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- Taste is mildly sweet and meaty
- Normally fried quickly for best flavor
- America imports 1.25 million pounds of frog legs each year
- Frog-gigging provides fresh-caught frog legs in the American South
- Especially popular in Louisiana
- A national frog leg festival is held every January in Fellsmere, Florida
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While frog legs are widely considered in the U.S. to be a defining dish of French cuisine -- and are often derided along with snails as an item that only the French consider food -- they are in fact a longstanding regional-American dish of great cachet and esteem. Frog legs are also widely eaten in Asia, Southern Europe, and the Mediterranean, and were probably once eaten even in frog-averse regions of the Old World: Their remains have been found in Stone Age archaeological sites.
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Culinary Use
Despite the custom of saying that everything reptilian or amphibian 'tastes like chicken,' frog legs have a distinct mild flavor that leans toward the seafood end of things. At their worst, they can be fishy. Frog legs almost always appear as a separate dish. They are often breaded and fried with salt and pepper as seasonings, otherwise usually cooked with garlic. The meat of the upper hind leg is served while the essentially meatless remainder of the frog is discarded. -
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Frog Legs Questions
What do you feed your tree frog? 2 AnswersSmall crickets will probably be the easiest to find, almost all pet stores sell them. Mealworms will also work if the frog will eat them, if they are good and ... read more
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Frog Leg News and Articles
- Google News: Frog Legs
- BBC: French Urged: Boycott Frog Legs (2000)
- The Beaufort Gazette: Frog legs - The Other White Meat? (2007)
- KCCommunityNews.com: Froggin' Season Under Way (2007)
- BBC NEWS: Bullfrog Linked To Fungus Spread (2006)
- Discover Magazine: Frogs Legs Up (1999)
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@klwatts Frog-legs pie, of course. Actually something much more appetising just not sure I'm ready to announce it to the twitterverse.
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Makin Okra Gumbo today with Shrimp, Green Onion Sausage and Frog Legs! Yum Yum!
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eating frog legs dipped in chocolate ice cream
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Some people eat frog legs. #ChuckNorris eats lizard legs, hence snakes. -j
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@damiankindler interesting fact: Did you know that a type of frog can break its own legs, use the bones as claws to fend off an attacker?
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