Interesting English Discovery

[jerrybob]

New pub food.......toad and a Beamish!!!

Evidence suggests early Britons ate roasted toads - FOX Carolina 21

 

[Larro Darro]

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.

Larro

 

[2LaneCruzer]

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.

Larro

There you go. You cook one little toad and you are a frog eating society for all time.

 

[jerrybob]

There you go. You cook one little toad and you are a frog eating society for all time.

Good thing they didn't discover a horse ********........people would really be talkin!!

 

[Mace Canute]

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]

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.

 

[newbury]

Any "medicinal" values to the toads?

 

[MikeInEburg]

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.

 

[farmgirl19]

EVERYTHING goes well with Tabasco Sauce!

 

[BleedingOrange]

Any "medicinal" values to the toads?

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.