How REVOLTING!

[NOG]

Experimenting is good but some times you know the outcome before it happens....

You know slugs will taste crap...cos otherwise the french would eat them.

[Incy]

Experimenting is good but some times you know the outcome before it happens....

You know slugs will taste crap...cos otherwise the french would eat them.

Having lived in France for a number of years, I had to laugh out loud at this comment. I love France and the French but Oh so true!

[pdblake]

To be fair he did say at the end that the recipe would be improved by leaving out the slugs

I usually find that his madcap ideas turn out OK in the end, I try a lot of them, but thie slugs even made me cringe. That seaweed chinese thing looked nice though. Next time I take the kids to the seaside I'll be taking an extra bucket

If you don't try you'll never know

[Alison]

Didn't bother me although I wouldn't want to eat them however OH was gagging over his brew.

[Flummery]

"he only does it to annoy..."

[HeyWayne]

Didn't the slime look a lot like gelatine though?

[WeeGarden]

I have to admit, I did retch so much that my dear husband ran to get a bowl.

As for the stir fry - looks good, but maybe they could have found the ingredients from somewhere other than a drain right next to a busy carriageway? As a drainage design engineer I have to say that they drainage ditch that they took the root from was there for a reason! It's to take the drainage and pollution away from the road surface! Did you *see* the blackness of the grime on the thing? And HFW, advocate of organic growing, eats it.

*bleurgh!*

[bobleponge]

Experimenting is good but some times you know the outcome before it happens....

You know slugs will taste crap...cos otherwise the french would eat them.

I too laughed out loud and agreed heartily.

[di]

Didn't everything else look really scrummy though!The fish dishes at the end had me salivating...or was that Hugh???

[SlugLobber]

I never realised that slugs are dangerous to dogs, cause some serious illness, so i dont think even after many wines ! someone could persude me to try one !

They're dangerous to dogs as they can carry lungworm, Louise. As long as your dogs are wormed regularly, then they'll be fine! Lungworm only affects certain species (donkeys are very prone, too, but horses less so) and I think I'm right in saying humans aren't on the list. However, you could always worm yourself with Pripsin as a precaution. Yummy!

For pure disgust reasons, I won't be trying them. Dirty, dirty Hugh!!

[coreopsis]

I watched the programme but must admit that I missed the bit with the slugs.No regrets.
As for stir fry-looked fine but I tried to imagine giving OH a basket and telling him to "organise" something for the dinner.

[Hilary B]

I am glad I didn't watch this one!
re-lungworm. I don't suppose there would be any risk from cooked slugs (but that isn't enough to persuade me to try eating the disgusting things, I've seen what they eat in the woods!)

[SueA]

I haven't watched H.F.W. for donkey's years since I saw him cooking & eating placenta with a new mum! Yeuch!
The slugs sound disgusting too & no even if I was starving I don't think I could eat them. I saw someone preparing & cooking garden snails on TV last year when I was ill in bed with that nasty winter vomiting thing & that was enough!

[miffy]

Slugs are no more disgusting to me than things like shrimps and whelks etc which are like sea bugs, they could have been tasty, they should have tasted like lettuce the amount they had been eating!!

[piskieinboots]

....they should have tasted like lettuce the amount they had been eating!!

ain't that the truth!!