Very Strange Dishes.
A ciruii\N sa vant recently invifcd several guests to eat a dub of pythons' eggs which were fried in molted butter, and said to taste like mashed potatoes mixed with rice. TfD late Fiank Bucldand wad zealous in his (m-itronoinic researches. Among the dishes which he "invented" van btewed boa conaUictor, whioh resembled veal, and ho haa given us a story cf a little girl in his house who r.te, without tho least injury, several Bnr.kci' pggs, under the impression that thoy were RUgar-plums. A German Society has tried with satiufaction a diah made Of frogs' spawn ; and the Eev. J. G. Wood, the popular author, avows that there arc few greater delicacies than the common rat, when it ia grain fed and cooked in tbe form of a pie. Experiments have also been made with tho octopus, which n said to be highly savoury when seasoned with garlic, cloves, lime-juice, and olive-oil : with sharks' meat, which furnishes excellent cutlets, when it is young and tender ; and with roast crane, stuffed with chestnuts and piunes. The latter might be palatable, but who among us will ever be converted to an appetite for either corn-fed rats or fried pythons'
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2060, 19 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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201Very Strange Dishes. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2060, 19 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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