Brood X cicadas emerged from underground after 17 years, and the phenomenon has impacted the news media too. On Monday, CNN’s Brianna Keilar actually ate a dead cicada on live television.
Chef Bun Lai is serving up cicadas at his family’s restaurant, and he helped walk Keilar through the process of preparing a cicada to eat, while an unbelievably-amused John Berman watched on. They could not stop laughing through the segment, but Keilar ended up saying, “Hey, that’s actually quite delicious.” You can watch that segment above.