Cicada ice cream has town buzzing

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Public health officials in Columbia have asked an ice cream shop to cool it with the cicada-flavored ice cream that customers apparently can't get enough of.

Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream sold out its only batch of the insect-filled snack within hours of its June 1 debut. Employees collected the bountiful bugs in their backyards and removed most of the dead cicadas' wings.

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The cicadas were fully cooked by boiling then covered in brown sugar and milk chocolate. The base ice cream is a brown sugar and butter flavor.