The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-06
ODD FOODSTuFFS.
ANIMALS WERE ONCE TORTURED
TO MAKE FLESH TENDER
Baked Elephants Foot Said to Be De-
ileious-A Salad Made of Tree
6ark-Rattlesnakes Said
TO Taste Like Chicken.

TO Taste Like Chicken.
In our own country. while there are
no cities given to making specially
OF cookery and epicurean dishes like
lark tongues and other great dishes
of the Lucullian feasts in old Rome,
yet there are two cities noted for a
great variety of special dishes or food
that can be obtained readily in any
other section of the Union.
Germany is eating horse. A ten
course dinner of Algerian lion was
served by a Partisan Tar,arian. who
basely bought instead of shooting the
game. Monkey is said to be excellent
with a far away flavor or rabbit, but
many diameteres more savOry. Still.
monkey eating is cannibalism. if our
ancestors really were arboreal in their
habits.
An English traveller and game blg-
ger in Africa swore than baked ele-
phant foot was a dainty dish to set
before king. Dr. Livingstone, in
speaking of breakfast of elephants
foot cooked for him in native fashion
and which he very much enjoyed
said: 1T was a royal feast and
found ii delicious"
The natives of nearly all parts of
Africa are exceedingly fond of white
ants as a dish.
When the white ants cast off their
colony of winged emigrants, canopy
is erected like an umbrella over the
ant hill. AS soon as ants fly against
the roof they tumble down in show
er, and their wings instantly become
detached from their bodies. They are
then helpless, and are swept UP in
baskets to be fried, when they make
very palatable food.
Another Englishman-why is it al
ways an Englishman to whom these
original and courageous tastes are at
tributed?-an Englishman averred
that boa constructor, properly cooked,
was better than the best veal. being
nearly all breast. And. yet the boa
constructor has no mercy Cn the calf.
This recalls some curious and cruel
customs of our English forefathers,
who killed animals by slow and te ri
flying. processes, in order that their
flesh should be made tender by mus
cular agony and mental distress. 1t
is probable that the struggles of a
creature slowly killed by a torSura
soften it's muscles. The flesh of a
hunted hare is more tender than the
flesh of a hare shot ulawares.
Bulls were baited with dogs, not so
much for the barbarous pleasure of
Witnessing brutal conflicts as for the
inteneratiOn of the beef which would
have been less eatable had the ami
mails been killed quickly with. knife
and bludgeon. While bull batting was
still sanctioned in England as a whole
some culinary process, our ancestors
lntenerated pigs by whipping them 10
death, a treatment that produced the
requisite bodily cOnvulsions. and men
tai distress in the dying animals.
Hence it was usual with the old Eng
, iish to fly hawk at barndoor poultry
and "crammed birds"
While the French menagere will
rave over a dozen snails served in the
shell. the dainty japanese will quietly
chic, and the practical German haus-
frau surprises her husband with the
juciest roast pork and picked pigs
feet on the side
Goulash with plenty of paprika is
the Hungarian's delight, VIII lie the
dark eyed daughters of Italy will not
be happy unless they can offer their
families genuine feast, including
salami sausages, olives and extra well
cheesed spaghetti or risetto. A fra
grant after dinner cigarette accompan-
led by very small glass of vodka is
the usual indulgence of the Russian
woman after Thanksgiving dinner.
A French woman in New York finds
the greatest pleasure in cooking he.
husband rabbit that has been ex-
posed to the air until it takes on
certain gamy Odor. To this delicacy
she adds some cocks. combs fried IN
sweet butter. On Christmas Day she
will serve monsieur some real tripe or
a dozen big vineyard snails. New Orr
leans imports snails from France in
barrels, protected by wire netting to
prevent this succulent article of diet
from creeping out.
Shark fin Is popular dish with the
Chinese and few old selmen. Coy
chee Sharks fin, fried or in soup)
and birds nest soup are common items
on a Chinese menu card.
A dish made of the stomach of
reindeer, or seal, and mixed with seal
oil, is the Equimau substitute for ice
cream.
The flesh of the rattler is also per-
fectly wholesome and tcothsome, hay-
ing favor, like The flesh Of most
snakes, like chicken.