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Q: Has anyone ever heard of a frog farm?
Where do they come from? I know there use to be people to catxh and sell wierd shit. Probably still are. My wifes granddad was a snake catcher. The dude had no left calf! He would go off and catch snakes and stuff and sell them as soup and wines at a road side shop.
Got rich too. Not rich rich but for someone with no land he managed to buy a few houses and set up his kids, not bad for the 60,s.
Anyways im talking about all those frogs and wierd animals you see in a large supermarket like a walmart or something. Who supplies so many frogs and how? And snakes? Or those poor dogs you see hanging in the window. Im sure some were pets once but the majority cant be. Anyone know?
There are a lot of bizzare farms in here, ants, bugs, etc. People breed them like cows in the U.S. Its uncommon of course but some people do it. Frog legs, snake meat/gall, bird's nest are often considered fancy delicacies in a lot of area in Asia, not only China. Other than delicacies some of them also considered as medicine since people believe it have healing power.
Yeah, I have seen some and they do supply major restaurant chains will bull frogs usually. There are some restaurant chains that serve up amazingly good prawn/bull frog pots with spices and vegetables. You may have been to one of these and they are among my favorite.
I remember the first time I had frog was at a Chinese restaurant back in Canada. I was hooked ever since then... but obviously they know how to make it MUCH better here in China. I find it tastes like chicken only more tender and the favor has more kick to it.
If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it.
mike695ca:
Yeah, ive tried most of the wierd stuff. Frog is ok. Its not the taste that bugs me. Its the ratio of bones and junk to meat. Its just not good enough to steer me away from real meat. The southern US know how to cook wierd shit. All meat no bones. I had gator nuggets. Pretty damn good.
Kahns_fury:
I bet a Chinese person would love some of my families old hillbilly recipes. Squirrel, possum, and muskrat. Sounds right up their alley.
In our community there is quite a lot of man made lakes. In the lakes there are plenty of frogs. At a local market some of these frogs get sold every day, this regardless of the fact that insecticide is poured into the lakes several times per year.
Robk:
Why would they pour that in to the lakes?
Would be selling some pretty starving little frogs at the market....
Scandinavian:
I think it is because it is a higher end community, all is new and polished (although falling apart because it is almost 5 years old) the monthly service fees are high and keeping bugs out seems to be part of what we pay for
The other day a granny on the footpath was selling some sort of STRANGE creatures. Either snakes or extra large-earthworms.
Over a dinner with some local friends, I picked a piece of meat and asked later what was that? I was told you just tried 'Frog'. 
Never heard of frog farms.
frog farm? is that where Pierre and Monique grow wine?
