Animals: Last Thing

Each year at the Dublin Horse show, The Irish Independent exhibits some outlandish animal or object, offers a prize to the one who can guess its name. When this year’s show opened last week the Independent was displaying, in a shallow biscuit tin the last thing an Irishman might expect to see in Dublin—canned rattlesnake.*

*Packed in “Supreme Sauce,” it resembles salmon meat, is similarly served.