>>>It's to tell someone to do something that they themself think is beneath them and would never think of doing that is insulting.
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>>Yes, you are right. I hadn't understood that part at first.
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>When I was in Korea few years ago, some of the local kids were eating a bug larvea called "puhn-doo-gee" for snack (cooked not raw). I tried it and it was quite tasty.
And while I lived in the jungle, I have eaten snakes, on several occassions. (Not exactly an insect <g>, but it seems that some people consider it disgusting.)
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)