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

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.

--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> 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.

=====
Philippe Caquant

"He thought he saw a Rattlesnake / That questioned him in Greek: / He looked
again, and found it was / The Middle of Next Week. / "The one thing I regret',
he said, / "Is that it cannot speak !' " (Lewis Carroll)

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