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Love snails. As for the recipe i simply order them off the menu.

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I had dinner with a good mate at a French restaurant. Entree was snails....but I could eat Entree/mains/dessert of snails! One thing I miss about going back regularly to Northern Spain is Snails. My

I take it your preferred method of prepping snails is under your boot?

I have a great memory, sat at the border between Cambodia and Vietnam and I'm watching an old lady work her way through what must have been a kilo bag of small snails with a chilli sauce, she noticed

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Wouldn't dream of touching them, until a few years ago someone told me it was crawfish.

Tasted wonderful I'll take them whenever there on a menu!

Maybe everything is good in garlic butter?

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Wouldn't dream of touching them, until a few years ago someone told me it was crawfish.

Tasted wonderful I'll take them whenever there on a menu!

Maybe everything is good in garlic butter?

Well, crawfish is something else altogether. Snail is a mollusc while crawfish is a freshwater lobster relative. Both are tasty though
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Well, crawfish is something else altogether. Snail is a mollusc while crawfish is a freshwater lobster relative. Both are tasty though

Sorry wasn't quite clear. After tasting it they told me what it was.lol

You are correct both are very tasty. Mmmm crawfish étouffée!

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Havent had it since I was five. We dont do much snail cooking here in Denmark. My garden is full of the big golf Ball sized ones though.

Since ten years ago we have been invaded by a Brown ibirian snail, without shell - would anyone eat those? They are a pest and a menace around here, would gladly export them!

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Havent had it since I was five. We dont do much snail cooking here in Denmark. My garden is full of the big golf Ball sized ones though.

Since ten years ago we have been invaded by a Brown ibirian snail, without shell - would anyone eat those? They are a pest and a menace around here, would gladly export them!

Get a hedgehog, they love slugs and will maintain your garden clean of them ;)

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Get a hedgehog, they love slugs and will maintain your garden clean of them ;)

Ever since I started burying my cigar ends in my gardens and tossing the powders on the leaves themselves, my herbs have been growing much better! And with no holes in the leaves anymore! Tobacco doesn't just taste great! :)

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Sort of related, don't like snails but just in the process of making Toad in the Hole for dinner, yum!

Going to have a little Spotted **** for dessert?

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The main snails raised for consumption are Helix Burgundy Snails.

Dad and I used local garden snails (introduced European Snail).

They grow big and fast in netted or glassed off vegetable garden here in the subtropics. We would hose them every few days, and pick them as required. A separate garden patch in the same area (netted off) When they finished eating the leaves of plants in one section, you pen up the second section. They would all be in the second section in a few days. Prep the other section and plant + net. Repeat every 6 weeks.

The purging is really a process of picking 2-3 dozen snails, washing them in fresh water and putting them into a fine wire (mosquito net) cage with no food. They will form a membrane across the opening and latch themselves to the wire. They clean out their intestinal system.

30 days later, collect them and wash them in warm water with a little salt. They are ready to cook.

Thank you gentleman...

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