Julsie
I would not ask for toad's legs ... you might get 'em, and what if they are horrid? If you ask for soemthing you've got to eat it or it's rude!
I only tried a frog's leg once, and such was my palate at the time (young - ate anything) I honestly did think it tasted a bit like chicken, but would never order them myself cos not enough on them. Bad enough beggaring about with a chicken's leg, never mind such a small thing. They do look exactly like athletic human legs tho'.
I have not eaten snails. In this country they always used to be swimming in garlic butter for some reason, and they smelled great. I was waitressing at the time, so could not afford to eat out myself, and these days you don't seem to see them. Hard to find good French food up here for some reason.
You collect your snails, rinse them, and feed them on raw carrots for a couple of days until their poo goes orange / yellow so you know all the toxins are out of their bodies. That's as far as I have got with considering snail farming for food in my garden because my family stopped me right there. I was banned from a single further thought. They do not want to eat snails, it transpires :rotfl:
I have a friend who gets toads in her cellar every year - drives her nuts. I would find it charming.
Children are so funny with the things they put into their mouths!
I once caught a tiny baby frog no bigger than 1 inch across to show my son (2yrs old at the time). I opened my palm and held it out to him and he RECOILED with a look of horror and disgust, then suddenly, quicker than I could move my hand away, he slapped his open palm down on it hard and squashed it. I was mortified. He used to do things like that when he panicked. Once saw him quickly stomp on a worm he had inadvertently uncovered. Funny thing - stomped on it with his foot, then ran in a circle frantically rubbing his hands together. Did look funny.
He gets really embarassed if I mention things like that now becuase he loves wild life.
If it is any consolation, we are living in a complete mess for simialr reasons to yourself. We are waiting for builders to start work at the end of April. Meanwhile I have had no dishwasher for 3 years, not enough work space to stack dirty dishes (3 years of stacking them on the floor), and I die of embarassment if anybody visits during the day when they can see my holed carpets with stains everywhere.
After the building work I have the entire house to redecorate from top to bottom and every single carpet has to be replaced. I wish I could afford to get them to replaster every wall in the house so we could just stick lining paper up and paint over it. I ams upposed to be stripping all the floors at ground floor level, but I am struggling to strip for bed.
Oh, well - slow and steady won the race.
It will all be worth it in the end. Then your husband will want tomove again. Usually happens to me the day after my dishwasher arrives
