Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-24
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.

| war SCIluSGuClcS udVe
! called forth q number of unusual
foods, among them bread made
largely of potato -four, artificial pro
tein cakes, green bone meal prepare
tons, 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-
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 a people, thoughtless Of these
delicacies, 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. It 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-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. Bartlett, command
er of the Karluk, which carried Stef'
,ansson to Arctic waters. says that, or
his return from Herald Island tc
northern Siberia, he found raw polar
bear meat tasting better than any
piece de resistance he had ever eaten
IL 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 SC
cents a dozen, and a dog steak brings
more per pound than a leg Of NUT
ION. ..
The Chinese mandarin pays SIC
! pound for birds nests from which
lis soup is concocted.
In parts of the West Indies the
palm worm is stewed in fat.
Certain African tribes are as fond
II 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 9
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
heir fish to decompose, when 1t be
comes to them the same savory deli:
:acy that limburger or harzer cheese
g to us, while, in point of true fra
GRANGE, the palm remains to the fish.
The Arabs, and many other of the
1ear.eastern peoples, prepare thei1
bread in sheets almost as thin as It's
sue paper and find these crisp, taste.
ess things pleasing.
In Central America, where creep
ng things are regarded as clean and
reasonable, the lizard, the iguana
.orms a choice article Of food.
Among the tribes of southern Rus
,ia mares milk, soured into an acrid
,trong-tasting beverage, constitutes
he chief article Of diet, and the West
,rner, who at first finds It nauseating
comes to form strong attachment
'Or this drink.
In Syria, Mesopotamia and in Pal
,stine and South Africa, the locust
often graces the table in a roasted
condition, and those who have eaten it
pronounce its meat full Of the most