Season catching frogs in Transcarpathia is almost complete

In the vicinity of the village of Turia Remety Perechinskiy district Transcarpathia region every year in late March - early April in the old riverbed Turichki caught for eating frogs. Recently, it ends with season-2010, which was slightly extended by a rather cold winter.

Turia Remety - the only village in the Carpathians, where the catch frogs. Local residents concerned about amphibian populations that they are not extinct.

Frogs prepare, sell to restaurants, as well as frost on winter.

This tradition in the village brought the French in the early XIX century. There is a version that in 1816 after the Battle of Waterloo, victorious countries - Russia, Prussia, Austria, Britain - decided to take France out of all the officers of the army, which subsequently could again create riots and cause a conflict against the return of the royal dynasty. Since the most remote place of the Austrian Empire was Transcarpathia, Austria has sent the French here.

Local legend has it that among the deportees came across a researcher, chef, student of the famous Auguste Eskofe, who brought with him the memory of his native cuisine several French frogs, and already here, on the ground, crossed them with local frogs. Now these frogs live in an old riverbed Turichki.

Turyaremetivtsi say that there can be only the frogs caught in pervue thunderstorms. Since the first storm somewhere in April, it is in April, comes the moment when the frog's skin is already adheres to the meat.

The villagers believe that the frog legs - a source of various biologically active substances that dramatically increases male potency and prolong life.

Source: ZIK