The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-10-18
AN oMNlvoRoUs COLONEL.
Has Sampled Snakes, Puppies. Horse,
Live Fish. Bear, Etc.

Has Sampled Snakes, Puppies. Horse,
Live Fish, Bear, Etc.
A man who processes to have eaten
more different kinds o. foods in more
different climes than any other man
living today or than any other man
that ever lived in any other time is
Colonel Newman Davis of London.
II was dining once with Japanese
family in Tokyo" says the colonel,
when a queer covered dish was
brought to the table. The servant re-
moved the cover, disclosing live fish
wriggling and Topping inside the dish.
ssThey then proceeded to kill it be-
fore my eyes and offered me portion
to eat. / ate it too. 1t was of 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, a
sort of oyster. and fattened puppy. The
most disagreeable, however. was bit
of cold pigs liver wrapped around
prune. There 'sas no escape for me
from eating this, though | tried to
avoid it, My neighbor at the table
picked up the liver and the prune with
his chopsticks and held lem before my
lips. could do nothi.s but open my
mouth and allow the combination to be
inserted because it is considered sig
nal honor in the Celestial Kingdom to
have fellow guest offer you dainty
morsel in the aforesaid gamer
1.-THE fattened puppy tasted some
thing like a 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 and quite
palatable.
"In Africa the Transyaal-I have
lived on trek cattle, hedgehogs and 9th
er things. They tasted peculiar
81 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
/ have tried bear. The meat of the
animal from which l had a steak was
much like the stringy flesh Of an OK Of
questionable age. | believe the best
bear meat is that from small species
which inhabits Kashmir and which
feeds mostly on wild fruit.
Turkish restaurants We're more ac
ceptable than u person would be led
to believe. One of Their most note
dishes is a joint of lamb boiled to
shreds and the small pieces eaten with
the fingers.
'sHorsefiesh | 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
1t Is sweet and toGgh. Orr men at |
Ladysmith became tired of it,
There Is one wild beast | have not
partaken of, and that is lions flesh. / |
have never heard Of this being eaten
but | should imagine from the nature
of the beast the flesh would be dry
and stringy, coupled .aith rank taste.
The lion is lacking Z fat. / shot sew
eral In India, but their bodies We're
nothing but hard muscle. 1t is the
same with the buck you kill in India
and 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- |
BILE meal there for less than SO or 500 |
For every glass of old brandy there |
you will be asked to pay $3.50. In |
Paris there is some cognac bottled be- !
fore the battle of Waterloo which COM |
mands S. thimbleful" What to Eat |