And no, the customers are not eating the bugs unknowingly. They are fully aware they’re chomping down on cicadas in their ice cream and are totally fine with it! EW!! However, they won’t be able to do much longer. A public health official has come down on the shop, telling them they need to nix the bugs. Find out details after the jump.
(AOL) – Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Mo., sold out of its only batch of the insect-filled dessert within hours of its June 1 debut.
The Columbia-Missourian says employees collected the cicadas in their backyards and removed most of the dead bugs’ wings. They then boiled the 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.
