PENGUIN EGGS
DELICACY IN LONDON.
Penguin eggs were the rage among epicures in the West End restaurants reoently. A consignment reached London, and during the day nearly 2000 of them were sold to hotels, restaurants and big stores.
One gourmet, tasting them for the first time, said: . “They resemble plovers’ eggs. There is no ‘fishy’ taste, as I- might have expected.” Some Englishmen hesitated to taste them till their neighbour in the restaurant had revealed that they were quite palatable—and in fact good eating.
In one big store the eggs were sold at 8s and 9s a dozen, and the supply was soon exhausted.
South African guests at hotels, who are familiar with penguins’ eggs—the present consignment came from Penguin Island, off the Gape—enthusiastically declared that “they contain more vitamins af’d rejuvenating properties than monkey gland.” Home produced penguin eggs are few, but ocea-ionally the Zoo and the Scottish Zoo manage to rear a brood from them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1932, Page 2
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