I hate these bugs!!! They are the dumbest of gods creations. And, they get everywhere. There is nothing like a Cicada buzzing right past your ear. Don't you wish you had some?:-) |
If they are near you, go out to a park and experience it, if you haven't. It's kind of majestic. For the first five minutes. Then it gets damn annoying. |
I *hate* huge flying bugs. June bugs even (although I know they're harmless) make me wanna just pee myself in total fright. The cicadas though...as much as I'm certain the minute I saw one within 5 feet of me, I'd run screaming like a 3 year old, fascinate me. 17 years underground just to live and mate for a year... It's amazing really. |
i sometimes miss the sounds of the east and south...at night, in the summer, maybe after a rain. its moist and all the bugs chirp. its not like that here. |
I think it'd be worth giving up the chirps for that. |
i miss sweet tea. my brother came here. poor boy. never been further than a 400 mile radius of Atlanta. He came here. At a restaurant, ordered 'sweet tea'. They just looked at him. I had to explain that its just tea here, and there is sugar on the table. |
The sound is definately something. Off in the distance it is quite neat. But, when one buzzes by your ear and lets loose...it's down right painful. I remember the first time I ever experienced these things, they were everywhere. You couldn't walk anywhere without stepping on them. They don't seem to be quite that plentiful this time around. Thank god. But, they are still all over the place. |
You learn to love the sweet. Except when it's the only thing that keeps you from melting into a lumpy pile on the living room floor in about, oh mid-august. |
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Cicadas are good fried. |
Growing up in Texas my entire life, there is a mixture of places that serve "tea" and those that serve "sweet or unsweet." I think I get the best of both worlds. As far as cicadas go(some people call them locusts around here), in the deep summertime, you can find parking lots full of them in the middle of the night. I was driving around with the windows down last summer and stopped at 7-11 to get some cigs and I think I left with half the lot in my car! Needless to say, I roll up my windows before I pull in now. (Shuddering when I think back) Did anybody else play with their shells after they were shed when they were little? |
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oooh. do they crunch? |
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As far as cicadas go.....lame ass story. I had never heard of them before. When I moved to Misery (for those of you who don't know Missouri), my best friend (from high school) and I were laying in my apartment (in my parents basement) and we were hearing this crazy LOUD ASSED noise. We heard this squeaking noise, and this squaking noise, and we thought my parents bed needed some serious oiling. We were yelling at the top of our lungs through the vents (and the noise definately carried cuz we could clearly understand their wispers) for them to finish up already and get the fuck out of bed, cuz we didn't want to know about it. Turned out the noise was the cicadas. Sounds like really fucking loud, badly oiled hinges of doors or beds or something. OK, I have shared my lame assed story now. |
so do they call it iced tea too, or is that different, or just a different term? i just started making my own iced tea at home, realizing how cheap it is and I'm an idiot for buying it all this time. But it's always kinda bitter. Perhaps you southern folk can help me out. I take 8 cups of water and bring it to a boil, then take it off the heat and let 3 teabags steep in it for an hour. Then i put 3/4 cup of sugar in a pitcher and take the teabags out, pour the (still warm) tea/water into the pitcher, stir, and let it sit till it gets to room temperature. Then put in the fridge. I also add a little lemon juice. But it's pretty bitter and cloudy! I still drink it though, cuz i'm cheap. |
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brood x don't give a fuck about the hominids. |
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i make sun tea. a glass, one gallon jug. insert 4 bags. water. place in direct sun all day. by supper time. its done. |
that is wrong on so many levels, tho' ah w'd speck as much fum an assbackwards southerner. unless you are talking about the hot tea that is the precursor to iced tea, then I guess it's not so bad. the sun tea method is probably the best way to make regular iced tea in large quantities that tastes the best. my favorite, as I know I have mentioned elsewhere around here is jasmine lime iced tea. make some limeade, make some jasmine green tea, chill both, put it in the same glass, mix lightly, throw in some ice. yum! |
It should not be steeped longer than about three minutes. And, you need one or two more tea bags. Sun tea is different though. Since, it is made without actually "cooking" the tea, the bags can stay there for a long time. |
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oh, and never boil the water if you're making a green tea based ice tea, like the jasmine lime kind. |
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you will all have to mail me a sample, in a small thermos, and i will decide who's iced tea is the Best of the Board. |