Ever eaten garden snails?
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- Fax_Benson
The internet says it's possible. They're eating our lettuce, so they've got no complaints.
- PIZZA0
Yes it is possible, you need to prepare them properly though which involves keeping them alive in a jar for a while and feeding them clean lettuce to make sure all the potentially bad shit is out of their system.
- what a load of bollocks hackentish
- ...yes out of your system cockheadspraycan
- don't shoot the messenger, saw it on some channel 4 cooking showPIZZA
- Seems legitsneakybadger
- Fax_Benson0
Does what you feed them on affect the taste?
- Yeah, so feed them candy canes for three weeks and they're a lot sweeter.aanderton
- dmay0
- DeSiard0
Reminds me of what the old timers used to say about eating possum. I think they came to the realization that the possum was eating better than they were, so they stopped fooling with 'em. That and it's just gross.
- flashbender0
just get some hedgehogs - they love to eat snails.
And they are cute
- make the hedgehogs taste of snails. logical prgression.Fax_Benson
- true, but you don't eat the hedgehogs - too much work for the small amount of meat you get.flashbender
- But they come with their own cocktail sticks!sneakybadger
- won't the hedgehogs just run away?Douglas
- spraycan0
Grab a French recipe
- orrinward0
I wouldn't advise it unless you were to detox them for a long time. I've never considered it, but they're the most common cause of a bunch of different types of worms in dogs. My Jack Russell eats slugs/snails all the time and we constantly have to worm her...
- that's not true,
spraycan - "worm her"?Lillebo
- yeah, I'd clean em up and do what's necessary. snails cause dog worms?Fax_Benson
- This is true, at least in England. Both vets I use recommended worming if my dog ate snails, and the worming medicine recommends using it for the same reason.orrinward
- de-wormsherm
- that's not true,
- vitamins0
Snails are disgusting
- CALLES0
i think you are better off eating the lettuce yourself
- Ranger0
Doesn't appeal to me but Gordon Ramsay did this on the F word a while back, explains it here>
- dmay0
Portuguese recipe:
http://www.ichef.com/recipe.cfm/…- That's the kind of thing I was imagining. Chilli / garlic snails.Fax_Benson
- vitamins0
- Looks kind of like a vag.juhls
- uh, not like any vag i've ever seen.bigtrick
- lol, im with bigtrick, unlucky mate, you've only seen some vag monsterHombre_Lobo
- my gf has beef curtainsvitamins
- this looks exactly like every vag i've ever seen.iCanHasQBN
- looks like vag to me too.sherm
- if that's what a vagina looks like I'm glad Im gayJosev
- miesvan0
is like eating snots
- user_00120
they kinda cute
- vitamins0
Food is all relative
- Sandder0
There's a particularly interesting episode of River Cottage on exactly this topic. Look for the torrent. The outcome, in a nutshell, is: yes they're edible, but taste is not great and it is a lot of work to prep them in a way that is somewhat acceptable. Chickens, however, love them. So collect them and feed your other meal.
- linearch0
get either sluggo or make beer traps. you will never be able to eat them all and they will continue to ruin your veggies.
- Mal0
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