Hungry Enough To Eat A Rhinoceros

1896

Palatable Around The World

The rhinoceros, the elephant and the hippopotamus, three most gigantic of creatures, are all edible, and, indeed, greatly esteemed as food, the Boston Traveller says.

The porcupine has a repulsive exterior, but a delicious interior, when properly served.

How strange it seems to eat moss! Yet the Iceland moss, found in the west and north of that country, is excellent for consumptives, and is used in Iceland in times of scarcity.

The Old World species of locusts form articles of food with certain semi-civilized and savage races, by whom they are considered as delicacies, or as part of ordinary diet.

There is a kind of clay eaten by certain people in the Carolinas.

Grasshoppers are eaten by Indians.

To most people in our country snails seem to be a strange food, though they have been used for a long time in France, Italy and Spain. The helix pomatia, or the edible snail, which is the kind that is used, has in recent years been farmed in this country, and sold in the New York markets.

The selection of the tongues of birds as an article of diet seems to us strange, yet the tongues of song birds and of the peacock were great delicacies among the Romans.