Since we're on the topic of weird chocolate....

Since we're all about open minds here at Young Audiences, here's a story about some crunchy, munchy, mouth-watering chocolate covered bugs from our very own scheduling director, Angela's, hometown of Decatur, Illinois.

Decatur, IL--as well as much of central and southern Illinois--has been dealing with the 13 year cicada this summer. At my parents' house this means sitting out on the deck is out of the question for a few weeks, because the noise is incredible in a wooded neighborhood.

One local business has decided to make a fund raiser out of the creepy critters. This has got to be the worst example of the old adage "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" that I have ever heard. The staff at an assisted living facility agreed to eat a chocolate covered cicada for every $10 donated to the Central Illinois Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. The staff dietitian collected bugs from her own yard and made the "treats" herself at home. They raised $2000 dollars. That's right; they ate a collective 200 bugs.

-Angela

Hmm...perhaps a new fundraising idea for Young Audiences?

That's also the greatest picture of a man eating a chocolate covered cicada ever.