Frog legs really a Czech cuisine

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 3 (UPI) -- Archeologists in the Czech Republic have discovered frog legs -- a delicacy commonly associated with the French -- were in fact a Czech dish first.

The evidence comes from excavations of a hill fort east of Prague, where archeologists recently unearthed kitchen remains, the Independent on Sunday reported. This recent evidence suggests the Czechs were eating frog legs as a delicacy more than 5,000 years ago.

"The discovery indicates the dietary use of frogs in prehistory is not limited to the Western Europe only. It shows that the small vertebrate could have played an important role in human lives in central European agricultural prehistory," said a report by archaeologists at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The Independent reported most of the legs found were the hind legs of male frogs. The hind legs, which contain the most meat, are most commonly eaten.