Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-10-26
AN OMNIvoRoUs COLONEL
Has Sampled Snakes, Puppies, Hors.
Live Fish, Bear, Etc.

Has Sampled Snakes, Puppies, Horse
Live Fish, Bear. Etc.
man who processes to have eater
more different kinds OF foods In more
different climes than any other mar
living today or than any other mar
that ever lived In any other time is
Colonel Newman Davis of London.
81 was dining once with a Japanese
family In Tokyo" says the colonel
when queer covered dish was
brought TO the table. The servant re
moved the cover. disclosing a live fish
wriggling and Topping inside the dish.
They then proceeded to Kill It be
fore my eyes and offered me a portion
TO eat ate ii too. 1t was of q pecul
lar taste. but not unpleasant.
Next TO Japan. China offers the
greatest array Of marvellous dishes. ]
have eaten many disagreeable things
in China-merely for the experience, OF
course. Among these were sea slugs. O
sort Of oyster, and fattened puppy. The
most disagreeable, however, was q bill
OF cold pigs liver wrapped around q
prune. There was no escape for me
from eating this, though / tried 10
avoid Ii. My neighbor at the table
picked up the liver and the prune with
his chopsticks and held them before my
lips. l could do nothing but open my
mouth and allow the combination to be
inserted, because Ii Is considered a sig.
nal honor in the Celestial Kingdom to
have n fellow guest offer you a dainty
morsel Ia the aforesaid manner.
"The fattened puppy tasted some.
thing like baked sucking pig. The
puppy is fed on rice and milk for sew
eral months before 1t is killed to be
eaten, and the flesh is tender ana quite
palatabie.
I'm Africa-the Transvaal-I have
lived on trek cattle. hedgehogs and 9TH
er things. They tasted peculiar.
Il have often eaten fried serpent in
Africa. This did not appeal to me,
however. 1t tasted something like an
eel OF an inferior, oily sort.
"Roumania is the only country where
1 have tried. bear. The meat of the
animal from which I had a steak was
much like the stringy flesh of an OK OF
questionable age. 1 believe the best
bear meat Is that from a small species
which inhabits Kashmir and which
feeds mostly on wild fruit.
Turkish restaurants were more AZ
ceptable than person would be led
to believe. One OF their most noted
dishes Is joint OF lamb boiled to
shreds and the small pieces eaten with
the fingers.
"Horsefiesh I have eaten in South
Africa, to return to that country again.
1t was at Ladysmith this was served
because there was nothing else. The
flesh OF the horse is unsatisfactory as
IL Is sweet and tough. Our men at
Ladysmith became tired of IL.
There Is one wild beast I have not
partaken of, and that is lions flesh. I
have never heard of this being eaten.
but I should imagine from the nature
OF the beast the flesh would be dry
and str;ngy, coupled with a rank taste.
The Hon is lacking in fat. / shot sew
eral in Indias but their bodies were
nothing but hard muscle. II Is tho
same with the buck you kill In India
ana Africa. The animals are destitute
OF fat.
Il think Monte Carlo is the most ex-
pensive place In the world to dine.
One cannot get any kind OF respecta
Die meal there for less than SIS or $40.
For every glass Of old brandy there
you VIII be asked to pay $3.50. In
rans there Is some cognac bottled he
Tore the battle of Waterloo which COM
mands 30 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tn Eat