Chocolate-covered cicadas are latest candy craze

Published May 31, 2021 1:00pm ET



Everything’s better dipped in chocolate — even pestilent insects that have been underground for 17 years.

A chocolate shop in Bethesda, Maryland, is joining the ever-growing list of places attempting to convince people to eat the Brood X cicadas. Chouquette Chocolates is using the emergence of the periodical cicadas as a marketing effort.

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