"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
>I noticed a new item at the nearby Asian food store
> today: frogs! Actually, I should say frog. There
> was only one frog in the cage.
>
> I've only made frog once, and it was merely okay.
> I got violently ill, but there were two other
> novel food items I ate that day (the vietnamese
> chili sauce with the rooster on it and imported
> Chinese pine nuts), so I can't be sure it was
> the frog. I've been avoiding that chili sauce
> for the last 20 years because of that incident.
>
> This market keeps getting more interesting.
> They regularly carry two types of live turtles.
> I'm much more interested in turtle than frog.
> They have a sign on the turtle cage warning you
> not to stick your fingers in the cage because
> they'll bite you.
>
> The clams today were in miserable condition.
> They weren't squirting worth a darn, so I
> gave up on my plan of clams for breakfast
> this morning.

At the risk of being called a killjoy, consider before you buy them that the
state of the terrapin world is quite precarious. They are being pushed to
extinction and the last thing anybody needs to eat is a turtle. Amphibians
are not doing a whole lot better. Most of the frogs you find for food were
taken from the wild where their numbers are plummeting.

Who the hell needs it? It is nothing but vanity to eat them.

Paul