U.S. cicada ice cream seller told to cool it

[kristopher]

U.S. cicada ice cream seller told to cool it

COLUMBIA, Missouri (AP) -- A public health official in the U.S. state of Missouri has asked an ice cream shop to cool it with the cicada ice cream, even though customers apparently can't get enough of it.

Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream sold out of its only batch of the insect-filled dessert within hours of its June 1 debut.

Employees collected the cicadas in their backyards and removed most of the dead bugs' wings. They then boiled the bountiful bugs and covered them in brown sugar and milk chocolate. The base ice cream is brown sugar and butter flavor.

Gerry Worley, an environmental health chief with the Columbia County Department of Public Health, says the agency's food code "doesn't directly address cicadas" and that he has advised against their use as an ingredient.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/odd/news/20110608p2g00m0in074000c.html


Killjoy.

[marasinghe]

1. yeah, killjoys. commerce dept. should really be sponsoring exports to Japan.

Japanese Ice Cream flavors

http://www.asianoffbeat.com/default.asp?display=1897

http://listsgalore.blogspot.com/2008/08/20-most-outrageous-flavors-of-japanese.html

1. Beef tongue 2. Cactus 3. Charcoal 4. Cheese 5. Chicken wing
6. Chili pepper 7. Garlic 8. Goat 9. Octopus 10. Oyster
11. Pearl 12. Pit viper 13. Raw horseflesh 14. Salt 15. Shark fin noodle
16. Soy sauce 17. Squid 18. Tomato 19. Viagra 20. Wasabi

[Odin2005]

2. Dumbass anti-fun bureaucrats.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. But it's ok for Dannon to use dead bugs (carmine) to color their yogurts.

[MilesColtrane]

4. AAAMMMFFUUUUELLL!

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