EATING CICADAS.

EATING CICADAS. The seventeen-year cicadas are out in the Chicago area. I remember experiencing them in 1956 and 1990. The sheer number of them is thrilling. In 1990, a friend remarked that he had never seen such fat birds. This Yahoo article says that the Brookfield Zoo is feeding cicadas to the zoo animals. I recall a Wall Street Journal article that claimed that cicadas taste like a cross between an avocado and a raw potato. I have never investigated this.