Snails

Amalgam · 22-07-2012 01:01AM

EoghanIRL wrote: »

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

Yes. As a kid, I made a ton of money collecting them for retail and home use, in France. Price went up\down depending on how wet or dry the season (Summer) was..

Old biddy beside us would throw the helpless feckers into the cooking pot alive.. (how do you kill a snail exactly, yet keep it in one piece..)

One or two of the hardy ones would climb up and get their little eyes trapped\mushed by the lid. She cooked them with a fresh tomato sauce and some herbs.

Frogs legs taste like pencil erasers, there's a reason so much butter\garlic\parsley is used..

I'm a changed person now, we have a pet snail that's fond of crackers.. and the box they come packaged in, you can hear him\her eating from the other room. ('radula' scraping off his food)

Abi · 22-07-2012 01:47AM

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............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?

I've a fruit and veg patch I'm having an awful time keeping slugs from. I can send you all of them if you don't fancy having to de-shell anything. Big fat juicey ones too

starbelgrade · 22-07-2012 01:51AM

Abi wrote: »

I've a fruit and veg patch I'm having an awful time keeping slugs from.

Another kinky sentence.

Johro · 22-07-2012 02:00AM

Abi wrote: »

I've a fruit and veg patch I'm having an awful time keeping slugs from. I can send you all of them if you don't fancy having to de-shell anything. Big fat juicey ones too

Same here. Turns out that '...ferric phosphate slug pellets are completely specific to molluscs, entirely safe for pets and wildlife, and will degrade into a soil enhancing plant food.'
Slug pellets FTW.

Johro · 22-07-2012 02:02AM

MidlandsM wrote: »

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

Nooooooooo.....
But frogs will eat snails and slugs.

Mickey H · 22-07-2012 02:03AM

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.

That's because you've either murdered it or made it homeless.

IrishAm · 22-07-2012 02:04AM

Abi wrote: »

I've a fruit and veg patch I'm having an awful time keeping slugs from. I can send you all of them if you don't fancy having to de-shell anything. Big fat juicey ones too

Pour salt around the patch. Snails dissolve if salt gets onto them.

Johro · 22-07-2012 02:04AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Another kinky sentence.

Your sex drive may be running a tad high at idle.

LETHAL LADY · 22-07-2012 02:07AM

Never ate one but I do sometimes use a slug for a comedy moustache.

Johro · 22-07-2012 02:18AM

IrishAm wrote: »

Pour salt around the patch. Snails dissolve if salt gets onto them.

You'd want an awful lot of salt to protect a veggie patch and rain would dissolve and water in the salt, not great for any plants growing in the soil. Also, any slug that comes into contact with salt swells into a slimy mess, it's pretty disgusting. Some people go round the veggie patch with buckets with a bit of salt in alright, and just pick off the slugs and drop them in the bucket.
Slug pellets work best, or else a beer trap, just a small dish with a good splash of beer in it, slugs and snails crawl in coz they can't resist beer and die happy. Needs a little cover to stop rain watering down the beer but that's all.
Ya get 12 bottles of french beer at Aldi for 4.99

Lasts ya ages.

AskMyChocolate · 22-07-2012 03:08AM

Johro wrote: »

You'd want an awful lot of salt to protect a veggie patch and rain would dissolve and water in the salt, not great for any plants growing in the soil. Also, any slug that comes into contact with salt swells into a slimy mess, it's pretty disgusting. Some people go round the veggie patch with buckets with a bit of salt in alright, and just pick off the slugs and drop them in the bucket.
Slug pellets work best, or else a beer trap, just a small dish with a good splash of beer in it, slugs and snails crawl in coz they can't resist beer and die happy. Needs a little cover to stop rain watering down the beer but that's all.
Ya get 12 bottles of french beer at Aldi for 4.99 Lasts ya ages.

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What did the slug say to the snail? ...

... Big Issues?

gammygils · 22-07-2012 03:23AM

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............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?

You're not confusing snails with slugs now are ya?

Slugs would be juicy. Snails would be more crunchy!!

Canis Lupus · 22-07-2012 03:47AM

Cycling through France me and my mate regularly came across entire families out with buckets rooting through the hedgerows. Took us a while till we finally copped they were all out collecting snails. Grooossss.

Princess Peach · 22-07-2012 03:49AM

It's called a shellakabuukie actually.

I like to pick them off paths and place in the grass so they won't get smushed.

AskMyChocolate · 22-07-2012 04:03AM

Princess Peach wrote: »

It's called a shellakabuukie actually.

I like to pick them off paths and place in the grass so they won't get smushed.

Calling StarBelgrade...Calling StarBelgrade...

Come in StarBelgrade... Do you copy....over.

ziggy23 · 22-07-2012 04:12AM

No that's sick and not to mention they are full of germs. I always feel terrible guilty when I stand on one and squish its shell:(

lau1247 · 22-07-2012 10:54AM

cook thoroughly before eating..

you probably won't eat any more snails after reading this and this

Cookie_Monster · 22-07-2012 11:09AM

Snails are ok, frogs legs are pretty crappy. Horse is really nice

Abi wrote: »

I've a fruit and veg patch I'm having an awful time keeping slugs from. I can send you all of them if you don't fancy having to de-shell anything. Big fat juicey ones too

Hugh Fernley Whittingdale tried to cook then, didn't go too well. Too slimey

Get a plastic milk carton, cut top off, fill with cheap beer and bury to rim level. Put a tile or something over it so it doesn't get wet and provides a nice hiding place. They love it and die happy.

22-07-2012 11:10AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

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

That shiver is you absorbing the quickening from the snail a-la Highlander.

MidlandsM · 22-07-2012 11:58AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I find this sentence mildly erotic.

i feel dur-ty and violated now..........ughhhhhhh :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

kfallon · 22-07-2012 12:11PM

L'escargot.......great horse

Johro · 24-07-2012 01:22AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Get a plastic milk carton

Impossible.

JustAThought · 24-07-2012 06:49AM

Notorioux wrote: »

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.

I wish hadn't googled that

Tried snails in France once : 3 of them. Can still see the pale snail in my hand.
Tasted snailey . In garlic. Remember gnawing at it .Never again. Hard to get the horror out of your memory.

MidlandsM · 24-07-2012 10:29AM

JustAThought wrote: »

I wish hadn't googled that

Tried snails in France once : 3 of them. Can still see the pale snail in my hand.
Tasted snailey . In garlic. Remember gnawing at it .Never again. Hard to get the horror out of your memory.

ahhh grow a set FFS.........:rolleyes:

kfallon · 24-07-2012 10:32AM

There seems to be loads of them around lately, can't move in the IFSC for nearly standing on one. And when someone does stand on one the flies have a field day on the remains

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