Niall Hatch

It's fantastic, isn't it?

So they're naturalised in the wild.

They had a crossbreed at some stage by themselves.

And they have big fat back legs and muscles on them, which is what all that's eaten of the frog.

It's just the back legs.

Only once.

I really think maybe eating frogs is not a good thing to be doing from a point of view of conservation and wildlife.

I've gotten sense of the old age.

No, we don't.

We can live without eating frog's legs.

I mean, maybe long ago people were starving and they had to eat local foods and fine.

But in this day and age, you know.

All of these things are just a vehicle for carrying beautiful sauces.

You should know that now.

But in the posh restaurants that you frequent, Niall, are they offered as courses on the...

I dare to give you a rise, you'll be able to pay for them soon.

It's just the mating season, yeah, because they come out later from hibernation than does the rana temporaria or common frog.

And

The story is, and I'm sure it was true at one point, the French who were waiting at the end of the winter for the seasonal food would eat the common frog because it came out first.

And then once the marsh frog, once the edible frog came out, then the one that you were hearing there in France, they stopped eating the common frog because the other fella had bigger, fatter legs.