Niall Hatch

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.

Bigger, fatter legs.

That's right.

Yeah, I was there in October and there were no mosquitoes.

And the flamingos were great.

We got up at dawn and they were like flying broomsticks because they're long and their neck is out and their legs are out and they have just wings in the middle and they're like sticks.

And against the skylight, all you need is a witch sitting on one end of it and you really would believe.

But they do look like flying broomsticks.

But I'm sure when they look pink in the daytime...

That's taken away.

It is.

or choose to you?

Was it just smaller than the others or was it a different colour or pink or how did you know?