<P> Grasshoppers are also featured in cinema . The 1957 film Beginning of the End portrayed giant grasshoppers attacking Chicago . In the 1998 Pixar film A Bug's Life, the heroes are the members of an ant colony, and the lead villain and his henchmen are grasshoppers . </P> <P> Grasshoppers are sometimes used as symbols . During the Greek Archaic Era, the grasshopper was the symbol of the polis of Athens, possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of Attica . Native Athenians wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolize that they were of pure Athenian lineage with no foreign ancestors . In later times, this custom became a mark of archaism . Another symbolic use of the grasshopper is Sir Thomas Gresham's gilded grasshopper in Lombard Street, London, dating from 1563; the building was for a while the headquarters of the Guardian Royal Exchange, but the company declined to use the symbol for fear of confusion with the locust . </P> <P> When grasshoppers appear in dreams, these have been interpreted as symbols of "Freedom, independence, spiritual enlightenment, inability to settle down or commit to decision". Locusts are taken literally to mean devastation of crops in the case of farmers; figuratively as "wicked men and women" for non-farmers; and "Extravagance, misfortune, & ephemeral happiness" by "gypsies". </P> <P> In some countries, grasshoppers are used as food . In southern Mexico, grasshoppers, known as chapulines, are eaten in a variety of dishes, such as in tortillas with chilli sauce . Grasshoppers are served on skewers in some Chinese food markets, like the Donghuamen Night Market . Fried grasshoppers (walang goreng) are eaten in the Gunung Kidul Regency, Yogyakarta, Java in Indonesia . In Native America, the Ohlone people burned grassland to herd grasshoppers into pits where they could be collected as food . </P>

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