Should Missouri ban insect ice cream?

A Midwestern sweets shop makes a splash with its cicada-flavored dessert... until the health department squashes the initiative

Cicadas
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Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream, a frozen treat shop in Columbia, Missouri, had just begun selling an inventive (and surprisingly popular) insect concoction — cicada-flavored ice cream — when a health department official asked it to stop. What inspired Sparky's to create this sweet, buggy dessert, and why have officials soured on it? Here, a brief guide:

What are cicadas?

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