Not only a great nature doco, but the music!
Wanna feel old?
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Already do.
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A friend says the reason to eat snails is because you soak them in melted butter. Seems to me you could do that with pieces of bread, without the yuck factor. (I just canāt see myself eating something that is basically a slug with a shell, where you donāt eat the shell. Why not just eat slugs? Ewwwww.)
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I had them when I visited the Netherlands in June/July 1983. Roasted in the shells with garlic butter, they were delicious. And remember - Iām from an urban-midwestern background whose dinners consisted of meat, potatoes, and a vegetable (or corn - isnāt that a grain?). But the scientific person in me, a part that was encouraged growing up, coupled with my natural curiosity, helped me to overcome any qualms. But everyone is different.
Itās amazing how American culture with its wanting to separate from the Old World has gotten us to have a āyuck factorā bred into folks - which later got exploited by game shows. I dunno, the way I see it, everything living gets eaten by something else living, eventually.
To each their own. 
(oh, and bread isnāt meat. snails are meat. big diff in texture there, as well as nutritional value.)
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I dunno if Iāve shared this site or not, but they are AWESOME! @Nightflyer, you might find it especially interesting since thereās a lot of focus on your side of town.
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When I was visiting my (vegan) daughter in NYC, she made sure we ate at all the restaurants she canāt normally afford. This of course included the vegan French restaurant. I was not impressed with the rest of the dinner (too salty), but the escargot were yummy! As you say, the same garlic butter with herbs, but a nice chewy chunk of mushroom instead. French bread to mop up whatever sauce is left in the little divots. Whatās not to like?
ETA: of course, in this case the ābutterā was olive oil, but same difference.
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I am overly-squeamish about food, alas, though I have managed to widen my diet to include more stuff over the years. Just not snails.
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Those look pretty yummy!
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Ok, I have a funny story about this.
My college boyfriend (who later become my second husband) and I loved to go out to restaurants. He took me out to dinner every night for 6 weeks at the start of our relationship. Later, when we had graduated, and he remained in New Orleans while I had moved back to my parentās home in Birmingham, AL, I would return to New Orleans for visits with him. These visits were impossibly romantic and usually involved going out to some fancy restaurants.
One of our favorite restaurants was the most romantic Italian restaurant you ever saw, with long red velvet curtains, an intimate atmosphere, and the owner serenading the guests with violin music while they dined.
I came into town for a visit and we went to this restaurant right away, anticipating a lovely long night in the sheets afterward.
Iād had escargot and liked them; he was icked out, but adventurous enough to be talked into it.
On our drive to his house, his allergies started to really go nuts. His face was blowing up red and he was struggling to breathe. We went to bed and instead of having this great reunion, I was watching him blow his nose and his face balloon up.
We finally went to the campus health center, where we got a real cussing out from the doctor because weād waited so long to come in. Turns out, my boyfriend was going into anaphalactic shock from ā¦ snail allergy.
Later when I married him, I always knew the perfect murder weapon. No one would have suspected.
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See, snails are bad for you. Well, in some cases . . .
Now that I think of it, Iām also icked out by molluscs in general. Clams, mussels, oysters are all things that have not touched my lips. I did get calamari once, because I was alone in a restaurant (conference maybe?) I confused it with Cannelloni or something.
Another restaurant I went to in Seattle served Pacific geoduck. Once the animal was explained to me, I was totally grossed me out.
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I once had clam. It was basically fish-flavored chewing gum.
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Cooked or raw? The calamari I had was deep-fried, so it didnāt bother me. As much.
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I assume cooked. I hope so.
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Yāall aināt gonna like this.
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Opinions are like assholes, though; everyone has one, and many of them just plain stink.
I used to know someone whom i have no doubt would eat fermented shark, as long as it didnāt have any mercury in it.
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