FRIED BEETLES, FROGS, LIZARDS
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
In my old hometown of once idyllic Tuguegarao
Did I learn to eat as culinary dishes of exotic claim
Fried beetles caught from slumbering farms
Same species that swarmed the fecals of livestock
Trapped they’re thereafter prepared for the cook
With lard boiling up to destroy bacteria
Concluded with deliciously smelling delicacy
Fried frogs from dark species coming from farms
Croaking still while they’re being prepared for caldron
Skinned so exquisitely and looking funny they’re then
Immersed in pepper & soy sauce & garlic
Then boiled in hot lard to cook & kill germs too
Concluded served as adobo-type delicatessen
Fried monitor lizard of size huge to match big rooster
Caught too from farms right in my hometown
Then brought to home prepared thus for cooking
Skinned and cut out so exquisitely too
Immersed likewise in soy sauce & pepper & garlic
Then immersed in caldron of fiery lard
Concluded thus a wonderful delicacy it is adobo lizard
No more do I eat fried beetles today
But surely my stomach can still intake frogs & lizards
They I can proudly present to guests and observers
[Philippines, 23 July 2011]
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