Snails

MidlandsM · 21-07-2012 11:33PM #1

I was gardening earlier, down on my hands and knee's plucking away at grass and weeds, and I saw dozens of snails......big ones, small ones and what looked to be good juicy ones............one's that might sizzle well on the frying pan with some butter and maybe some garlic....:P

So, would you eat them? or Frogs for that matter........would you eat those also?

chin_grin · 21-07-2012 11:34PM

I was only talking about this earlier with mates (who have tried frogs legs). I'd never like to eat escargots...I think it's due to the fact that it being smothered in garlic butter would negate the "snail-ey" taste. I mean the texture alone would put me off. Why I can't go near calamari. Eugh!

Sauve · 21-07-2012 11:38PM

There's plenty of delicious beef in Ireland without messing around with all that foreign muck :pac:

Pinturicchio · 21-07-2012 11:38PM

I've tried snails. They just tasted of garlic really.

Chuck Stone · 21-07-2012 11:38PM

Not for me.

You know what's horrible?

When you crunch a snail underfoot in the dark - gives me the heebie-jeebies for some strange reason.

My name is URL · 21-07-2012 11:39PM

It's not the taste I'd be worried about.. it's the texture. Don't think I stomach it... though I thought the same before I tried balut and it wasn't so bad really.

keith16 · 21-07-2012 11:39PM

Have eaten snails before. Tasty, but not amazing.

Sauve · 21-07-2012 11:41PM

My name is URL wrote: »

I tried balut and it wasn't so bad really.

I just googled that.
I really really wish I hadn't. :eek:

EoghanIRL · 21-07-2012 11:41PM

Are the snails that people cook the same type of garden snails?

chin_grin · 21-07-2012 11:42PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Not for me.

You know what's horrible?

When you crunch a snail underfoot in the dark - gives me the heebie-jeebies for some strange reason.

+1! Yeah really puts the shivers up me!

Although I don't recommend (but I'd really like for yee to try) to put a bowl of beer out if you have a slug problem. Read on the net that it was a 'fix' to get rid of them....The aftermath made me nearly puke!

EoghanIRL · 21-07-2012 11:43PM

keith16 wrote: »

Have eaten snails before. Tasty, but not amazing.

Ive never had snails but I did have alligator last year. Tastes like chicken

lolz81 · 21-07-2012 11:44PM

Go away will ya, we're Irish. We eat chickens, pigs and cows. Lambs at a push but even that's questionable.

kylith · 21-07-2012 11:45PM

I've eaten escargot, and I quite like it too. Common garden snails are perfectly edible, but you have to put them in a tupperware box and feed them lettuce for about a week to get anything poisonous out of their systems.

Jesus Shaves · 21-07-2012 11:46PM

lolz81 wrote: »

Go away will ya, we're Irish. We eat chickens, pigs and cows. Lambs at a push but even that's questionable.

yep anything that goes with potatoes, snails don't go with potatoes

Steffano2002 · 21-07-2012 11:47PM

Aldi and Lidl sell them in the frozen food section. I love them! But then again I'm French...

galwayrush · 21-07-2012 11:47PM

FFS why? ...:eek:

My name is URL · 21-07-2012 11:47PM

Sauve wrote: »

I just googled that.
I really really wish I hadn't. :eek:

It looks a bit dodgy alright but it tastes strangely familiar. Kind of like eating chicken and egg at the same time, strangely enough =p I just tried it as a bet though.. wouldn't be rushing back for more!

lolz81 · 21-07-2012 11:47PM

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

yep anything that goes with potatoes, snails don't go with potatoes

Exactly! You know.

keith16 · 21-07-2012 11:52PM

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Are the snails that people cook the same type of garden snails?

I don't think so. As far as I know (in France anyway) they have snail farms where they breed large varieties. The garden ones ya get here are generally too small for cooking.

galwayrush · 21-07-2012 11:55PM

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Are the snails that people cook the same type of garden snails?

Only ones with a French accent are cooked normally;

keith16 · 21-07-2012 11:58PM

galwayrush wrote: »

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Are the snails that people cook the same type of garden snails?

Only ones with a French accent are cooked normally;

Not the French-Canadian ones. They're pricks.

MidlandsM · 21-07-2012 11:59PM

keith16 wrote: »

I don't think so. As far as I know (in France anyway) they have snail farms where they breed large varieties. The garden ones ya get here are generally too small for cooking.

the ones I see and saw in my garden are massive, well good for cooking:P

keith16 · 22-07-2012 12:05AM

MidlandsM wrote: »

keith16 wrote: »

I don't think so. As far as I know (in France anyway) they have snail farms where they breed large varieties. The garden ones ya get here are generally too small for cooking.

the ones I see and saw in my garden are massive, well good for cooking:P

In that case there is nuclear waste buried in your garden which is spawning these giant shelled molluscs.

I for one welcome our new snail overlords.

MidlandsM · 22-07-2012 12:14AM

galwayrush wrote: »

FFS why? ...:eek:

well, they seem to be everywhere in this wet summer we're having or just had....lift up a clump of grass in any garden and there they are.......going to waste or for the birds.......so they'd be free,plentiful, organic, free range and different.....that's why.

keith16 wrote: »

In that case there is nuclear waste buried in your garden which is spawning these giant shelled molluscs.

I for one welcome our new snail overlords.

lol ........me too, tasty overlords.:)

Birdnuts · 22-07-2012 12:14AM

Snails are really just another type of shellfish that happens to live on land instead of the sea - I enjoy them every time I visit France, very tasty too with garlic sauce:)

Notorioux · 22-07-2012 12:31AM

My name is URL wrote: »

It's not the taste I'd be worried about.. it's the texture. Don't think I stomach it... though I thought the same before I tried balut and it wasn't so bad really.

+1 with balut. Tried it when I went to the Philippines with my mates last summer and it wasn't so bad, the yellow bit is tasty.

I didn't eat the poor baby bird though.

Captain Graphite · 22-07-2012 12:34AM

I've never had escargots 'cause I don't really like garlic! If they came in chilli sauce or pepper sauce I might give 'em a go. Texture would bother me a bit though; there are lots of foods I like the taste of but can't eat because of the texture (peppers, hazelnuts, oranges, mushrooms....there's probably a few more)

starbelgrade · 22-07-2012 12:44AM

MidlandsM wrote: »

I was gardening earlier, down on my hands and knee's plucking away at grass and weeds, and I saw dozens of snails......big ones, small ones and what looked to be good juicy ones....

I find this sentence mildly erotic.

up for anything · 22-07-2012 12:51AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Not for me.

You know what's horrible?

When you crunch a snail underfoot in the dark - gives me the heebie-jeebies for some strange reason.

Just as bad is squashing a slug. They pop.

MidlandsM wrote: »

well, they seem to be everywhere in this wet summer we're having or just had....lift up a clump of grass in any garden and there they are.......going to waste or for the birds.......so they'd be free,plentiful, organic, free range and different.....that's why.

How would you slaughter them before cooking? Surely you wouldn't cook them live.

Johro · 22-07-2012 12:56AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I find this sentence mildly erotic.

On the other hand, you 'cracked one off to the cadbury bunny ad' so em... surprised?
No.

Johro · 22-07-2012 01:00AM

MidlandsM wrote: »

the ones I see and saw in my garden are massive, well good for cooking:P

You mean slugs though yeah? Not snails like.
Big grey/black plump f#ckers. Eating my veggies. You're welcome to 'em.

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