Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site osiris.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!osiris!jcp From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) Newsgroups: net.garden,net.cooks Subject: Re: raising snails Message-ID: <576@osiris.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 09:45:10 EST Article-I.D.: osiris.576 Posted: Tue Oct 29 09:45:10 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 01:25:36 EST References: <5410@amdcad.UUCP> <503@ttidcb.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 16 Xref: linus net.garden:731 net.cooks:4244 > > You should feed them on a diet of cornmeal for about three days > before they are to be consumed (a friend of mine works at an > italian restaurant and this is what they do). I have seen them > fried, deep fried and steamed (very chewy, yukk!). Good luck. > Pierre Franey tells a funny story of his boyhood in France, where they collect snails in the fall, feed them mostly lettuce through the winter and eat them in the early spring. He and his father had gathered a couple of buckets full and left them sitting overnight without being tightly sealed. In the morning they were all awakened by Mme. Franey screaming at the top of her lungs. Seems the snails had gotten out and were crawling across the ceiling in her bedroom. -- jcpatilla