These frogs are obviously very sad that their poor friends' legs got chopped off. What idiot, these frogs wonder, would chop off frog legs and not eat them? Waste not want not, my grandmother would say to him. Perhaps the idiot tried them, found them a bit chewy and cartilaginous, and spit them out. It is possible. If you are curious to know what cartilaginous frog legs would look like stained with H&E under a light microscope, I anticipated this and put the slide above. This cartilage is fibrous and contains type I collegen. It is vascular (again, bloody frog legs=yuck) and a row of chondrocytes (cells that lay down cartilage) are stained blue.
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