"cheesy bugs"

**sonia ann** · 16-04-2009, 09:20 AM

Ok ...so the children are doing a bug hunt at the moment...... am I the only person to call wood lice "Cheesy bugs".....I've always called them that since a child.......my hubby thinks I'm mad....but it must have come from some where!

**angeldelight** · 16-04-2009, 09:22 AM

Oh I thought you were going to tell us how to make and bake them for a second there ha

I have never heard of that saying but there again I call daddy long legs floaters so we both must be mad

Angel xx

**Pudding Girl** · 16-04-2009, 09:22 AM

never head of it before

**sonia ann** · 16-04-2009, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by angeldelight

I have never heard of that saying but there again I call daddy long legs floaters so we both must be mad

Read your post on floaters the other day and I thought at first you were talking about something totally different

**angeldelight** · 16-04-2009, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by sonia ann

Read your post on floaters the other day and I thought at first you were talking about something totally different

That is because you are mad and rude ha ha

xxxx

**katickles** · 16-04-2009, 10:24 AM

I am with Angel - thought it was going to be a receipe then.

I have never heard of Cheesy Bugs, oh & as for Angel's floaters, well what can I say!!

x

**huggableshelly** · 16-04-2009, 10:28 AM

cheesy bugs is a baking activity

floaters are found in loo's

so yep you are both strange but thats ok as I'm strange too so we can all be strange together yay!

(imagines children eating woodlice to see if they taste cheesy eww)

**Alibali** · 16-04-2009, 10:45 AM

Never heard of that one!!

**jibberjitz** · 16-04-2009, 01:46 PM

Never heard them called that before

**mushpea** · 16-04-2009, 03:08 PM

when i was little i called them 'piggys' and still do and have to remember when showing the kids that they are called woodlice!
as for a cooking activity how about cutting a bug shape from puff pastry and sprinkling with cheese then cooking them, like cheese straws but cheesy buggs

**sonia ann** · 16-04-2009, 04:04 PM

just found this on wikipaedia

Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. A number of common names make reference to the fact that some species of woodlice can roll up into a ball. Other names compare the woodlouse to a pig.

Names include: "armadillo bug" , "cheeselog" (Reading, Berkshire) , "doodlebug" , "pill bug" , "roly-poly" , "potato bug", "sow bug", "roll up bug" , "chuggypig", "slater" and "gramersow" (Cornwall)

cheesy bug doesn't seem so odd now