Hundreds of workers had lined up in two long rows in the pre-dawn darkness, ready to vote in a union election last Saturday morning. Pointing down the line of workers, he gestured: “Look at all the t-shirts.” “We’re very humble, like chapulines, and there are a lot of us, like we’re all piled up together on a plate.” Another reason he liked the similarity was the color: a plate of chapulines is reddish brown. ![]() One worker standing in line in the edge of a San Joaquin Valley blueberry field laughed at the name. When they’re toasted with lime and garlic, they’re a delicacy that’s as much a part of Oaxacan indigenous culture as mezcal or big tlayuda tortillas. Chapulines are small insects, like grasshoppers. Sometimes they call themselves chapulines.
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