Comments on: snails

By: ekomalty

ekomalty — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:01:49 +0000

Get a grip, how can some of you defend the poor snail when I am sure you would eat other “poor defencelss animals”

Survival, eat what you feel floats you boat so as long as you dont kill the species off in its entirity

By: make-up101

make-up101 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:13:38 +0000

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRACKING OPEN THE DELICATE SHELLS OF DEFENCESLESS SNAILS THEN FRYING THEM IN BUTTER AND EATING THEM!!!!!!!!!! UR ALL PHYCOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: snailspacevii

snailspacevii — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:08:23 +0000

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By: paul

paul — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:52:32 +0000

well im trying it,they are all well feed an healthy, couple of days an they will be ready

By: Shades of Grey

Shades of Grey — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:05:21 +0000

Just back from the Charente where the markets were crawling (?) with cagouillles. Most restaurants we visited seemed to have a snail dish on the menu as well. We turned down the opportunities presented to us, prefering to wait until Heston feeds them to us…

By: Le Rev Dr

Le Rev Dr — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:54:53 +0000

Snails
28-7-5

Sir,
I have done this.

It’ll end in tears…

—

Some years ago

my evil sexy monobrow French teacher loup;
Francois (funnily enough)
told me that garden snails were fine
and that garden snails were fine
and that eating snails found climbing on the fence in the garden
was fine
and that eating snails found climbing on the on the footpathh
was fine
and told me the recipe.

I wasn’t afraid of anything those days

and besides

he was trying to fuck my girlfriend.

SO we gathered snails
put them in an esky
with loads of flour
and left them for three days -
one extra -
just to be sure.

ON THE THIRD DAY

we removed the snails,
murdered them
by removing their shells
and guts

by hand

and boiled them
a little.

We were dry wretching
from the thought

and the stench

that afternoon.

NEVER to be defeated
we invited a friend ’round
and cooked some kinda bolognese - (that’s Italian, ‘Tish…)
garlic tomato SNAILS.

He loved it!

I had to prove it wasn’t poison;
ate a tiny bit
and lost all the “courage” I had accumulated that day.

Pasta was well cooked though…

It has been ten years;

I no longer do ‘escgargot.’

By: Bendigeidfran

Bendigeidfran — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:21:07 +0000

I was aware that skin pigment can be changed by diet. Xanthophyll (a carotenoid) is the yellow pigment in corn that turns chicken’s skin yellow.
Other carotenoids which turn flamingos pink and also carrots and sunny delight can turn a person orange if they eat an awful lot of them.

Perhaps an experiment is in order.
I saw these guys at regents park last summer. http://www.omlet.co.uk
They do really neat fox proof chicken housing for your garden.
I must admit the thing that attracted me was the cute little chickens with feathers on their feet…awww

By: Yorkshire Soul

Yorkshire Soul — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:54:21 +0000

Corn fed chickens/game birds certainly take on a pleasent yellow colour and nice flavour.

We were taught at college that if you fed chickens on fishmeal you would taste fish in their eggs, I havn’t tried this though.

By: Bendigeidfran

Bendigeidfran — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:56:04 +0000

you were quite slow in getting that joke ;-)

By: fraser

fraser — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:35:32 +0000

Ha. Not until now. D’oh.