As the cicada invasion is hitting its peak in the nation’s capital, NBC’s Hallie Jackson reports on how residents are finding creative ways to use cicadas and tries an edible “cicada scampi.”
» Subscribe to MSNBC:
About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives. Reaching more than 95 million households worldwide, MSNBC offers a full schedule of live news coverage, political opinions and award-winning documentary programming — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Connect with MSNBC Online
Visit msnbc.com:
Subscribe to MSNBC Newsletter: MSNBC.com/NewslettersYouTube
Find MSNBC on Facebook:
Follow MSNBC on Twitter:
Follow MSNBC on Instagram:
'Delicious': Hallie Jackson Eats ‘Cicada Scampi’ As Invasion Peaks
Uuuummmm….no
It doesn’t get more “Something only privileged gringos” would do 🤣
@Nicolas Mendoula That’s how I became a homosexual… 🤣
@Zero Cool by eating strange things out of curiosity ?
@Nicolas Mendoula By eating dude’s butts in college.
Only Americans think it’s a gringo thing. People all over the world eat arthropods. They eat grasshoppers in Mexico.
@Zero Cool well I hope you two enjoyed it
Maybe I’d try it someday, though I’m a little scared to see the after-effects of it all. Sometimes international food can be weird or disturbing among the sight, but still delectable, once people give it the chance. They just need to be careful, with how it all looks and tastes.
cicadas emerge, see swarms of humans. ‘they were just everywhere, making everything filthy. thank god my life span is so short.’
There life spans are actually fairly long. It’s just that most of it is subterranean.
With inflation trending the way it is then this might soon be the only food supply remaining.
There’s plenty of food we currently grow enough to feed a population of 10 Billion people, but unfortunately 80% of world grain and Legumes is fed to the 70 Billion animals unnecessarily bred for eating every year.
So, I guess the cicada munchers haven’t heard about the fungus that’s infected 10% of those cicadas. It makes their butts and genitals fall off. Yummy. If you’re going to munch on a cicada, and your junk falls off….well, karma. 🙂
😂😂😂😂
This reminds me to watch ‘The Beast Within’ 🤣
Insects really aren’t too different from shellfish as food. Insects also require less resources to farm than livestock for comparable amounts.
They also thrive on carnage and live in compost heaps. So no thank you…
@Joe Boyko shrimp and lobster are bottom feeders.
@Wking That’s precisely why they were traditionally considered “garbage food” at one time and reserved for the lower class and prison inmates. People were conditioned over time to accept it as a high end delicacy. Lobster used to be so abundant that it was also used as fertilizer…
@Joe Boyko Yup. They would give the rowers on ships lobster thinking it was lesser food. Who knew they were creating body builders
@Joe Boyko That’s because lobsters washed up on beaches dead and that’s what they cooked and fed to prisoners. Once someone got the idea of cooking live lobster that’s when demand started to rocket.
I have never seen these kinds of insects! Human eats almost everything!
Kudos to nature and the 17 year cycle.
I ate all kinds of bugs, insects, and others like snakes and rice field rats to survive the death camps after the VN war in 70s. In other parts of the world, they have been eating them for a long time ago. Natural sources of protein!
Don’t eat bugs.
I remember lots of cicadas in Baltimore as a kid. Wow, this is so gross! God bless everyone dealing with this! 🤮
There’s a whole lot of other animals I’ll eat before I eat bugs.
You will own nothing and you’ll be happy….also, you’ll eat bugs and like it.
_”Ahhh, the cream-filled kind! Slimy, yet satisfying!”_
1st thought that came to my mind as well…Hakuna Matata
Yes we get it, bugs cooked properly can be reasonably tasty. And ten years from now we will hear about how entophagy is actually causing environmental concerns.
I would rather be in a car than at the dinner table when I say ” Pass the cicadas please”.
Be careful a key doesn’t stick to your forehead after eating it.
She has some of the prettiest brown eyes!