must be franco-indochine influence on the frogs
I've never heard and explanation for the pork-in-everything gastronomy of the Thai , supposed it would be economic , can't afford to graize cattle in a tropical rice country ...
"Skeptical of this convenient filling in of the blank, scholars have pointed out that Pali uses a different word for “pork,” sukara-mamsa; they believe that sukara-maddava should be translated “pig food,” not “pig meat,” and that it most likely refers to truffles, a porcine delicacy. (Maddava has a secondary meaning of “something soft or delicate.”) They are convinced that the Buddha died from eating a poisonous mushroom, not tainted pork"