Editing Armadillo (section)

=== Culture ===
[[File:210_Museu_de_la_Música,_el_Bosc,_charango.jpg|thumb|A traditional charango made of ''armadillo'', today superseded by wooden charangos, in [[Museu de la Música de Barcelona]]]]
Armadillo shells have traditionally been used to make the back of the ''[[charango]]'', an [[Andean music|Andean]] [[lute]] instrument.

In certain parts of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], armadillo meat is eaten; it is a popular ingredient in [[Oaxaca|Oaxaca, Mexico]]. During the [[Great Depression]], Americans were known to eat armadillo, known begrudgingly as "Hoover hogs", a nod to the belief that President [[Herbert Hoover]] was responsible for the economic despair facing the nation at that time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://armadillo-online.org/food.html|title=Armadillos as Food|website=armadillo-online.org|access-date=2019-11-21|archive-date=24 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024191137/http://armadillo-online.org/food.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/summer/hoover-2.html|title=The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover, Part 2|date=2016-08-15|website=National Archives|language=en|access-date=2019-11-21|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101060219/https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/summer/hoover-2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

A whimsical account of ''The Beginning of the Armadillos'' is one of the chapters of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]'' 1902 children's book.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kipling|first1=Rudyard|title=Just So Stories|date=1902|publisher=Macmillan|url=https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1294/the-beginning-of-the-armadillos/|chapter=The Beginning of the Armadillos|access-date=6 July 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182923/https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1294/the-beginning-of-the-armadillos/|url-status=live}}</ref> The vocal and piano duo [[Flanders and Swann]] recorded a humorous song called "The Armadillo".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973628714|title=The complete Flanders & Swann|date=1996|publisher=International Music Publishers|oclc=973628714|via=Open WorldCat}}</ref>

[[Shel Silverstein]] wrote a two-line poem called "Instructions" on how to bathe an armadillo in his collection ''A Light in the Attic''. The reference was "use one bar of soap, a whole lot of hope, and 72 pads of [[Brillo]]."<ref>{{cite book |author=Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine |title=Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine [student Yearbook] |publisher=College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hW9WAAAAYAAJ&q=%2272+pads+of+brillo%22 |year=1999 |page=88}}</ref>