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    Has anyone tried eating the snails from their allotment or garden?

    I have eaten snails many times in France and Spain (didn't know what they were the first time until afterwards, not in shell).

    Just wondered if anyone had cooked and eaten their own little pests and did they taste like those you get in a restaurant?
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    I'm sure they are they edible but you need to starve them for some time so that their "systems" are empty when they are cooked.

    How to Prepare Garden Snails for Eating | eHow just found this link
    Last edited by Aberdeenplotter; 11-07-2014, 07:31 PM. Reason: speeling mistook

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    • #3
      I wouldn't DREAM of it There are lots of seriously nasty diseases you can catch from snails if they are not properly cooked Google it and see.

      edit: that's probably why the French cook them in garlic, which is a great purifier, but even so....
      Last edited by mothhawk; 11-07-2014, 07:30 PM.
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        I've been reading how to do it, feeding up, purifying etc, and they would be accompanied by plenty garlic butter if I tried them. I just wondered if anyone had tried and had any tips.

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        • #5
          Sorry, can only say ' YUK', the very thought, urggh 'yucky'.
          DottyR

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          • #6
            We have the very edible French ones in our garden..and smirk kindly upon them- even when they get through a whole lettuce in a day...I do seem to have noticed the smiles have become substantially thinner recently though!

            I think if you are thinking of eating your own garden snails, you will need to do loads of research first!

            Do let us know how you get on!
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            Location....Normandy France

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              • #8
                Our lodger who had lived in France for a long time is currently collecting the large snails to eat. I will let you know how they turn out. Compost King loves them! I think they are Yuck!! It seems that the ordinary snails are edible but lot cooked with garlic butter but a tomato sauce.
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                • #9
                  Vile things. Yann loves them so I do them for him while I have prawns in the garlic butter. Much nicer!!! He used to grow his own - but gave them names then coldn't eat them. Here, you don't eat the ones from the garden, there's the special variety they eat - from Bourgogne. Start a snail farm - apparently all the rage now!

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                  • #10
                    I'm told snails relocate if you move them, i.e. like homing pigeons, I wouldn't want to meet them on their return journey after dinner!

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                    • #11
                      For serious snail eaters,you need African snails






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                      • #12
                        If I ever had to eat them they would need a creosote and formaldehyde sauce, Foreigners eat all kinds of weird things. Arabs eat sheep's eyes because it sees them through the week.
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                        • #13
                          I eat snails from my garden. As meat goes, they're fairly bland, i.e. inoffensive rather than culinary. I think that's why they tend to get covered in lashings of garlic etc. To me it's both my way to deal with the biological reality that humans are omnivores, but that the way our industrial society produces animal protein is utterly disgusting, and also that it uses a resource that would otherwise go wasted, because the snails need to be killed whether I eat them or not, a simple eat or be eaten. I do hope that those who have posted exclamations of disgust in this thread are vegans.

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                          • #14
                            Country people used to collect snails and eat them all the time as 'wall fruit' as they used to call them. The only real difference from the French types is the size and variety. You would need to carry out all the same procedures of cleaning them by feeding them appropriate things but the actual 'meat' would be much less than with the large ones you have in restaurants.

                            In any case, snails in my view are only worth eating because of the garlic sauce in the shell, and the little piece of gristle which constitutes the 'snail' is only really there for the texture. Like most French delicacies, everything is in the sauce.

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                              In reality they aren't much different from eating winkles and whelks at the seaside!

                              I wonder why you have to purge snails and not whelks???
                              "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                              Location....Normandy France

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