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Introduction
Cicada ice cream is vanilla brown sugar ice cream, or your favorite ice cream, mixed with the insect, a Cicada. Although ice cream and cicadas have been consumed for many years, the ice cream combination first became notable in Columbia, Missouri 2011 at Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream. With experimenting in culinary, cicadas have found their way into ice cream, adding a crunch and protein.
History of Cicada
The two I’s, insects and ice cream, come from different times: insects have existed for around 410 million years while ice cream originates around 2,000 years ago. In specific, the insect known as a Cicada have been around for about 200 million years, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic period. Cicadas belong in a family with 3,000 different sound-producing species, and these insects can be found worldwide, mainly in forests, deserts, and grasslands. According to Britannica, “Cicadas have long been used in folk medicines, as religious and monetary symbols, and as an important source of food for humans and many other organisms.” As an important source of food for humans, humans began eating these insects thousands of years ago, typically popular in East Asia, specifically China and Japan, as well as indigenous cultures around the world. Consuming insects dates back to prehistoric times when humans would forage for food as they hold a sustainable amount of nutrients, specifically protein. Over the years, this delicacy clearly began expanding its ways of using it in the kitchen. You can cook these insects in different ways by either frying, grilling, boiling, steaming, or roasting. It can also be incorporated with certain salads, rice, with vegetables, with stir-fry, and even dipped in chocolate or caramelized. When these insects are eaten, they can have a nutty or earthy taste, but the final flavor depends on how prepared and cooked in the kitchen.
History of Ice Cream
As ice cream is known as a typical sweet treat, it really originated from mother nature, snow. In Ancient China and Ancient Rome, experimenting in the kitchen with snow became the start of what would be ice cream. Snow was mixed with milk, rice, honey, and fruit, which later was created into ice cream when the Italians created creamy frozen desserts using cream, milk, and sugar. Ice cream also started off as almost a status of royalty in ancient cultures. “Long before anyone made ices and ice creams, much less served them to kings, ice and snow were highly valued. They were hard to get, difficult to store, and expensive. In other words, they were perfect status symbols. Those who were able to acquire them flaunted them, using them to add elegance to tables, cool the air on hot summer nights, and crown foods.” (Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making Quinzio 2[1]) As it stands today, ice cream now is a beloved treat enjoyed across all ages and cultures, with over 1,000 different flavors, ice cream companies, and different toppings to go along with the extremely wide variety of ice cream. The one that stood as the craziest, maybe even the best in Columbia, Missouri, would be combining the two, flavored ice cream and cicada’s.
Career - Rave of ice cream flavor in Columbia, Missouri
Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia Missouri sold Cicada ice cream during cicada mating season as a way of combating the invasion of these insects. The Ice cream has a brown sugar and butter flavored base. Some compared the taste to that of peanuts. However, it’s not clear whether the taste or pure curiosity caused the popularity of this flavor but the first batch was sold out before it was even placed on display.
Major Achievements - Traction gained
Clearly people had taken a liking to this flavor and it made national news. Outlets such as NPR and CBS reported on the abnormal flavor and the frenzy it caused for many in Missouri. However this attention also brought concerns from the health department who flagged that the guidelines in which the ice cream shop followed for cooking temperatures did not cover cicadas. Sparky’s would have to put the second batch of cicada ice cream on hold.
Legacy / Impact / Influence - subject's long-term impact/influence
Columbia Missouri, home to the famous birthing of the exotic and unique ice cream flavor: Cicada ice cream. A flavor that has a peanut relish, melts in your mouth with apparent wings for an extra crunch. An homage to a traditional classic Native American snack, these little loud insects became a popular ice cream topping in the midwest. The historical emergence and nutritional value incentivized adventurous midwesterns to try. Sparky’s homemade ice cream in Columbia Missouri slowly became famous nationwide.
Today’s impact: a gateway for other local ice cream creators to make bizarre and interesting flavors for their customers. Cicada ice cream isn’t just for the average person, it is truly a flavor for an acquired taste. Thanks to curious minds more ice cream businesses and industries around the world are confident that something outside of the box may be as successful as this one.
Awards and Honors - legacy/how it’s remembered/recognized today
In 2011 when the Cicada Icecream flavor first came out at Sparky’s Icecream in Columbia, Missouri, the flavor sold out before it entered the display case. This led the owners to put up a sign on their door then announcing that the next batch of their famous Cicadas ice cream wouldn’t be made until 2024.
Now in 2024, the flavor has still impacted the ice cream community as a phenomenon that many will continue to use as inspiration for their next order. In June, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recommended considering adding cicadas to your ice cream as a topping. They go on to explain that on the podcast “Good Growing” one of the hosts, Ken Johnson, dives into the Western culture’s perspectives on eating insects as unique but not to many other parts of the world. Some University of Illinois Extension educators made an effort to explore the fascination of the tasty insects and even ended up trying them themselves, leading them to recommend the insects as a tasty add-on to your summer ice cream order.
Over ten years after the popular flavor emerged from Sparkys Icecream in Columbia, Missouri, it is still influencing others to try adding cicadas to their dessert.
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