I am pretty sure, and DH, agrees that we have not come across rana on a menu anywhere, but will keep an eye out, and I will ask some of my friends, one of whom is in contact with some very poor fishing people. Otherwise I guess the bodies go the way of other animal wastes – farm fertilizer or animal feeds….

And that reminds me of the most appalling but very funny experience we had on one of the main highways here one night around 1992. It was lovely clear night for driving, and we were on a beautiful new modern highway, heading towards Montevideo. Suddenly on the road in front of the car was a splat of something that looked pinkish, lumpy and yet liquid – quilte like a huge pile of vomit really, then another splat, and another, and then it became a trail down the middle of our side of the road. DH did a good job of carefully straddling it and not sliding in it. It was just amazing – eventually we stopped the car to see what it was – fish guts, absolutely no doubt about it. We passed a group of houses with people standing outside, very puzzled, no doubt pondering the difficulty of getting rid of it, and worrying what it would pong like over the next days whether they swept it off the road or left it there …. and still the trail went on. A police car ‘raced’ past us… and another…. and finally, after about 20 MILES/ 30KM, I kid you not, there in the middle of the road were police and other people, no doubt including the hapless driver, standing around a huge tanker truck. Clearly the trapdoor had come loose, and the whole load had gradually emptied out onto the road. Back in Montevideo we drove through some very deep puddles to wash the underside of the rental car. But, pheeeeew! by the end of the next day we simply had to turn that car in for another – of course splatters got up into the engine and all kinds of places, didn’t they? and I doubt that vehicle was ever the same again no matter what they tried to do with it, because every time the engine warmed the stink would come back.