Tasting butterflies

[Grkovich, Alex]

Rudy,

This reminds of Big Jean Beliveau stating that "...VEE GADDE NOOO ROOKEEE,
BEEELEEE HEEKEEE" in 1960, and also this classic from Jacques Lemaire after
he scored the overtime goal in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals in 1970 (he
was, I think ) a roookeee himself: "WELL, MY AART SHEEE POUND WEN I STEP ON
DA HICE, BUT AFTER KOPPAL MINITS SHEEE DON POND SO WARY MUCH. DEN I SKATE
DOWN DA HICE, TAKE DA PASS FROM [Dickie] DUFF, POOT ER IN DA NET, WE WIN DA
GAME, ITS A GOOOD GOAL..."

Or, one more, this one by the Detroit Red Wings' coach Jacques Demers in
1987 about two weeks after he took over the team which had previously
floundered hopelessly and totally without discipline in last place. It seems
that a veteran defenceman had made a careless mistake in the last minute of
the third period in a tie game, gave up a goal and the Wings lost the game.
Everyone was "used to it". Demers, when asked whether the player would have
a chance to think about his mistake, said something like this:

"Oh, yah, eeee gonna tink about it a lot, eeee gonna ava lotta time to tink
about it wen eeee wake up tomorro mornin in Peoria."

Understand, I grew up in Canada watching "Hockey Night in Canada"  (or
"Ockee Night" in Montreal). I have multitudes of these kinds of memoirs.

Alex 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rudy Benavides [SMTP:rbenavid at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:36 PM
> To:	Leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject:	Re: Tasting butterflies
> 
> Have you ever eaten larvae?  If you have watched the tv program _Insectia_
> 
> with Canadian entomologist Georges Brossard, you may recall the episode he
> 
> did on the Aegiale hesperiaris skippers in Mexico.  The larvae, found at
> the 
> base of yucca and agave plants, are added to the individual bottles of 
> Mescal to provide its distinctive flavor.  But indigenous people in Mexico
> 
> also gather the caterpillars, deep fry them, and then season with their 
> flavorful spicy sauces.  In that particular television  episode, Georges
> was 
> seen helping his host dig out handfuls of the caterpillars at the base of
> a 
> yucca plant (?), then  showing how they were cooked, and finally helping 
> himself to a plateful....yumm.  I can still hear him in his distinctive 
> French Candaian accent saying....."ah, there ees notheeng more finer than
> a 
> plate of theese delicious gusanos de Maguey".....or sometheeng like that.
> 
> Rudy/Maryland
> 
> p.s. Brossard is the founder of the Montreal Insectarium, and the last i 
> heard was that he was also involved in creating one for Audobon in New 
> Orleans.
> 
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