You are no doubt referring to the "palmetto bug" which is what I have
always called the American 'roach
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach>. But Wiki tells me
that I am (like many others) mistaken. The term palmetto bug is
supposedly only properly applied to the "Florida woods cockroach"
<http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/roaches/florida_woods_cockroach.htm>
Despite living in Florida for more than 11 years of my life I have
never seen one of these critters. Just as well I suppose.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/14/2014 2:28 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I was thinking more of those bugs - a terrestrial arthropod as aopposed to
> the content of the cocktail (I hope).
> Beyond that, it was a rather mysterious title out here.
> Andrew Fildes
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> Author/Publisher:
> The SLR Compendium:
> revised edition -
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> The TLR Compendium
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>
>
>
> On 15/01/2014, at 2:39 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> South Carolina (where Tina lives) is called the "palmetto state" from
>> the state tree, Sabal Palmetto. It's also the state tree of Florida. In
>> Florida they're usually called "cabbage palms" since the terminal bud at
>> the top of the tree was often boiled and eaten like cabbage by indians
>> and early settlers. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_palmetto>
>> Unfortunately, it kills the tree.
>
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