{"id":53,"date":"2007-06-05T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5x1z.net\/blog\/no-froglegs-today\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T19:20:00","slug":"no-froglegs-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/no-froglegs-today\/","title":{"rendered":"no froglegs today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">While working in Bujumbura I discovered a new treat. The town having a colonial past have a good mix of french\/Belgian cuisine so in several restaurants , even during the embargo it was possible to get very nice food. Good steaks, fish and why not frog legs. &#8220;cuisses grenouille&#8221; pardon my french! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This was a dish I would never even have considered trying when I was younger but once I got the travel bug in general , part of the excitement was trying the local dishes as well as anything I would potentially not find back home.<\/p>\n<p>After having tried the frog legs once in town I kind of enjoyed munching on these legs \ud83d\ude42 and it became a regular starter when I was in town.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my friends from Kampala had arrived and at lunch I suggested them to try this delicacy.<\/p>\n<p>Then the waiter , a bit embarrassed says &#8211; Pardon Monsieur, no Frog legs today (in french of course)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; hmm no frog legs and here I have finally convinced my friends to try them?! All my friend of which half from Uganda sighed with relief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; No monsieur, you know&#8230;.. the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; what.. the rebels&#8230; What do the rebels have to do with my frog legs??<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monsieur, you know the area where the rebels shell the town with mortars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yes<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pardon monsieur, but that is where the frog farm is and yesterday the military was doing raids so no delivery today.<\/p>\n<p>-!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>There should not be many valid reasons for a restaurant not to have the food written on the menu but who can argue with this reason.!!<\/p>\n<p>Only in Africa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working in Bujumbura I discovered a new treat. The town having a colonial past have a good mix of french\/Belgian cuisine so in several restaurants , even during the embargo it was possible to get very nice food. Good steaks, fish and why not frog legs. &#8220;cuisses grenouille&#8221; pardon my french! \ud83d\ude42 This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[27,351,47,89,109,177,183,192,208,210,212],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanitarian-2","category-travel","tag-5x1z","tag-africa-travel","tag-burundi","tag-fittest","tag-hungry-poor","tag-sm7pkk","tag-starving","tag-tanganyika","tag-war","tag-waterski","tag-wfp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MMuc-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotterlife.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}