Show SOME QUEER FOODS FASHIONS IN EDIBLES VARY WITH TASTE AND CONDITION what to one race will seem natural and toothsome article of diet might seem to Others rep repulsive Fasli ions in foods vary as do most nf mans needs with taste and circumstance it has been truly said that one mans meat Is another mans poison what to one race of people will seem a perfectly proper and natural U and toothsome article of diet will to others seem repulsive and even disgusting the exigencies of climatic conditions will afford some explanation of the varying nature and required for human sustenance thus the intense cold of the arctic regions will explain why the esquino are able not only to eat and drink substances as foreign to our tastes as walrus frozen seal and train oil but to gorge themselves to a disgusting extent sir john ross said that an perhaps eats 20 pounds of flesh and oil dally daily but climatic considerations do not explain why some tribes in tropical regions can exist almost solely on a meat diet or why others in africa and polynesia should indulge in the horrible and degrading practise s 0 of atesh j 1 ft esh of the samel Is eaten with re parts of africa but Is alleged by arabs to produce serious disorders of tho the stomach one was eaten during the siege of paris and Is said to have tasted like aike veal A camels hump Is considered something of a delicacy by many desert tribes crocodiles are eaten by a few african tribes as also their eggs dr livingstone wrote to us tho idea of tasting the musky scented fishy looking flesh carried the idea of cannibalism sm of croco crocodiles olles eggs he be said in taste they resemble hens hene eggs with perhaps a smack of custard nd would be as highly relished by whites as blacks were it not for their an savory origin in man eaters the oad Is also an article of diet with some negro races the crested basilisk a reptile upwards of a yard in length is eaten by the inhabitants of Amo boyna and the east indian archipelago the insect world is also calli called iad upon to contribute to the dietary of our more or less colored brethren spiders are eaten by the natives of now caledonia and the bushmen of south africa who also eat grasshoppers cocu locusts S t S are eaten in great quantities both fresh and salted by persians egyptians and arabians Dl Di odorous Si cultis and ludolphus both refer to the as an article of diet the tha t latte later f remarks for it A is a very sweet and wholesome sort of diet by means of which a certain portuguese garrison in india that was ready to yield for want of provisions held out till it was relieved another way locusts have a strongly vegetable taste the flavor varying with the plants on which they feed |