Would you eat a garden snail??

[Flytrap]

I don't mind snails. They can be served in many ways, not just garlic butter. I've had a very nice creamy snail cassarole and my favorite was snails in a tomato sauce with melted cheese on top, yum.
I can understand why the thought of eating them makes people feel sick but they are not slimey when cooked. They are purged of all the slime beforehand. Can't see and difference between snails and other molluscs, ever had mussels?
And for those that have eaten escargot in France but wouldn't touch garden snails, they are the same thing. Helix aspersa. They may well be stuffed into a Helix promatia shell but are almost always helix aspersia. Yum, yum.

[tootles]

Our neighbour hangs his in a wire basket and feeds them nothing but parsley for a week.
Pre stuffed!!!

[selfraising]

Our neighbour hangs his in a wire basket and feeds them nothing but parsley for a week.
Pre stuffed!!!

OMG! I'm sorry, I know some people seem to like eating snails but if it was wobbly looking in life, I just can't eat it I always thought that the snails used in France and for cooking were specific snails that were farmed for the purpose and not your common or garden snail

[tootles]

It is a particular variety (that also happens to be found in the garden) I forget the name - but he wouldn't eat just any old garden snail.

[Flytrap]

The garden snail is Helix aspersa. The French generally eat Petit Gris (Helix aspersa muller) or Gros Gris (Helix aspersa maxima) or Escargot de Bourgogne (Helix Promatia).
Helix Promatia have the nice thick shells but are harder to farm. Helix aspersa have weak shells but are easy to farm. The shells of Helix Promatia are often saved and re-used but then stuffed with Helix aspersa meat.

[selfraising]

Ahaa! I thought so, although apart from the size, I woudn't have thought there's much difference in taste.

[bubblewrap]

Just watched an item on the One Show whereby in order to keep her garden snails at a manageable level, the woman concerned cooked them and ate them! Anyone else prepared to go to this extreme to get rid of their garden pests?

If I could catch them ........................I'm a tad slow these days

[selfraising]

If I could catch them ........................I'm a tad slow these days

You must have express snails, now thats what i call fast food