when you step on a bug and see that slimy gooey stuff. that's it; so guts.

Well online definitions say scuttle is a shallow basket with a hinged lid or a certain type of hatch on a ship. Beetle scuttle brings up search results pointing back to this game. Beetles often do have armor covers for their wings. If I have to guess, it's the connective tissue from these wing covers where they attach. Or it might be the covers themselves ground up into paste. Or it's just beetle guts and the naming department thought the similar sounding word "scuttle" sounded more alchemy than guts.

What is really odd is Scuttle has little or nothing to do with Bugs or Bug Anatomy.

A scuttle is a scoop for carrying coal, or the amount if coal carried by a scuttle, or the method of deliberately sinking a ship so it can be raised again, or a furtive movement like when sneaking.

So, based on the above, the Scuttle could be the back of the Carapace that is shaped like a bowl.

Or, it is a word they pulled out of their own backside.

Scuttle is Vvardenfell's favorite local dish. This cheese-like, greasy substance made from the flesh of local beetles is remarkably tasty, and has modest magical properties.

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There are similar foods made from pork or beef: you cook the stringy parts until all the collagen dissolves, then you grind it up and leave it to congeal in cold. The name has likely nothing to do with anatomy, more with the process of preparation, or the container it is prepared in.

Wasn't that their third album no?

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Honey comes from a bees behind, milk comes from a cow’s behind, and asfor toothpaste you don’t wanna know whose behind that comes from