What About the Rest of the Frog

Lister: "Why?"

Holly: "Cos no other bugger would drink it! Plus of course,the added advantage of dogs milk, is that when it goes off, it tastes just the same as when it’s fresh."

Actually, don't some cultures milk pigs? I think the answer is that we do eat anything if we're desperate enough. In some places the native population didn't have access to decent-sized livestock so were forced to eat things like frogs and insects occasionlly for protein.

Question is, why DO we eat certain things? Happy accident? Did someone come across a goose buried in the ground by an avalanche and its mouth propped open with a stick underneath a fruit tree and then flash-fry its liver by mistake?

(maybe I'll do some work now....instead of researching pig milking)

Courtesy of Houston Zoo:

Pigeons usually feed their young within an hour or two of hatching. The parent takes the squab’s soft bill, with its swollen boat-shaped under mandible, into its own mouth and regurgitates pigeons’ milk. For the first few days, the squab gets only pigeons’ milk. At about the third or fourth day, it also gets morsels of any soft foods and any small seeds that the parent has eaten. By the time it is half-fledged, it is getting whatever the parents have eaten with a little pigeons’ milk.

So, yes, more like pigeons puke.