Frogs are eaten in Africa and Asia. French are the European odd balls.
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Yeah I was gonna say, OP might be surprised just how much they're actually in the minority globally speaking.
I wouldn't say it's the most popular food in the world, but more people live in countries where it's commonly eaten than in countries who don't.
I remember seeing a documentary and they showed the Goliath Frog, which was considered a delicacy to a tribe. That thing was huge.
Normally frog seems like a lot of work for very little meat, but those are some big bastards. Can hardly blame someone for having that on their menu.
French are the European odd balls
If you don't count Italy, Portugal, Spain, Albania, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, or Ukraine.
I am very much portuguese and in all my years of life, I never had nor new another portuguese that hate frog legs.
Snails, on the other hand...
Go somewhere near a large river, away from the ocean.
Source: Italian, from near a big river away from the sea. Never ate frogs but they do serve them here. Fried.
I live and my family is from inland territory and never have I ever heard of anyone eating frogs in Portugal, unless they had previously lived in France.
We eat a lot of weird things but frogs is not one.
According to Wikipedia they eat them in the Alentejo region
Frog legs are popular in the southeastern US as well.
You mean in the Frenchest part of America?
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West Indies too. Like in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
What's that? Their National Heroalso has a French name and worked with French revolutionaries? I don't see how that relates to the conversation...
This is extra funny, because - I dunno if y'all know this, but - frogs really do use their legs quite a bit.
To have eaten frog legs twice in my life: it tastes like chicken.
Same, I ate frog legs fairly recently for the second time in my life. It was baked in garlic butter, so it tasted more of garlic than anything else.
I was greatly disappointed by this. Oily chicken with little meat to them. You could sous vid chicken in canola oil to get the same effect for cheaper and arguably more ethical. Snake was the biggest disappointment though it tasted like dusty chicken. Like the kind of dust in an old person's home that thick twenty years undisturbed dust and tiny rib bones everywhere
"That dust is from 2004!"
in my native language cooked frog legs are called "pond chicken"
I’ve had people tell me “they taste like chicken wings!” And im like “I’ll stick with chicken then”
They do taste like dark meat chicken, but it's been soaking in a lake overnight.
Why only the legs? Frogs are delicious. (Honestly I don’t know the type/species that I’ve eaten.)
Where I live in the USA, I mostly only see them for sale at Chinese restaurants and in the Asian supermarkets. Every once in a great while, but not often, they'll show up on the menu of a seafood restaurant but I think they're a seasonal thing in that case.