation took a bit of a turn.

Of course you can eat cicadas. They're highly nutritious. They're very delicious. I had the

wonderful opportunity to try to feed cicadas to Jay Leno and Russell Crowe in

one occasion. Leno said they're they're better than Cheetos. I like to get the nymphs when they first

emerge from the earth. You can wash them off so they're nice and clean. You can then simply

saute them, a little olive oil, little maybe balsamic, a little garlic.

They're going to be really good.

That was entomology professor Michael Raupe, and his comments made us want to dig deeper into eating insects.

I know some of you are thinking you'd never eat an insect.

But more than 2 billion people around the world eat insects as part of their standard diet.

That's according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

And when we talked about the Cakeda double brood emergence,

I would have described my enthusiasm to taste insects as,

let's call it mild, very mild, but a lot has changed since

my conversation with Professor Ralph a few weeks ago, including my willingness to try ants

and crickets.

So it's crunchy, it's got like some crunch texture to it. It's earthy.

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