FROGS AS FOOD
AMERICAN RESTAURANTS Frogs' legs have suddenly become popular as food in the United States. The 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 are making; fortunes for their owners. A fat frog can be sold for 2s 6d. 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 frog farm, tho returns from each pair of fullgrown frogs in a season is about £IOOO. The public in moderately priced restaurants in the United States are willingly paying 5s for a pair of frogs' legs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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122FROGS AS FOOD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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