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From: asente@Cascade.ARPA
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Subject: Re: raising snails
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 15:52:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 15:52:29 1985
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Reply-To: asente@Cascade.UUCP (Paul Asente)
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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...