Is it possible to eat garden snails if cooked?

[zazen999]

Like if there was a famine or not enough food to go round. I thought only in modern times that food is cheap.

Well, all I can say is they didn't turn to snails. And good on them.

You could eat poo if you wanted to; but just because you can doesn't mean you should

[Pumpkin Becki]

You could eat poo if you wanted to; but just because you can doesn't mean you should

Euwww!! Thanks for that Zaz!!

[zazen999]

Euwww!! Thanks for that Zaz!!

Sorry.
















Not.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Oh Zaz, you are a tinker!

[Brengirl]

The French.

thankyou for that....

[HeyWayne]

thankyou for that....

Enchante'...

[Two_Sheds]

Like if there was a famine or not enough food to go round.

They starved: like with the Irish potato famine. Or they just ate turnips & beetles

[Flummery]

What did British people eat when there was not anything?

Acorns. You bury them for months to leach out the tannin then grind them into a flour.

[Jeanied]

Or they smashed the acorn nuts up a bit and put them in a woven bag and left them in a stream to wash the tannins out. See, I watch Ray Mears too!!

[Flummery]

Or they smashed the acorn nuts up a bit and put them in a woven bag and left them in a stream to wash the tannins out. See, I watch Ray Mears too!!

See, I knew it before Ray Mears, the youngster!

[SarzWix]

We (Britons) used to eat things that are considered weeds these days like 'Good king Henry', 'Fat Hen', 'Chickweed' and also berries (like blackberries) and roots like wild garlic and dandelion. If it was after the Romans were here, then trapping rabbits would provide some protein.

[ohbeary]

With all due respect to the "Grapes" and visitors, there is no room for squeamishness, food is all around us be it Mendip/Dorset wallfish(snails), mushrooms, sorrel, pennywort, dandelion leaves, berries....pignuts, truffles, the list is endless, we are surrounded by food, some needs processing others are best raw, we have come a long way technologically but have forgotten so much and lost our way with wild foods, the "Chefs" rave about "wild garlic" but it was the British who taught the French to use it, tastes have altered and now garlic is considered to be a French flavour, almost any wild ground, canal paths, old railway tracks, heaths, even parks can yield a meal for those who care to look.

[Pumpy]

You forgot Squirrels.
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Originally Posted by Nick Blair

What did British people eat when there was not anything?

The French.
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That was funny, even my mates French mum would find that funny.

Snails are OK actually, seriously, what is the difference between them and mussels? Its meat. I did, when I was younger find the idea of eating snails a bit strange, but then guess so is eating frogs legs, which I've never and probably won't ever try.

Anyway enough picking on the French people.

Anyone ever had Jellyfish?

Someone once told me that of you put acorns in the ground they become Oak trees! Is there any truth in this?

[voddybabe]

lol zaz your funny, but if anyone does need to eat snail i have a whole battalion of them in my garden, so feel free to pop round lol

[OllieMartin]

I tried this once.
I collected a small bowl full of garden snails, and fed them lettuce for 2 weeks. Then boiled them, picked them out of their shells with a toothpick (that's the icky part as they're rubbery and spiral into their shells), covered them in garlic and herb butter and then...


...threw them away!

I just couldn't bring myself to eat them, they looked in no way appetising at all.