jerrybob
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New pub food.......toad and a Beamish!!!
Evidence suggests early Britons ate roasted toads - FOX Carolina 21
Evidence suggests early Britons ate roasted toads - FOX Carolina 21
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Larro Darro
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Sure, they might have ate toads. Or some kid said, "I wonder what would happen if we threw this toad in the fire." One burnt leg bone isn't a lot to go on. It is neat they have such a good site so near Stonehenge.
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2LaneCruzer
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There you go. You cook one little toad and you are a frog eating society for all time.
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jerrybob
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Good thing they didn't discover a horse ********........people would really be talkin!!
Mace Canute
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It's really not all that surprising; I would expect people of that era to be much less picky regarding their diet than we are today. There's nothing saying it was a staple, just that someone roasted it and ate it and depending on their circumstances they might eat anything that was edible. In tough times we eat each other...
farmgirl19
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Or they could have been some sort of "burnt offerings". You know, "eye of newt, and leg of toad". No teeth marks mentioned, just a charred goods, and near Stonehenge, makes anything possible.
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Any "medicinal" values to the toads?
MikeInEburg
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Or maybe it went something like this:
Hunter 1: "We've been hunting all day and haven't even come CLOSE to catching a rabbit, fox or squirrel"
Hunter 2: "I know. And I'm starving. What CAN we catch?"
The rest., as they say, was history. Just hope they had already invented tabasco sauce.
Hunter 1: "We've been hunting all day and haven't even come CLOSE to catching a rabbit, fox or squirrel"
Hunter 2: "I know. And I'm starving. What CAN we catch?"
The rest., as they say, was history. Just hope they had already invented tabasco sauce.
farmgirl19
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EVERYTHING goes well with Tabasco Sauce!
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Good question, when I was working in China, according to the local guardian we had while travelling around, everything over there either made you healthy, or horny.
2LaneCruzer
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Tell me about the healthy stuff...
2LaneCruzer
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Toads are known for having poison secreting glands in their skin; some are extremely poisonous...in fact, I believe that some primitive cultures used these secretions to coat their arrow tips and blow-gun darts. Having said that, hunter/gatherers have the knowledge and skills to prepare and eat a lot of things that would kill some ignorant city slicker dude; so I'm sure if they wanted a toad sandwich, they probably could have prepared it in jig time, cooked it up and downed it with a bit of dill weed and watercress. I haven't yet figured out what the big surprise is here; I'm betting they ate a lot of things that would make you go "Holy chit!". Frog legs, on the other hand, especially a big old green bullfrog out of a nice clean pond, are some goooooood eating!
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jerrybob
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It's my understanding they can help you bring up a really good and loud belch! Or would that be croak?
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There is a dish in England called "Toad in the Hole" which consists of Yorkshire Pudding baked around bangers (or sausages as we know them). Maybe this was the inspiration.
Toad in the hole
Toad in the hole
Larro Darro
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I'm sure there are some very good write-ups in the peer reviewed journals about the dig. But someone wanted to get their name in the popular press. So the toad leg offered him that chance. I guess it worked. We are talking about it.
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dmccarty
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Cane or Bufo Toads have a poison in their skin. These things were released in South FLA to get rid of pests attacking sugar cane. Many dogs and cats get sick and/or die in S. FLA from attacking Cane toads because of this poison. I have heard of people L I C K I N G the cane toads or smoking the dried up skins in order to get stoned. Maybe the English were "smoking" the toads? :confused3::shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
Yo, DUDE!, pass me that toad!
Later,
Dan
Yo, DUDE!, pass me that toad!
Later,
Dan
2LaneCruzer
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Cane or Bufo Toads have a poison in their skin. These things were released in South FLA to get rid of pests attacking sugar cane. Many dogs and cats get sick and/or die in S. FLA from attacking Cane toads because of this poison. I have heard of people L I C K I N G the cane toads or smoking the dried up skins in order to get stoned. Maybe the English were "smoking" the toads? :confused3::shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
Yo, DUDE!, pass me that toad!
Later,
Dan
Hah. Sounds like something out of Monty Python. I remember when he introduced a new line of chocolates called "crunchy frog". I think that the toads may be edible if they are skinned, though.
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jerrybob
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Cane or Bufo Toads have a poison in their skin. These things were released in South FLA to get rid of pests attacking sugar cane. Many dogs and cats get sick and/or die in S. FLA from attacking Cane toads because of this poison. I have heard of people L I C K I N G the cane toads or smoking the dried up skins in order to get stoned. Maybe the English were "smoking" the toads? :confused3::shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
Yo, DUDE!, pass me that toad!
Later,
Dan
Don't bogart that Toad....my friend!
dmccarty
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Cane or Bufo Toads have a poison in their skin. These things were released in South FLA to get rid of pests attacking sugar cane. Many dogs and cats get sick and/or die in S. FLA from attacking Cane toads because of this poison. I have heard of people L I C K I N G the cane toads or smoking the dried up skins in order to get stoned. Maybe the English were "smoking" the toads? :confused3::shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
Yo, DUDE!, pass me that toad!
Later,
Dan
This is one of those things that make you ask, "Who was the first one to lick the toad?", "Who was the first one to smoke the toad?" and "WHY, did they have this idea?" :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:
The morning radio show I listen too records their shows and the funniest calls are repeated when the hosts are on vacation. One of the calls is played at least once during their vacations because it is so danged funny. A guy called up who was obviously stoned out of his gourd. He and his friends would wait for a rain and in the middle of the night they would go to a local pasture that had cattle. They would flip over bovine scat to find freshly growing mushrooms, take said shrooms and make tea which got them stoned. :drool:
:shocked:WHO was the first dude to flip a cow patty, see a mushroom and say, "Hey! I bet that would get me high!", and then try it! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
Danged lucky they did not die...
Later,
Dan
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