As the country braces for hundreds of millions of of cicadas to surface after more than a decade, Zack Lemann, New Orleans’ Audubon Insectarium’s curator of animal collections, has been coming up with some interesting — or gross, depending on how you look at it — culinary treats featuring the noisy insects.
Lemann revealed some to the Associated Press. Among them, a green salad with apple, almonds, blueberry vinaigrette — and roasted cicadas. Not your cup of bugs?
“I do dragonflies in a similar manner,” Lemann told the outlet.
So what exactly do cooked cicadas taste like? According to the AP, the flavor can resemble “toasted seeds or nuts.”