did you know that . . .?
Jan. 22nd, 2009 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogAs many as one billion frogs are being harvested from the wild for human consumption each year, according to a new study.
I've been advised that the edible frog is about 6in (15cm) long, so, if every one of those cute wickle fwoggies was holding onto the wickle footsies of the cute wickle fwoggy in fwont of it, the fwog chain so formed would reach nearly halfway to the moon. A decade's worth and we could use them to signal our presence to extraterrestrial civilizations.
Elsewhere in the article we discover that "Frogs are liquidised to make a 'health drink' in parts of South America". Myself I think this sounds a bit bland (frogs' legs taste like chicken, and I imagine a chicken-juice health drink would be no rousing mocha, like), but friend Todd Lockwood observed:
Yummm ... mm ... >blaaarghle<
Over to you, South American LJers, to inform me!
Meanwhile, I've been finishing the draft of the chunk for Bogus Science about modern geocentrism. Do you realize that we heliocentrists are agents of Satan? Did you know that not one single aspect of the post-Galilean balderdash has ever been proven? It all makes yer want to gulp, dunnit?
Just gulp, I mean. Not gulp some refreshing frog juice.
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Date: 2009-01-23 02:18 am (UTC)Heliocentrists are agents of Satan? Wow. Who knew. All this time I thought Satan's agents were Bush and Cheney.
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Date: 2009-01-23 02:22 am (UTC)When frog get eaten by Thog frog know it been eaten.
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Date: 2009-01-23 02:32 am (UTC)I knew it!
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Date: 2009-01-23 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 05:56 pm (UTC)Sounds good to me!
"on account of the volcano still being intermittently active, I gather"
Hence Montserrat's reputation as the home of lavatory humour, no doubt.
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Date: 2009-01-23 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 05:59 pm (UTC)Alas.
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Date: 2009-01-23 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 02:36 am (UTC)That's what you say whenever I find frogs' legs on the menu in UK restaurants.
One of these days I'll cook you up a nice frogs' legs and beef-kidney pie and you'll see, it'll be delicious!
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Date: 2009-01-23 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 05:52 am (UTC)Why Vietnamese? I've had frogs' legs as a pub lunch in Britain.
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Date: 2009-01-23 09:37 am (UTC)In the US, frog-as-meat is generally considered either disgustingly French or disgustingly southern white trash. Lots of people down here (I live in Florida these days) eat frog, but that's about on the same level as eating squirrel, something poor throwbacks do. I'm not defending that, it's just the general attitude I've run into. Even that level of frog eating tolerance drops dramatically the further north and west you go.
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Date: 2009-01-23 02:45 pm (UTC)You are very, very lucky to have a Vietnamese joint nearby.
Yep, I've noticed this odd foodstuff snobbery in the US -- not just in terms of the particular animal but also the particular cut. For example, I love things like kidneys (though I have to be careful because of their high cholesterol, of course), but I don't think I've ever seen them on sale here.
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Date: 2009-01-23 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 05:57 pm (UTC)"I think the wife and ma-in-law would throw me out were I to attempt to cook them"
Same situation here -- see pds_lit's reaction elsewhere on this page.
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Date: 2009-01-23 09:55 pm (UTC)I'm extremely partial to a pork chop with the kidney left in, but you can't get them over here any more, for reasons which escape me.
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Date: 2009-01-23 10:04 pm (UTC)"I'm extremely partial to a pork chop with the kidney left in"
Ditto. It must have been since I left that they vanished from the shops. You can't get them here, either, which is a bummer.
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Date: 2009-01-23 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 10:19 pm (UTC)"They vanished from the supermarkets ages ago, long before you left"
Not from the Exeter supermarkets, they didn't.
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Date: 2009-01-23 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 05:49 am (UTC)"Modern geocentrism?? Arrgh!"
Alive and well. A recentish survey showed about 20% of the US adult public think the sun goes round the earth.
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Date: 2009-01-23 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 05:58 pm (UTC)That was exactly the joke in this household: "This largely explains that stubborn residual figure of 27% for Bush supporters."
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Date: 2009-01-23 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 02:47 pm (UTC)I imagine that's the recipe for frog tartare, yes.