Sky Video: Fed Up With Fish & Chips? Try Frogs' Legs Instead

You don't get much more British than fish and chips. But one shop in Sunderland has added a distinctly French flavour to its cuisine - frogs' legs. Sky's Peter Lane reports.

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• The ultimate hoppy meal: Chippy serves deep fried frogs' legs (Sunderland Echo)
• Why we shouldn't eat frogs' legs (Guardian)
• Are frogs on their last legs? (Guardian)
• A short history of frog eating (Guardian)

COMMENT
Although the British have been calling the French frog-eaters (now mostly shortened to Frogs) since at least the 16th century, frogs' legs are no longer a popular dish in France. However, you do find them on restaurant menus occasionally, and I have seen frozen frogs' legs on sale at Auchan. In fact, almost all the frogs' legs eaten in France come deep-frozen from Indonesia. Snails, that other great French food stereotype, are more popular, but I'm sure many younger French people have never tasted snails in their life.

PUNCTUATION POINT
Should it be "frog's legs" or "frogs' legs", or even "frog legs"?  (It's the same question for "pig's trotters", etc.) The Guardian favours the plural "frogs' legs", but a Google search throws up a lot of "frogs legs", which is definitely wrong.