TORTOISES' BRAINS
A FRENCH- DELICACY IN GREECE. It is testimony to his culinary courage that -the Frenchman on the Salonika front has recently added to his menu tortoises, which are about as common in Greece as rabbits in England. Tortoises' brains, pickled in vinegar, are a dish of extraordinary delicacy. To procure them it is, of course, necessary to cut off the tortoise's head. This is an. operation of some difficulty, -its the tortoise i* a ehy animal, and at the least sign of unusual treatment withdraws his head inside his shell. To counteract this, experience hna shown that the best method is to tickle the tortoise at the tail until, almost be-, eido himself irih hysteria, he pushes out his head long enough for it to be .struck off by a swift stroke. Some of the French troops have carried their zest for food novelty so far as to try tho taste of grilled snake, while in the neighbourhood of Annamite encampments gtray dogs, usually so common in Greece,, are conspicuously rare.
Three friends, who had been spending the evening at their club, agreed thai the one who did not do as his wife told him when lie got hoine should paj for an oyster supper. Smith, in trying find the matches, trod on the cat. "That's right," said his wife,, waking up, ''kill the poor cat, and have done with it." "Well, thought Smith. "I'll have to do it o;- pay," so he killed the family pot. Brown, in the dark, stumbled against tlte piano. "Why don't you break the piano?" demanded his wife. Brown at once broke the piano. When home he stumbled ou the top stjp of the staircase. "Go on," said his wife, "tumble downstairs and brjak your neck." "Not me," answered Jones, "I'll pay for the supper first."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3185, 8 September 1917, Page 3
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