Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-27
STRANGE DISHES.
Some illustrations of the EcceRtrtct
 ties of the Human Palate.

ties of the Human Palate.
 They say "tastes differ" Certainly the eceentricities of the human palate are many. A young lady of the Sandwich Islands makes nothing at breakfast of boiling half dozen mackeral-raw. The Chippewa Indians bury fshes' eyes in the earth till they be- come putried, and then eat them either cooked or raw. The flesh of 8 mad dog is reportsd to have been eaten by gravedigger at aeostads, in Bohemia. There is nothing very uncommon in the eating of dog flesh, the taste of which is said to be excellent; the strange thing in this instance was that no evil effects followed to the consumer. Bats are found to constitute palatable food in Australia, Ceylon, etc. Buzzards used to be generally eaten in France. Lizards eyes are rightly esteemed great delicacY by the
 Malays and Chinese, and the eggs of the boa
 constructor are eaten by the Africans from
 the Congo. Lizards themselves form arti-
 cles of diet in New Zealand, Ceylon, South
 America, the West Indies, etc.; their meat
 has been thought, even by Europeans, to e1- eel chicken. The flesh of the boa eonstric-
 tor is said to taste like veal being exceeding ly white and firm. Italians are fond of
 jelly made of stewed vipers. Snake wiRes are sold in the apothecary stores of China; they have a strip ot the skin of the reptile fastened to the top of the vessel in which
 they are contained to vouch for their genu-
 ineness. The Indians of western Nevada impale snakes of various kinds upon stick,
 hold them wriggling over a fire to broil and then eat them. Great black snakes are fried and eaten in Calabria and Sicily by the peas antry, who will not, however, eat tame goose. The anaoonda supplies the tables of the poor in Brazil. Not few fastidious Ed- ropean palates have learned to relish the rat- tlesnake with the untutored savage of the vest The shark, which is we'll known to be a somewhat liberal feeder, is in turn fed upon in China and Japan. In Brazil Humboldt saw centipedes-some of them one and one- half feet long and half an inch broad dragged out of their holes and crunched alive
 by the children. Leeches are found upon the tables of the very princes in Japan.
 New Caladonians esteem spiders highly as an article of food; the inhabitants of New South Wales, moths. Ants possess an acid
 taste much like that of lemons, and are largely eaten in Brazil, the East Indies, Java, Africa etc. Caterpiliars are eaten by some natives of Africa, and in the West Indies are thought, when fried, to constitute one of the greatest delicacies in America. When the people of sections of some of our States Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, eto.-are
 brought to starvation by the loeusts devour-
 ing all green things, they should turn to and devour the locusts; they are pronounced by
 high authority to be a decided dellcacy. The
 bon vivant, who, almost in ecstacies over his wood-snips, carefully places upon his toast the black mass which he takes from the birds inside, and eats it with something akin to veneration, little knows he is eating the worms that live in the snipe's intestines.
 Worms have long been ranked high with the gourmets of the West Indies, China, Java,
 Madagascar, etc. Common earth worms have recently been given trial at banquet in France. Rolled in batter, they were
 baked in an oven until they acquired de- lightful golden tint, and gave out most ap- petizing em ell. After the first plateful fifty guests rose as one man and asked for more.