>--> SOFT-SHELLED CICADAS - Lewis from BizarreNews <--< * WARNING: Don't Eat If Allergic To Seafood * Ingredients: 1 cup Worcestershire sauce 60 freshly emerged 17-year cicadas 4 eggs, beaten 3 cups flour Salt and pepper to season the flour 1 cup corn oil or slightly salted butter Directions: Marinate cicadas alive in a sealed container in Worcester- shire sauce for 1-2 hours. Dip them in the beaten egg, roll them in the seasoned flour and then gently saute until they are golden brown. Deep fried cicadas are preferred to be eaten with hot mustard or cocktail sauce. Any sauce used for lobster should also work well to garnish cicadas. ** NOTE: The best time to eat cicadas is just after the nymphs break open their skin and before the exoskeleton turns hard. It is best to collect these in the early morning, just after they have emerged but before they have time to climb up out reach. The best way to do this is to simply go outside with a brown paper bag and start scooping them in. You can cook with them immediately, or refrigerate them (they will remain alive but will mature much more slowly). * Warning: The FDA said people with allergies to seafood should steer clear of eating cicadas because of their relation to sea creatures. FDA tweeted. "Don't eat #cicadas if you're allergic to seafood as these insects share a family relation to shrimp and lobsters." *