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Grasshopper · 04-11-2007, 01:05 PM

So Grasshopper is "Saltamontes"
and Cricket is "Grillo"....

What is Chapuline? A Nickname for anything that resembles a cricket or a grasshopper? In Oaxaca people eat what Americans call "crickets" but isn't the more literal translation "grasshopper"?

Thanks for your opinions!

Julio Jaubert · 04-11-2007, 02:43 PM

Chapul�n is a nahuatl word to name "grasshoper" not cricket. For example, Chapultepec means "grasshoper hill" and aztecs used the icon of a grasshoper on a hill to represent it. You can see a picture (almost at the end) of the simbol of Chapultepect in this link: http://downtheroad.org/Photo/7MexCit...thropology.htm
Evidently, the insect is a grasshoper.

Mexican Translator · 04-11-2007, 03:14 PM

Definitivamente: "grasshoper"

Grasshopper · 04-11-2007, 03:38 PM

Thanks for the replies! Why are they called Chapulines when I think they are crickets? Just a mistake maybe?

serrabecerra · 04-12-2007, 06:40 AM

They are not crickets. I have two friends from Mexico - one from Oaxaca and they both say they do not eat grillos they eat saltamontes. Chapulines is saltamontes.

Claudio Fernandez · 04-12-2007, 07:13 AM

a t�tulo informativo

Seg�n el DRAE: chapul�n=langosta, cigarr�n

en ingl�s: langosta=locust cigarr�n=cicada

Julio Jaubert · 04-12-2007, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by serrabecerra

They are not crickets. I have two friends from Mexico - one from Oaxaca and they both say they do not eat grillos they eat saltamontes. Chapulines is saltamontes.

Mmmmm! Yumi, yumi! Their taste is similar to dryed shrimps. Delicious with lemon and chili.

04-11-2007, 01:05 PM	#1
Grasshopper New Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: U.S. Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Help with "Chapulines" So Grasshopper is "Saltamontes" and Cricket is "Grillo".... What is Chapuline? A Nickname for anything that resembles a cricket or a grasshopper? In Oaxaca people eat what Americans call "crickets" but isn't the more literal translation "grasshopper"? Thanks for your opinions!

04-11-2007, 02:43 PM	#2
Julio Jaubert Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Mexico Age: 40 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 618	Chapul�n is a nahuatl word to name "grasshoper" not cricket. For example, Chapultepec means "grasshoper hill" and aztecs used the icon of a grasshoper on a hill to represent it. You can see a picture (almost at the end) of the simbol of Chapultepect in this link: http://downtheroad.org/Photo/7MexCit...thropology.htm Evidently, the insect is a grasshoper. __________________ Julio Arturo Torres Jaubert English-Spanish and French-Spanish translator

04-11-2007, 03:38 PM	#4
Grasshopper New Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: U.S. Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Thanks for the replies! Why are they called Chapulines when I think they are crickets? Just a mistake maybe? __________________ ~Supergirl

04-12-2007, 06:40 AM	#5
serrabecerra Forum User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 53 Rep Power: 38	Saltamontes They are not crickets. I have two friends from Mexico - one from Oaxaca and they both say they do not eat grillos they eat saltamontes. Chapulines is saltamontes.

04-12-2007, 07:13 AM	#6
Claudio Fernandez Forum User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Nueva York Posts: 31 Rep Power: 30	chapul�n a t�tulo informativo Seg�n el DRAE: chapul�n=langosta, cigarr�n en ingl�s: langosta=locust cigarr�n=cicada

04-11-2007, 03:14 PM	#3
Mexican Translator Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 260 Rep Power: 415	Definitivamente: "grasshoper"

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