Chicago Bar Sells Cicada-Infused Booze

A bar in Chicago is shaking things up with a new shot that is Cicada-infused. Yeah, the large grasshopper looking things are used to make this booze and it even comes with a Cicada in it. Cicada Shots For Everyone We've all seen the Tequila shots that have the scorpion in it. Yep, you take the shot and then swallow the scorpion. Even the worm at the bottom of the Tequila bottle. That has become so normal now, no one thinks twice about it. Well a bar in Chicago named Noon Whistle Brewing is doing the same thing, but using Cicadas instead, according to a local Chicago news station. Now if you're like, Ew! Gross! Well that's probably how the Tequila/Scorpion combination started before it got popular, too. The bar uses Chicago's famous "malört" to make it. Now malört is already disgusting by itself. Now we're adding a giant insect that people hate. No way people are going to go for it. Well guess what? They are. It's their hot new drink of the summer, the bar is saying to media outlets. Related: Dorito-Flavored Liquor Coming Soon Let's Make Cicada-Infused Booze If you're wondering how it's made, they take a bunch of dead Cicada's and shove them in a bottle of malört. They let it sit for a while so the flavor of the Cicada blends in with the malört. That's it. They don't add anymore to it. The bar told Eater Chicago that the Cicada adds a lot more flavor to the already horrible tasting malört. They actually say it tastes like a succulent lobster. If someone were to have told me that's what it tastes like, I'd be inclined to try it. Noon Whistle Brewing sells the shots for $5. They pour the shot then toss in a dead Cicada to down with the drink, Eater reports. Now if you really want one, but can't afford to make it to Chicago to try it, it's not hard to make. People have already started making their own and posting it online. And if you think it's hard to find Cicadas, you are wrong. It's that season where they just pop out of nowhere and infest everything for weeks. The bigger challenge would be finding a place that sells malört since it's a Chicago thing.