Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Cascade.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!Glacier!Cascade!asente From: asente@Cascade.ARPA Newsgroups: net.pets,net.garden,net.cooks Subject: Re: raising snails Message-ID: <17@Cascade.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 15:52:29 EST Article-I.D.: Cascade.17 Posted: Fri Nov 1 15:52:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:35:57 EST References: <5410@amdcad.UUCP> <2161@amdahl.UUCP> <2604@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: asente@Cascade.UUCP (Paul Asente) Organization: Stanford University CIS Apple Orchard Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.pets:1261 net.garden:820 net.cooks:5284 Summary: In article <2604@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: >One thing that I have not seen in the responses to the initial >snail-eating posting: Are domestic American garden-varieties of snails >safe to eat at all? Do they taste the same as the fancy French >varieties, which are, I believe, raised commercially as opposed to being >harvested from the wild? I have read several times (in newspaper articles and the like) that the common snails we have in the SF Bay Area are *identical* to French snails. Unfortunately I don't have any hard references on this. All seemed to stress the importance of feeding them yourself for a while to clean out their systems. (on lettuce, not cornmeal as someone suggested--cornmeal is for clams) >(I have eaten snails, so this is not just unreasoning anti-snail fear. >I've had some that taste like mud, and others tht tasted great. Best >were in a little restaurant in Menlo Park, CA, called Le Pot-Au-Feu -- >anybody know if it still exists?) Sure does. -paul asente asente@SU-Cascade.ARPA decwrl!Glacier!Cascade!asente Anyone for banana slug recipes? No, I thought not...