In article >, jmcquown
> wrote:

>
> <shrug> I enjoy it, too. But I never thought of quail legs as a gem.
> A lot of guys I worked with in west TN went quail hunting. I can't see
> going to all that trouble for a bird that small.

I've eaten my share of quail and doves. Wild quail legs are usually
left in the field in Nevada. Breasts are kept. What you read may have
been a misprint. They might have meant quail eggs which are fairly
common and equally useless to other than a starving man.
But quail eggs are culinarily cool and expensive. Quail legs shouldn't
be. I figure it would take a hundred of them to feed a person poorly.
2 cents.

leo