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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Snails from the yard
Message-ID: <388@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 09:59:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 09:59:09 1985
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>There seem to be many snails around my house and this year, instead
>of trying to poison them I am going to collect them and eat them.

You might not want to do that.  The snails that you eat in restaurants
are a particular variety (a tree snail from France).  It is very possible 
that the ones in your yard are poisonous--or at least yucky tasting.

>Any advice on how to do this? I suppose I ought to feed them a known
>diet for a while to get all the bad stuff out. What is recommended?

My daughter spent a month in southern France with a rural family.
Before she left, they asked her what she'd most like to have to eat.
She said snails.  They dug in the freezer and pulled out several 
hundred frozen snails.  They baked them in the oven, basting with
garlic butter.  That was the whole dinner--all the snails you could
eat, bread, cheese, and wine.  She got stuffed with snails.  They were 
really amazed when she told them how much that meal would cost in the 
States.

At any rate she said they went out and hunted snails often, plucked 
them off the trees, and then froze them.  So, if they are the right
kind of snails, you shouldn't have to feed them anything.
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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