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

Hanuman Zhang wrote:
>
>     OB-NAT-&-CON-LANG/CULTURE: Any language for the cleaning, cooking and
> consuming bugs? Any bug-a-vore cultures around? :)
>
I know that, at least, the Yanomami in S.America, and assorted groups in
Indonesia consider grubs (the nice fat white kind, as seen on TV's Survivor)
a major treat. They are said to satisfy one's craving for either fat or
protein (I forget which, perhaps both) in a diet that is otherwise
protein/fat poor.

Sources:  (Yanomami) class notes and book of Prof. N.Y.Chagnon; (Indonesia)
various comments in the older Dutch ethnographies and dictionaries. I'd
guess that eating bugs is nowadays considered kurang moderen, masih
primitif.............