A NEW DELICACY
I'rogs legs have .suddenly become popular ns food in the United States, (ho demand for them is so great that the supply. cannot keep pace with it, and the few organised frog farms in the swamps of New Orleans and Louisiana arc making fortunes for their owners. A fat frog can be sold for 2s Cd. One pair of frogs produce at least 10,000 tadpoles every year. Allowing for the small death rate among tadpoles in the protected conditions’ of a trog farm, the returns from each pair of full-grown frogs in a season is about .01,000. The public in moderately-priced restaurants in the United States are willingly paying os for a pair of frogs’ logs.
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Evening Star, Issue 22343, 20 May 1936, Page 15
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119A NEW DELICACY Evening Star, Issue 22343, 20 May 1936, Page 15
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