CURIOUS TASTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8134, 14 June 1906, Page 4

CURIOUS TASTES.

Some remarkable facts are given in " Science Sittings" as to the food eaten by the people of various nations. |lt is stated that in Mexico the honeyant is eagerly sought after by the natives. In South America the large lizard, the iguana, is a delicacy, not to speak of the larger snakes, which in taste are like chicken. The ordinary rattlesnake, it is said, is very good eating, if one can overcome the inborn prejudice. We are inclined to regard the Chinese as a race of rat> eaters, and denounce the animal as anclean, at the same time consuming tons yearly of the most loathsome of all animals -the pig. Tho common skunk, owing to its peculiar and often--ive gl'.tidi, will never be popular as luu.i, jci iu desh is not only good, but delicious, according to various connoisseurs who have eaten it That in-

sects do not enter more into the food supplies of nations is due to prejudice, Grasshoppers are eaten by some tribes. Ground up, they make a meal that is said to be both nourishing and agreeable. Many a white man has pressed through- a country, believing himself nearly starving, as large game was not to lie kjd, when worms and various insect* were at hand.