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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    B3 said:
    Snails, frogs, horses, ortolan, andouilette, tete de veau........

    Oh yes, the usual clichés about French cuisine. ;) I never eat any of those. Well, I confess having eaten frogs' legs at my in-laws, years ago.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Veggie plugs are what I need @Papi Jo.   I know one gardener friend here who collects and grows her garden snails for the pot and plenty more who eat oysters and andouillette.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    RTBC - I've just had a rather naughty online spending spree at Debenhams. They had a one day 50% off sale on my favourite brand for tops. Got a bit carried away in the end, but I'm saving so much money being stuck at home, I thought I might as well enjoy it! 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've tried only frog's legs out of that lot and to quote another cliche, they tasted like chicken😊 @""Papi Jo"
    I can remember being on holiday in Ireland as a child. The children there would collect buckets of frogs ( buckets???. I seem to have misremembered that bit!) and sell them to some French bloke.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I've tried (and enjoyed) them all except frog's legs and ortolan ... and I wouldn't eat either of those.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    just googled ortolan. WTF is wrong with folk eating stuff like that?
    Devon.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I thought Ortalan Buntings, as an endangered species, were now protected and you weren’t allowed to hunt them nowadays?

    My second RTBC is that I will shortly be attending a big birthday party of a friend tonight, via t’internet - subject to the signal holding up, might be a fuzzy event in more ways than one. 🥂 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They are @Nollie ... but there's a lot of 'poaching' ... hopefully things are changing

    https://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/news/france-ortolan-bunting-may-soon-be-menu

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    @Dovefromabove that link tells an awful tale.  I do eat meat but I'm careful about what I eat and where it comes from. 
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They eat them with a cloth over their face to hide their shame apparently, my 🍑
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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