I’ve written before about my failed effort to appreciate the nuances of Malort, the evil-tasting liquor that some people in Chicago perversely love. With Chicago now in the midst of mass emergence of cicada broods, I suppose it was inevitable that some Windy City tavern would come up with the idea of putting a cicada into a shot of Malort–and now that’s happened.
A brewpub in one of the Chicago suburbs is collecting cicadas, cooking them, and then dropping them into bottles of Malort. Patrons at the bar can throw back a cicada-infused shot for a mere $5. I feel confident in predicting that it would be the single worst use of $5 you can possibly imagine. It would be interesting to know how many people have actually ordered such a shot–and managed to keep it down.
The only positive quality of a cicada-infused shot of Malort would be that it can’t possibly taste worse than a regular, non-cicada-infused short of Malort.
Webner House 