No, I'm not kidding.
According to Dave, who recently ate a land shrimp on the Colbert Report. Colbert did not want to eat a land shrimp, or "bug" as he called it, but decided to try and make a writer eat one.No, I'm not kidding. Look at the video. And, no, it isn't funny.
(Left) Abigail Adams, a writer, not eating a bug in this picture. Painting by Benjamin Blythe, 1766, is in the public domain due to copyright expiry.
As a writer, I wondered whether Colbert fell into the common colloquial trap of using the term "bug" to refer to all insects. MightyIsis once had a grade school science teacher who was especially ferocious on this point.
Let's find out....
According to that font of all internet knowledge, wikipedia, the "true bugs" or "hemiptera" actually include cicadas, incidentally, the precise type of insect that Dave ate on the Colbert Report.
Not bad.
MightyIsis is impressed.
Cicada. One of the "true bugs." Not the exact one eaten, which was probably toastier. Image by Bruce Marlin, distributed under the Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.5 license.
