"mary" > wrote in message
...
> While I was living in Baltimore during the 50's, my father would always
buy
> frog legs. Since living there, I have never seen them. Are they unique to
> that area? Also would frogs be raised domestically for that purpose, or
are
> the frogs gathered in the wild? I remember they did not have much flavor
or
> meat.
>
> Tom
>
>

Tom,

Here in the South, frog legs are very common. Any decent fish market
will sell them, and some grocery stores carry them and many restaurants
serve them, battered and fried and still joined together. I remember as a
youngster going "frog gigging" with the older folks. I have a soup recipe in
a recipe book that my aunt gave me for Frog Soup, though I've never made it
because it calls for the meat from the legs and backs of 12 large frogs and
I don't go frog gigging anymore.

Though we ate the wild ones we hunted back then, I'm fairly sure the
ones I eat now at restaurants are farm raised.

They do taste a great deal like chicken. And if you forget to cut the
tendons, they'll jump out of the skillet when they hit the hot grease. I
swear.

Miss Jean, 9M2W6D