ahmad ibn almuthanna told me that they used to take the locusts that were removed from his table and if they were stained they would rub them vigorously. if they had lost a part of them they would cut them with a knife from the squares of the loaf in the same way so that whoever saw them would not doubt that they had done that. if they were halves and quarters they would put some of them for tharid and cut some of them like fingers and put them with some of the qalayas.
وحدثني أحمد بن المثنى أنهم كانوا يعمدون إلى الجرادق ٦ التي ترفع عن مائدته، فما كان منها ملطخا دلك ذلك دلكا شديدا، وما كان منها قد ذهب جانب منه، قطع بسكين من ترابيع الرغيف مثل ذلك، لئلا يشك من رآه أنهم قد تعملوا ذلك، وما كان من الأنصاف والأرباع، جعل بعضه للثريد ٧ ، وقطع بعضه كالأصابع، وجعل مع بعض القلايا.