Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

In a message dated 2004:03:14 06:19:40 AM, draqonfayir@JUNO.COM writes:

>NatCulture:
>
>Since we went off on a JewwieTangent not so long ago, you may be
>interested in knowing that Yemenites are the only Jewish culture known
>to still eat locusts/grasshoppers (cf. Leviticus 11:21-22).  Although i
>haven't really heard of any locust-eating going on in Israel.  Maybe
>they only did it back in Yemen.  From what i've heard, it always seemed
>to be more of a famine necessity thing than a cuisine thing.
    I tried roasted locust with honey a la John the Baptist. But it was
rather tasty and only a tad crunchy (like partially cooked rice) as the locust was
between sheddings thus still fairly supple/soft/gooey ;) Very earthy taste
altogether...

>ObConCulture/Lang:
>
>The Rokbeigalm probably eat all kinds of things that i can't and/or
>won't, including bugs of various kinds.  But i have no words for any of
>them yet.
    But that means ya will rectify that lack soon, right, right, eh 0_o???

>-Stephen (Steg)
>  "'intzalbeih!' is still stuck in my head"
    A brain bug?


In a message dated 2004:03:14 07:16:12 AM, herodote92@YAHOO.COM writes:

>I did eat dried termites in Ivory Coast. Bought them
>on the market, in a city of the West, wrapped in a
>neswspaper sheet. They're considered as appetizers.
>With a glass of gin-tonic, it's not that bad. Heard
>there was much proteines in them, but maybe that's a
>legend.
>
>But I could never find any snake meat in the country,
>although I asked many times. People invariably replied
>"we don't eat snakes, but the people in the next
>(village, area, region, country) do". So I ate monkey
>meat. It's rather dangerous, because they are known
>for carrying parasites. Anyway, it seems strange to
>have a cooked hand with forearm in your plate: by the
>size, it looks very much like a human child's (they
>are small monkeys, not gorillas).
>
>Good appetite to everybody.
    I don't think eatin' Higher Primates too odd culturally, but cuz I
support Animal Rights to an incomplete degree (I am not yet vegetarian - too
Cantonese to give up all meat), I find the poaching and consumption of said animals
ethically wrong. Besides monkeys are one of my totem animals and what would an
African eco-safari be w/o monkeys?

---
Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk] <A
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