The Week contest: Maggot meals

This week's question: New research suggests that Neanderthals, once thought of as "hypercarnivores" who mostly ate fresh kill, often subsisted on the fatty maggots that infested rotting animal carcasses. What name would you give a diet based around the maggot-heavy meals favored by our prehistoric cousins?
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THE WINNER: "The Paleolith-ick Diet"
Andrea Carla Michaels, San Francisco, California
SECOND PLACE: "The Fetid-terranean Diet"
John Bregoli, Weymouth, Massachusetts
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THIRD PLACE: "Larv Loading"
Larry Hance, Barboursville, Virginia
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Pestatarian Diet"
Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California
"Intermittent Gagging"
Cathie Solomonson, Troutman, North Carolina
"Unlimited Carrion Bugs"
Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts
"Stir Fly"
Joel Nelson, Goleta, California
"Ketewwwgenic"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"Ant Kins Diet"
Brian Duyst, Escondido, California
"Eww-trition"
Claire Williams, Louisville, Kentucky
"The I'd-Rather-Be-Extinct Diet"
George Strong, Plano, Texas
"The South Blech Diet"
Rick Torrence, The Village, Oklahoma
"The Cadaver Cleanse"
Paul Kim, Orono, Maine
"Slow Food"
Skip Flanagan, Roseville, California
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