jmcquown wrote:
> Jonathan Sachs wrote:
>
>>>While I was living in Baltimore during the 50's, my father would always buy frog legs. Since
>>>living there, I have never seen them. Are they unique to that area? Also would frogs be raised
>>>domestically for that purpose, or are the frogs gathered in the wild? I remember they did not
>>>have much flavor or meat.
>>
>>Frog legs are raised on farms (well, I think they actually raise whole frogs). The farm-raised
>>ones are probably tastier and more tender than most of the ones caught wild.
>>
>>The meat does taste like chicken, but I think it's juicier and sweeter.
>>
>>Your question recalled a cartoon I saw years ago which showed a man about to enter a restaurant.
>>He notices a procession of frogs coming around the building from the rear, where the kitchen must
>>be, all of them legless, and moving on little crutches.
>
>
> Must have been a Gary Larsen/Far Side cartoon... I always get a chuckle just thinking about the
> "Boneless Chicken Ranch"
>
>
If you remember "The Muppet Movie" of 1979, starring the inimitable Kermit, you would not poke fun
at Frogs who would like to ban the consumption of frog legs. Didn't the tears run down your cheeks
when you heard "It Isn't Easy Being Green". What a great actor/singer, in the same league with Mario
Lanza or Ezio Pinza, though it is difficult to make out whether he sing tenor of baritone.
What a chase throughout the film by the evil restaurant owner, whose Specialty Of The House is frog
legs! I will not tell you how it comes out, of course.
The supporting cast consisted of such luminaries as Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, etc., all well
cast and there were also some human actors in cameo roles, not famous, from what I remember, Orson
Wells, Bob Hope, Mel Brooks and such.
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