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

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, March 12, 2004, 17:25
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.............