Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-05-05
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 SnaiIs.

Washington. stringencies have
called forth a number OF unusual
foods. among them q 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 q tremendous stimulus
through the war.
War may create scarcity of the arti-
cles on 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 q people, thoughtless of these
deiicacies. starve for meat. Showing
somewhat Of the range of foodstuffs.
when we consider the world by and
large, 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 Roose-
welt story of how he got the best
work out OF the men with sharp-flled
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 II. : 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.
THE Frenchman likes his snails
ana 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 10 concocted.
In parts OF the West Indies the
palm worm Is stewed In fat
Certain African tribes are as fonc
OF caterpillars as an American is o.
reed birds on toast
The Turks are as Disguised with
oysters as we are with the fish tn,
Corsican relishes.
Eating earth, or geophagy, is {
common thing in many parts of the
world. In some parts of Europe
butter is made of fine clay, and IL
other regions various kinds OF eartl
are sold in the open market. Tn,
Persians use some variety of soil II
making their sweetmeats.
In Mexico the eggs Of certain spe
cies OF dies are used by the Indians
in making food paste. which is re
garded as great dellcacy.
Some OF the Arctic tribes ALLOW
their fish TO decompose, when II be
comes to them the same savory dell
caoy that limburger or, harzer chees
is TO us, while. in point OF true fra
GRANGE, the palm remains to the fish
THE Arabs. and many other OF tn
near'eastern peoples, prepare thei
bread in sheets almost as thin as tis
sue paper and find these crisp, taste
less things pleasing.
In Central America, where Greer
ing things are regarded as clean an
reasonable, the lizard, the iguanl
forms a choice article OF food.
Among the tribes of southern Rui
sia mares milk. soured into an acrit
strong-tasting beverage, constitute