Posted on 05/04/2007 7:42:34 AM PDT by RDTF
LIMA, Peru Carmen Gonzalez plucks one of the 50 frogs from the aquarium at her bus stop restaurant, bangs it against tiles to kill it and then makes two incisions along its belly and peels off the skin as if husking corn.
She's preparing frog juice, a beverage revered by some Andean cultures for having the power to cure asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and a low sex drive.
A drink of so-called "Peruvian Viagra" sells for about 90 cents. Gonzalez adds three ladles of hot, white bean broth, two generous spoonfuls of honey, raw aloe vera plant and several tablespoons of maca an Andean root also believed to boost stamina and sex drive into a household blender.
Then she drops the frog in.
Once strained, the result is a starchy, milkshake-like liquid that stings the throat.
At least 50 customers a day ask for steaming beer mugs of frog juice at Gonzalez's countertop-only restaurant in eastern Lima, and many treat the concoction as their morning and afternoon cup of coffee.
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Tried one...tastes like chicken smoothies.
Yo! Barrista! I’ll take a grande mocha frog smoothie with cinnamon dusting and a shot of raspberry!
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Barf
The Peruvians that I have met are incredibly nice people.
However I will never buy a smoothie from them.
I was about 17 years old, laying on a bed in a St. Louis hotel room when Dan Ackroid dropped that bass into the blender. Up to that point in my life I had never laughed so hard.
Oh yuck - I can see the animal rights wackos suggesting we eat crickets, beetles and bug smoothies - oh my.
Yeah, I guess this would make me have to eat a frog. Perhaps several.
Frog ping
“What’s red and green and goes 100 miles an hour?”
Oooh, Le double post!
Peru's this article.
I suppose there’s no need to add hops to this mixture...
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