Their meat is extraordinarily tasty, a fact that has given rise to a Chinese expression about lecherous oglers of beautiful women: "The toad wants to eat the swan's flesh."
天鵝的進食和飲水每天都在一公斤左右，它的肉質異常鮮美，由是才會出現「癩蛤蟆想吃天鵝肉」的諺語吧！