Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-15
NO Accounting for Tastes.

The Australasian is rather odd in
the matter of dietetics A New Hol-
lander has been known to dispose OF
more than hundred vaulting rats at
one repast, swallowing them, for the
most part, with some of the hair still
upon them, holding them by the tails
and biting the bodies off with his teeth.
Not to be wasteful he afterward dis
posed of the tails. The same innocent
children of nature affect stale shark,
rancid whale blubber, earthworms, and
such trif1es. Kangaroo is dish an
Australian finds much favor in 1t is
delicious. The natives highly esteem
the silent but wild dingo, neither do
they turn up their noses at rats, but
gluttony is allied to rudeness. The
black fellow, when at meals devours
all he can, only now and then finging
morsel over his shoulder to his wife
and children He is likewise IMPROVE
dent, for he seeks food only when he
Graves it, gorges to the last possible
tension of his dirty, black skin, and
then sleeps for several days and nights
consecutively.
In South America the Ottomacs
largely subsiSt on fat and ferruginous
kind of clay, each man eating daily a
pound or more. The Indians of the
Amazon eat kind of |, I'm, preferring
it to other and decidedly better food.
The Peruvians are also clay eaters,
their mess being mixture of tale and
mica-rather tough food, even for
Peru. Other nations are earth-eaters
the inhabitants of New Guinea,
some of the Bolivians, the negroes of
Jamaica, and the natives of New Gale
Il Il yb~
dwell in Siam, Siberia, and KAN
the only ones who subsist on clay when
other food is obtainable.
An Esquimaux will eat twenty
pounds of meat per diem, 1ubricating
the mass with as much oil as he can
swallow; yet a Tongouse will go twenty
pounds better, for he can get away
with forty pounds of reindeer meat in
the same space of time. Both of them
blush for their feeble powers when they
see three Yakutes demolIsh a whole
reindeer at one sitting and rise APP
pearentiy none the worse for the
feed.
At the Falkland islands a gourmet
can enjoy a new sensation by eating
sea lions tongue. 1t is excellant, but
on alligator and turtle eggs. The best
place however, for everything relating
to turtle is the Isle of Ascension. There
they are bred, fed and from there ex-
ported.
In Siam the dried sinews of
various animals form a dish much
liked. Alligators' eggs are eaten
in many eastern countries, and a
nastier dish it would be hard to i'm
agine Ants enter largely into Orien-
tai bills of fare, and in Ceylon the
busy bee is masticated by the very men
who have profted by the honey it has
made.
Experience can alone reveal the
secret of the Esquimaux's love for a
nice, greasy, yielding tallow candle,
and of the ''lingering sweetness long
drawn out" as he pulls the wick gently
between his teeth, SO as not to lose one
particle of its flavor.
Porpoise meat was once a favored dish
with the old English nobility, at least
so runs the story, which declares the
proper sauce to have been compound
ed of sugar, vinegar, and bread
crumbs.
In Central America the stately cur
aSSOn anu the SODeF guam, DoI1 large
birds, are diligently hunted as table
delicacies, yet the first named piped
must not be eaten by the hunters dog
for it will assuredly poison it.
When the natives of the West Indies
are regarded from dietic standpoint,
baked snakes glide into the menu along
with the palm worms Ga finger long),
fried in their own fat. Yet these
colored gourmands cannot abide a
rabbit stew! Rats are there also con-
sidered nice side dish, with OCCASION
al relishes of gecana eggs and palm
tree snout beetles.