The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-04-13
ADDS FREAK FOODS
War Responsible for Queer
Things on Menu.
Potato Flour Bread and Artificial Pro-
tein Join Soup Cubes and Pudding
PoWder-Frenchmen Are
Fond of Snails.

Washington.-War stringencies have
called forth a number of unusual
foods, among them a. bread made
largely of potato -four, artificial pro-
tein cakes. green bone meal prepare
lions, together with innumerable
foods manufactured in the laboratory
in tabloid form. So soup cubes, pud-
ding powders, meat essences and vege-
table extracts-always more or less
prominent in the kitchen of the Euro
pean housewife-have, according to
reports from the belligerent countries,
received tremendous stimulus
through the war. -
War may create scarcity of the arti-
Giles on a community's accepted menu
and yet, there may be plenty of food
about for those who eat it. For ex-
ample, there may be an abundance of
snails and grasshoppers on hand
while a people, thoughtless of these
delicacies, starve for meat. Showing
somewhat of the range of foodstuffs,
when we consider the world by and
large, a bulletin just given out by the
National Geographic society at Wash
ington enumerates few of the freak
foods in other countries. 1t reads:
There is no accounting for the
freaks Of human appetites. The RQose-
Welt story of how he got the best
work out of the men with sharp-filed
teeth by promising them the choicest
bits of raw hippopotamus and rhi-
noceros steak for speed in skinning
will be recalled by many who read
the articles in the magazines at the
time of his African expedition.
! Capt. Robert H. -artlett, command
er of the Karluk, which carried Stef-
ansson to Arctic waters, says that, on
his return from Herald Island to
northern Siberia, he found raw polar
bear meat tasting better than any
piece de resistance he had ever eaten
in the home country.
1.-THE Frenchman likes his snails
and wonders how anyone who accepts
oysters can refuse them.
In Canton, China, rats sell for so
cents a dozen, and dog steak brings
more per pound than leg of NUT
ton.
THE Chinese mandarin pays $50
a pound for birds nests from which
his soup is concocted.
In parts of the West Indies the
palm worm is stewed in fat.
Certain African tribes are as fond
of caterpillars as an American is of
reed birds on toast.
THE Turks are as disguised with
oysters as we are with the fish the
Corsican relishes.
Eating earth, or geophagy, is a
common thing in many parts of the
world. In some parts of Europe a
butter is made of fine clay, and in
other regions various kinds of earth
are sold in the open market. The
Persians use some variety of soil in
making their sweetmeats.
In Mexico the eggs of certain spe-
cies of flies are used by the Indians
in making food paste, which is re-
garded as a great delicacy.
Some of the Arctic tribes allow
their fish to decompose, when it be-
comes to them the same savory deli
cacy that limburger or harzer cheese
is to us, while, in point of true fra
GRANGE, the palm remains to the fish
THE Arabs, and many other of the
near-eastern peoples, prepare theil
bread in sheets almost as thin as It's
sue paper and find these crisp. taste
less things pleasing.
In Central America where creep
ing things are regarded as clean and
reasonable, the lizard the iguana
forms a choice article of food.
Among the tribes OF southern Rus
STA mares milk, soured into an aerid
strong-tasting beverage, constitutes