A Maryland candy company is cooking up chocolate covered cicadas

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A Maryland candy company is selling chocolate covered cicadas to celebrate the emergence of the noisy insects that have spent the last 17 years underground.

Chouquette Chocolates is selling the cicadas -- dipped in either milk or dark chocolate -- online, but it also posted the recipe on its Facebook page for brave chefs looking for something to do with the bugs.Billions of cicadas from Brood X are emerging from their subterranean homes as temperatures warm up in the eastern United States. They'll spend the final days of their lives mating and making a tremendous racket as males work to attract females.

Read MoreChouquette Chocolates owner Sarah Dwyer told CNN affiliate WBAL that the end result tastes like chocolate covered potato chips."It's really crunchy because we air-fry them," she told WBAL.The cicadas are being prepared for their chocolate bath.Dwyer is also selling other cicada-themed chocolates that are insect-free for people who want to enjoy the bugs without eating them.

 

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That's gross! We have cicadas everywhere and they are gross!!🤮

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so American literally eats everything

Just give him alone please

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Yeah well there's a problem about them they're also infected with a type of fungus that could kill people if people eat them if you find one that has a white stuff coming out of their rear end is a toxic sport look it up.

Yuck that's just nasty.

I’d try it. No fear here

Life is like a box of chocolates...until you eat it

Well that’s newsworthy ! For CNN

They only come out every 17 years - leave them alone and let them do their thing and not treat them like a culinary experiment.

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Mmmm protein

Hmm crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. MAGA

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Looks so yummy 😋😋 wish I could get some.

or gotta go

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Where is the cicada pizza?

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Awful!

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looks like poops

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Let the ones who want to eat bugs eat bugs more meat for the rest of us 🤣

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Omw !! No

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