What wine to pair with fried cicadas? Best answer gets a Chien Noir hat.

Around here cicadas are served with a robust wine concoction called "Shake Um Up". Prepare as follows: Select your favorite fortified wine (MD, Hostess and Bone's work well). pour into a large container such as a discarded gallon milk carton. Add 2 or 3 jiggers (or to taste) grain alcohol. Add one or two bags of grape Kool Aid and then "Shake Um Up".

The attire for gentlemen should be cut off bib overalls sans shirt (a la Bruce on Swamp People). Shoes are optional.
Ladies will need nylon stretch pants and tube tops. Both of these ensembles will allow full view of your body art.

For music, nothing would be more fitting for such an occasion to honor those that could not attend by playing: "I fought the law and the law won", "Flosom Prison Blues", "I found Jesus on the Jailhouse floor" and everyone's "He's in the Jailhouse Now"

I should note that after a couple of "slugs" of Shake um UP your guest most likely won't see well enough to tell what anyone is wearing or hear the music anyway.
Have Fun!
 
For the wine, I would think a nice Shirazzzzzzzzzzz...
Music - anything by Alison Krauss, but don't forget to play Janis Ian's "I Learned the Truth at Seventeen" at least once during the evening.
Attire: Men should wear sub tropical, floral themed print shirts, untucked of course, over just past knee length khaki cargo shorts, along with sandals over either black or white socks depending on the formality of your occasion. Women should strive to display anything "perky" as per Caj's now infamous definition.
Protection: A S&W Governor - stuff your cargo shorts pockets with a mix of .45LC and .410 shotshells so you are covered whether the insects attack singly or en masse.
 
Walkin' Jack said:
I always prefer Boone's Farm Wild Mountain Grape with fried Cicadas. The Picante boquet compliments the slightly earthy flavor of the bugs.
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Lemme add for:

Music: during daylight hours - something funky by ZZ Top, After dark - something soft and dreamy by the Carpenters

Attire-for men: White linen pants and Sperry topsiders with no socks, A horizontal striped navy blue and white boat-neck pull over shirt. Double breasted Navy blue blazer with a white silk hankie in the brest pocket.

Attire-for women: very short white shorts (ala Daisey Duke) and a very brief white top with cornflower blue polkadots that show lots of tummy and white flip-flops with cornflower blue toenail polish. (Under no circumstances may Crocks be worn)

Protection: Acme stainless steel wrist rocket w/3/8" ball bearings
 
A short downloadable cicada cookbook

Just found this little PDF cicada cookbook and thought I'd share.

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/cicada recipes.PDF

It's got 15 or so recipes, including appetizers, main dishes, and desserts. They're serious recipes, not jokes.

Some of them sound kind of good:

Shanghai Cicadas
Cicada Stir-Fry
Maryland Cicadas
El Chirper Tacos
Southern Cicada Tartlets
Banana Cicada Bread
Cicada-Rhubarb Pie (yum!)

Nothing about wine or protection, though.

Enjoy! :)
 
I would serve Cicadas with some fava beans and a nice chianti. (Insert slurping sounds here).
 
Id drink a light, but sweet Riesling wine. should off-set any bitterness LOL.

For music, id go with some Kenny G. the ambient but upbeat tunes should set the mood.

For attire, id go with a french blue polo/ beige khaki's and a pair of:
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"What wine should be paired with cicadas?"

give your guests a choice.....
 

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So? Who Wins the Hat!??

Must be some law about having a contest that advertizes a prize and not delivering said prize?

I need to speak with a Lawyer.:D
 
Friends, Romans, Countrymen and Country dogs,

First, an apology to all for the delay in announcing the winners (suffice it to say that I was forced to spend most of the last 3 months assisting some extended family members with various problems, mostly out of state and then trying to get a complex cardiac arrythmia issue straightened out -- I did figure out that those folks who use those V-fib paddles to restore one to a normal sinus rythym think that shocking with a gazillion volts is a hoot - but I digress)

The panel of judges was duly convened: a possum, an armadillo and a skunk on a country road in Cameron Parish -- this august panel of judges spent the better part of two months making a decision while they lay around on said road, not moving very much and talking very little. After much deliberation, the judges announced a 9 -way tie:

Vytoland, rocketdog, Snubbyfan, Rule 3, Shouldazagged, Straightshooter 2, A10, Mc5aw, and Cwspook -- said gentlemen and epicureans are hereby kindly asked to send me a PM with their preferred mailing address so that prizes may be mailed.

Thanks to all who took part -- the judges remain mute on the final deciding criteria but assured me it was a very difficult decision. Hence, the 9-way tie.

All the best,

Bernie
 
Hi:
Wine: Keg of Beer with Jim Beam on the side
Dress Attire: Toga
Music: Rap
Weapon: Glock and Taurus

(have fresh donuts for the responding L.E.Os due to noise complaint, plus a stalk of bananas and sack of peanuts in case a certain individual learns that Glocks and Taurus is at the gathering)
 
COL Jagdog said:
Friends:



Best response gets a "Chien Noir Farms" camo hunting hat
these are much-sought after in this venue - with an embroidered picture of a black dog (a "chien noir") holding a duck ("canard") in his mouth on the front of the hat.

Fixed that for you - - - as they say in Forked Island.
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