Fried Frog Legs

One of my favorite sports as a child was frog gigging, but I think the real fascination for me was watching the legs move hours after the frog was killed. I used to beg my mother to let me shake salt or lemon juice on them. I’ve seen the legs of large dead bullfrogs contract so much when sprinkled with lemon juice that they have literally jumped off the counter. Bullfrogs live in all of the contiguous 48 states. Where I grew up, a few blocks from the banks of the Edisto River—the longest bl