# frogs legs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-legs/93156>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 13, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-legs/93156 "2001-11-13T17:51:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-legs/93156/1 "2001-11-13T17:51:51Z")

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More specifically, what happens to the rest of the frog when the legs are taken for human consumption?

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**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-legs/93156/2 "2001-11-13T17:55:46Z")

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I’m sure it goes in the trash, just like when you gut other animals.

Frog legs is good eatin’!

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**Author:** ![handandahalf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@handandahalf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handandahalf)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-legs/93156/3 "2001-11-13T18:21:14Z")

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There’s plenty of other good meat on a frog, it’s just not so easy to get as the leg meat. When I was younger, we’d fry the legs and (headless) torsos as seperate batches when the extended family had a fish fry.

On commercial frog farms, if there are such things, I would imagine that the rest of the frog goes into a compost heap, of which portions are then fed to earthworm trays, which are then fed to the frogs.

And Ivar’s right, there’s nothing that tastes quite like a mess of Kermit legs!

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**Author:** ![Jimbrowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@Jimbrowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimbrowski)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-legs/93156/4 "2001-11-13T19:42:50Z")

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The wealthy ones are fitted with prosthetics, the rest have to hobble around on their stumps.

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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-legs/93156/5 "2001-11-14T12:53:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jimbrowski \*  
> \*\*The wealthy ones are fitted with prosthetics, the rest have to hobble around on their stumps. \*\*

As can be seen [here](http://maki.simplenet.com/dmm/frog/frogwek7.htm). :rolleyes: