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Get Your Cicada Ice Cream Here!

An ice cream shop in Columbia, Missouri decided to take lemons and make lemonade. Or rather, take cicadas and make ice cream. Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream shop in Columbia tried a new take on seasonal flavors: brown sugar, chocolate cicadas. The shop’s employees gathered the cicadas from their back yards, removed the wings, boiled the bugs and then covered them in brown sugar and chocolate before adding them to brown sugar and butter flavored ice cream. The ice cream sold out immediately. But the party-pooper local health officials stepped in and advised Sparky’s to stop using the insects in food. Cicadas are actually a good source of protein. I guess if you can drive to McDonald’s and get a Big Mac, then you shouldn’t be allowed to eat a bug. Boooooo!
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