Cicada ice cream seller told to cool it

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The Associated Press


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COLUMBIA, MO -- A public health official in central 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 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.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:puke:

[Hal-9000]

I don't eat anything with a face :hand:


or things with more than 5 legs
or things that have mandibles
or things that look like they could eat me

[Muddy]

Fear factor!

[Acid Trip]

I don't eat anything with a face :hand:


or things with more than 5 legs
or things that have mandibles
or things that look like they could eat me

Cows, chickens, fish, elk, deer and pigs all have faces. I take it you are a vegan?

[Hal-9000]

Cows, chickens, fish, elk, deer and pigs all have faces. I take it you are a vegan?

no I'm a guy trying to make a poor joke based on a popular line from vegans :oops:

I live in cattle country bro, I've eaten more faces than Jeffrey Dahmer










:coat:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

There is an allowed amount of bugs in all of our food, dont see what the big deal is

[Hal-9000]

There is an allowed amount of bugs in all of our food, dont see what the big deal is

bugs, fecal matter, bacteria.....people would freak if they knew the allowable ingredients

[PorkChopSandwiches]

yeah, whats allowed seems very high

[Hal-9000]

as long as there's not peanuts or peanut by-products in my shit....I hate that :x

[minz]

as long as there's not peanuts or peanut by-products in my shit....I hate that :x

Yeah, we dont want you getting even more nutty now do we? :lol:

[Hal-9000]

*teabags Minz*



no, no we don't :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

There is an allowed amount of bugs in all of our food, dont see what the big deal is

I'm thinking that actually and purposefully taking bugs and then grinding them up to make ice cream might be just a shade over the FDA legal limit for bugs :-k

[Hal-9000]

I don't know if anyone remembers Bubblicious bubble gum.They had problems with the amount of spider eggs in their gum.

this stuff sneaks up in the weirdest spots....

[Teh One Who Knocks]

From an FDA handbook:


How Many Rodent Hairs and Insect Parts Are In ...


Here is a very brief sampling of the FDA's Food Defect Action Level list. They begin investigation when foods reach the action level they've set. According to the FDA, typical foods contain about 10 percent of the action level, but others say they contain more like 40 percent.

CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE LIQUOR

Insect filth: Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments

Rodent filth: Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined OR any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs

CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED

Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

RED FISH AND OCEAN PERCH

Parasites: 3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more parasites accompanied by pus pockets

MACARONI AND NOODLE PRODUCTS

Insect filth: Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

Rodent filth: Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

PEANUT BUTTER

Insect filth: Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams

POPCORN

Rodent filth: 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples OR 2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples OR 20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples

WHEAT FLOUR

Insect filth: Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams

[Hal-9000]

"....OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments"











Oh there's my dream job...examining food for insect fragments

[Teh One Who Knocks]

"....OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments"











Oh there's my dream job...examining food for insect fragments

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/default.htm

:tup:

[Hal-9000]

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/default.htm

:tup:

I'd hate that job.Knowing my luck I would be eating something like pizza pops for years and then one would roll across my lab bench.
We'd discover that pizza pops contain plutonium and will shrink your balls after ingesting them for months :|

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Mmmmmmmm....plutonium :homer: