Emergency Frog Eating Post

My God! Six days since I posted last. I've just been busy is all. But just to get one on the boards, so to speak, to use a baseball term, I'm winding up the day with a study reported on by the BBC about who eats frogs. Seems the United States is something like second! Booyah! We're number—uh—two! We're number two! The BBC story is a little vague on who's number one but it seems it's France, which surprises nobody. But us? Two? I've accounted for a few frogs myself, several times in frogs-legs form and once in a pretty delicious soup at a French restaurant, but the idea that so many other people were doing it too is a mild surprise. And yet, when I think about it, I've been in hardware stores and good-'ol-boy sporting goods stores where I saw frog gigs, these trident-looking things with barbs that you put on the end of a broomstick. You lurk around ponds at night, and thunk! A bit more protein in your diet. (A .22 will get the job done too.) Yo, Cletus! Hey there, Clem! Been chowin' on some frog lately, like a Frenchman? A frog leg in garlic and butter is actually pretty good stuff, although I suspect C. and C. were frying theirs. The meat is mild in flavor, delicate in texture.

A photo caption in the BBC story said, "Frogs are liquidised to make a 'health drink' in parts of South America." I suppose the people who drink the drink believe it significantly boosts your virility or longevity or both. I'm going to wait until the study is published and I can get more information before I make up my own mind, and certainly before I drink any "liquidised" frogs. That seems a little drastic to me, frankly.