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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.pets,net.garden,net.cooks
Subject: Re: raising snails
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 12:36:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 12:36:20 1985
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Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
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Summary: 

The discussion of snail species and questions as to the edibility of
the common (California) garden snail makes me wonder where all of you were
during the years I was exposed to the following legend:

	The legend has it that some frenchman, around the turn of the century,
	or perhaps earlier, imported a couple dozen live snails of the edible
	variety from France in order to breed them for food.  Unfortunately,
	a few escaped.  Being a foreign variety, they had no natural enemies 
	here and took over the west coast and are now the common California
	garden snail.

Please don't flame me if this is total BS.  I can't even remember the
source of the legend any more.
-- 
Herb Kanner
Tymnet, Inc.
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