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Are frogs'legs healthy?

 
 
Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 10:13 pm
Hi all,
I like to eat frogs' legs but some articles say they are unhealthy. Is it true?
 
dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 01:59 am
@Loh Jane,
It's definitely true for the frogs.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 03:41 am
http://images.tcj.com/2011/02/froglegsLARGE2.jpg
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 05:47 pm
@Loh Jane,
frog legs are delicious and loaded with all sort of amphibious goodness.

Unluke the English who, at this very time of year, are partaking of freshly killed grouse and woodcock that are cooked and eaten offal and all.

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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 05:59 pm
@Loh Jane,
Loh Jane wrote:

Hi all,
I like to eat frogs' legs but some articles say they are unhealthy. Is it true?

What articles? The New England Journal of Medicine? Or People Magazine? When I see people ask these types of questions I wonder what their sources exactly are. People who ask these vague unsubstantiated questions tend to rely on sources that aren't known for their scientific reputation. According to one source online, the only problem with frogs legs is their cholesterol count.

I guess overall it all depends on how you cook them.
http://i43.tinypic.com/zoc3g0.jpg
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/7739/2
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Rockhead
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 06:00 pm
Rockhead
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 06:07 pm
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 06:48 pm
Doc Hopper: [pointing to a billboard showing a bucket of "Doc Hopper's French Fried Frog Legs"] Isn't that splendid? Just splendid! Just take a look at it.
Kermit: All I can see are millions of frogs with tiny crutches.
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Qasim555
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 12:11 am
@Rockhead,
No doubt frogs legs healty .
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 05:25 am
@Qasim555,
There was a restaurant in Tulsa that served em up in a garlicky butter gravy. The meal was accompanied by fresh butter beans and a salad. Kinda comfort food (except for the frogs)
But hey, e don't get all weepy about fish or chicken do we?
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 05:47 am
@farmerman,
But is the method of frog killing humane, me wonders?

Doubt it.

I also avoid lobster and crab, if I suspect they weren't quickly dispatched.
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 05:53 am
@Lordyaswas,
usually frogs are "gigged" which is a long forklike dingus on a spear. The frogs are killed on the boat and iced. they would also shoot en with 22's.

"HUMANE" can have many views based on the culture.
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 05:56 am
@Lordyaswas,
Quote:
I also avoid lobster and crab, if I suspect they weren't quickly dispatched.


very humane of you. Im afraid Im not as civilized as you. I try not to have too close a relationship with my food
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 05:58 am
@farmerman,
If the restaurant convinced me that they didn't suffer unnecessarily, I'd be more than willing to eat a football team's worth, but why the frig bother when they taste like chicken and hardly contain a gobfull.

Why not just have a chicken leg?

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Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 06:01 am
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:



very humane of you. Im afraid Im not as civilized as you. I try not to have too close a relationship with my food


Cobblers.
If you wanted to eat a chicken or a rabbit, would you even consider strangling it just enough so it took half an hour to kill?

No, course you wouldn't. You'd bop it or chop it as quickly as possible.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 06:11 am
@Lordyaswas,
Lordyaswas wrote:

I also avoid lobster and crab, if I suspect they weren't quickly dispatched.

It's easy to dispatch a lobster and do it humanely. A butcher's knife simply through the lobster noggin and you have an instant dead lobster.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 06:14 am
@Lordyaswas,
Its merely a traditional means of dispatching the beast.
Chickens and rabbits were (And the best still are) bled and drawn and hung for a day or more to create enzymatic reactions (controlled ROT)
Seafoods like crabs , lobsters and shellfish cannot be killed and held for later.They must be killed by the cooking or immediately before cooking. Its hard stabbing a lobster in the brain, AND don't even talk to me about a clam.

Imagine stabbing ten thousand crayfish in the basal cranial area. Itd take one a week to cook up a "bug boil"
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 06:17 am
Screw the fancy knife work, it ain't necessary . . .

A lobster dies in the boiling pot
Oh pity the bluefish, too
But they're quickly gone and they suffer not
The way I cry for you my dear, Mary Anne


farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 08:19 am
@Setanta,
kinda sappy way to compare the loss of a lover v a boiled shore dinner, no?

New Christy Minstrels and The Brothers four, and Kingston Trio were just a tad before me but I inherited all my cousins "HOOTENANNY" records with all those silly verses.

"Michael Roll the Polish Whore", was a song that I could not interpret very well. Why would one yell ALLELUJAH after commiting a mortal sin with an ethnic?

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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 7 Oct, 2013 09:56 am
Poles are ethnic? Who knew? I just thought they were long and straight, and often used in boating.
 

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