Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-02

loathsome Surinam toad. Monkeys are
also considered good eating in some
countries. African epicures are never
off highly seasoned, tender young mon.
key, baked gypsy fashion in the earth.
The great red monkey, the black spider
monkey and the bowling monkey are all
eaten by the various peoples among
whom they are found. The flesh of the
monkey is said to be both nutr .tious
and pleasant.
One species of bat is considered good
eating by the natives of the islands of
the Indian Archipelago, Malabar, etc.
1t is called by naturalists the edible bat,
and is said to be white, tender aud deli
cate; but, for all that, it is hidsous
beast, like q weasel, with ten-inch
bo Y, covered with close and shining
black hair, and with four-feet wings
when stretched to their full extent.
In some countries even the fox is con-
sidered a dellcacy. In the Arctic re-
gions, where meat is scarce, when judi
ciously made into pie, it is considered
equal to any rabbit, under the same con.
ditions, ever bred on the Sussex downs.
But, strange to say, the Esquimau dogs,
which will devour almost anything else,
will not touch fox. Cats and dogs read.
lily find purchasers and consumers in
China, where they are hung up in the
butchers shops, together with badgers
tasting like wild boar-and other oddi-
ties of food.
In the South Seas, too, a dog is
favorite dish, and puppy stew is roy
al feast in Zanzibar; but it is only fair
to say that where dog is eaten it is
especially fattened for the table and fed
only on milk and such like cleanly diet.
The Australian dog, or dipgo, is eaten
by the blacks, but by no one else; and q
South African will give COW for a
good-sized mastiff. The American pan
ther and the wildcat of Louisiana are
said to be excellent eating; so is the pu-
ma, which is SO like veal in flavor that
one hardly knows the difference. Lions
flesh. too, is almost identical with veal
in color, taste and texture. Bears paws
were long a German delicacy, and the
flesh is held equal or superior to pork,
the fat being as white as snow. The
tongue and hams are cured, but the
head is accounted worthless and thrown
away. The badger tastes like wild boar.
The Australian kangaroo is not much in
ferior to venison, and kangaroo.tail soup
is better than half the messes which pass
in London under the name of ox.tail
soup. Hashed wallaby is a dish no one
need disdain, and there is small species
of kangaroo as good as any hare ever
cooked. An Australian native banquet
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laby, opossums and flying squirrels, kan.
garoo rats, wombats and bandicoots
represent the pieces de resistance, while
rats, mice, snakes, snails, large white
maggots, worms and grubs form the
little dishes and most favored entrees.
A nice fat marmot is treat--why not !?
They are quite pure feeders.
The muskrat OF Martinique is eaten.
though indescribably loathsome to Eu-
ropeans; but the sleek rats of the sugar.
cane plantations make one OF the most
delicate frieassees imaginable, SO tender,
plump, cleanly and luscious are they.
The Chinese are in rat paradise in Cal
| ifornia, where the rats are enormously
large, highly favored and very abund-
ant, rat soup being considered by all
right.minded Celestials to beat OK tail or
gravy soup hollow. The indians eat the
beaver, which is said to be like pork,
and porcupine is fine dish with the
Dutch and Hottentots Of the Cape, and
with the Hudson Bay trappers, and, in
deed, with the Inhabitants Of all the
countries where the creature is found,
the flesh being good and delicate, and,
moreover, accounted exceedingly nutri-
tions.
EIephAnts feet. picked in strong
toddy vinegar and cayenne pepper, are