The English naturalist William Buckland (1784-1856) was well known for his unusual food choices. Toasted mice, crocodile, and battered hedgehog were only a few of the delights in his journals.

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The average nineteenth-century Briton was not eating kangaroo steamer or sea slugs, but exotic dining practices were fairly common among the educated elite. It might be easy to chalk this up to ...