Frog legs: Yummy 😋 or Yucky 🤢?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

😋

[True Dough]

1. DON'T DO IT!!!

Who will think of the Kermits?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Its not easy being green! 🐸 ribbit!

[Lochloosa]

2. Yummy. And no, they don't taste like chicken.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. 🐸ribbit!

[Siwsan]

3. Just seems too weird to even try, but I had an Aunt who loved them

Even thinking about eating them triggers my gag reflex!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. 🐸ribbit! 🤢

[Thyla]

4. I would try them.

The ones in the pic look good and if I ever get a chance I will give it a go.

[lastlib]

12. They're de-LISH! Try 'em!

I spent many a summer night gigging frogs and feasting on them. Actually, the entire frog (except the guts, of course) is edible. Yeah, a little bit like chicken, but not exactly.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. 🐸ribbit! 😋

[janterry]

5. I remember as a teenager, walking through Chinatown

and seeing all of the frogs on a table, with a bow around their legs.

They were jumping, but couldn't go anywhere.

That said, hard pass.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. 😢

[trixie2]

6. When I was a kid, so long ago, my aunt would let us loose on the farm

and have us get a bunch of bull frogs. My brother and I thought we were taking home pets but no they were fried up for dinner. There is just something wrong about that. In my 6 year old mind anyways.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. 😢

[Xipe Totec]

7. They're great. A little wasteful though

In Beijing they serve the entire frog in soup.

I've had frog's legs and I've had frog soup. Both are great for the adventurous gourmand.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

26. 🐸😋

[Javaman]

8. tastes like chicken. nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

27. Nope!

Chicken tastes like frog! 😏

[dem4decades]

9. I'm sure they tasted better than the crow Mitt ate later.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

30. 😂

[benld74]

10. Had my first back in the late '70's, great

Not too many since, but given chance I would take them no problem

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. 🐸😋

[Marcuse]

11. Emergency Rations

After the loss of the food pack during a two week canoe trip down the Magnetawan River. First and last time.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Ribbit! 🐸

[Still Blue in PDX]

13. I used to shoot frogs with my BB gun so my mom could fry up the legs.

The memory of that creeps me out now, as for about the last decade I've been pretty much toward the vegan end of vegetarian.

And here we have an example of how people can change over the course of half a century.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. ✌🏻🐸

[The Polack MSgt]

14. Like a lot of foods, it depends...

On who makes 'em.

GOOD frog legs are great, mediocre frog legs are awful.

They are a food that doesn't have much of a middle ground.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Ribbit! 🐸

[LeftInTX]

15. Meh....

I'll eat them, but haven't had them in years.

They used to sell fried alligator nuggets at a local Cajun place. I never tried it. They've stopped selling the alligator nuggets.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. Alligator nuggets are yummers! 🐊

[zanana1]

16. Delicious!

I love the cartoon.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. 🐸😋👍🏻

[ailsagirl]

21. Love frogs and wouldn't do it if it were the last "edible" thing on earth

UGH!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. 🐸✌🏻

[OriginalGeek]

22. There used to be a Cajun place in Irving, TX

Broussard's on Beltline - they had the best frog legs and crawdads. Just order them by the tray and pile up clean bones and empty shells.

But I've had them a few times since moving back to FL and it's been hit or miss. Sometimes the frog legs taste muddy. I don't know if it's the source or the prep or that Broussard's just set the bar too high for mortal restaurateurs to reach. If I see them on a menu I'll give the place one shot at it. If they're alright, I'll probably get them again but if not, then they need alternate food or we go someplace else. Had them on a cruise ship and didn't like them because they weren't fried. I did like their escargot though so I'll keep cruising.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

41. 🐸😋🐌

[joem777]

23. I eat them, sustainable resourse that isn't pumped with chemicals like chicken

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. 🐸😋

[Binkie The Clown]

28. Never tried them. Then I went vegan and never will. Won't try butterfly wings either. nt

[nykym]

29. My first taste of frogs legs

was back in my Boy Scout days.
On a provisional camping trip to Camp Siwanoy in Wingdale NY.
(Little did I know that later in life I would call Wingdale my home).
Anyway, we caught the frogs skinned them and fried the legs in butter
over a campfire and ate them. They were delirious.
I still order them if they are on the menu in the area restaurants.

[thbobby]

32. They are delicious

Not gamy tasting at all. Not like chicken exactly.

As a kid, I used to go with my dad to hunt them. I carried a canvas bag. We (a group of three or more people) would circle ponds at night. Did not use a gig, a baseball bat is much better. With a gig, you must hit frog and bleeding damages meat and is messy. With a bat, anywhere close to frog will, at a minimum send it into shock and make it easy to pick up. Carrying bag was easy to start, but a canvas bag filled with frogs is heavy. When being cooked (fried) they do twitch, but damn they were delicious. Frogs have become very scarce in North Texas - probably due to pesticides and herbicides. After rains at night, we could easily hear them all around our country house.

[Generic Brad]

37. They are quite tasty

I had them multiple times when I was young. I haven't seen them on a menu anywhere since I have been an adult.

[unblock]

40. i'll stick to crickets and snails, thank you very much.

actually, i've had frog's legs. i found them unobjectionable but didn't understand the fuss, from a culinary point of view. i mean, a delicacy? tasted pretty ordinary to me.

[dewsgirl]

43. There is an annual Frogleg festival in Fellsmere, Fl

Each year. It's in my county, I personally think they are yucky, the festival is fun though.

[OriginalGeek]

45. I keep meaning to go to that

it's only a couple hours away...looking it up now to see if I can plan something


dammit! it was in January. I reckon I can get my [self] together in a year lol...

[dewsgirl]

46. 🤗

[democratisphere]

44. l like my frogs intact, breathing and sitting on a lily pad in the pond.

[DashOneBravo]

47. Love them

I grew up with a farm pond close to the house. We’d take gigs and get the frogs while one guy watched out for Cotten mouth snakes.

I think we used corn meal for them in a cast iron skillet.