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

In a message dated 2004:03:12 05:25:41 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

>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.
    Don't forget the Australian Aborigines in the Outback.. Back in my
"Commonwealth Club"* days at the U. of Houston, I had the pleasure of eating "bush
grubs" packaged in a can from an Aussie Aborigine cooperative in the North
West. I wish I could get some more, but my friend from that area has lost contact
with me...

* an informal social group of student peeps from the former British Empire

>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.
    Both. Eat enough fresh bush grub and even one's thirst goes away...
temporarily.

>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.............
    ja, kebenaran. masih tua. makanan djelek.

    BTW _serangga_ is Indonesian for "insect"... such a lovely evocative
word...

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