Some might cringe, but at one Maryland chocolate shop, 17-year-old insects are flying off the shelves.
Sarah Dwyer, of Chouquette Chocolates in Bethseda, started coating cicadas in chocolate and selling them when the periodical Brood X emerged this spring for the first time since 2004.
Now her chocolate shop has a ten-day backlog for cicada orders. They are delicious, she says.
“When you combine the chocolate, the cinnamon, and the nuttiness of the bugs, it really gives you that holiday feeling of when you’re walking around a big city and they’re roasting nuts on the sidewalk, that cinnamon…
