Anyone eat snails?

[DanHoo]

What about garden snails?

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[JohnTak]

I tried them once, I thought they were like sautéed mushrooms.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Never had garden snails but I’ve had snails several times, they are a fine vehicle for garlic butter!

 

[Mark Silver]

Never had garden snails but I’ve had snails several times, they are a fine vehicle for garlic butter!

What he said!

 

[LMichaels]

Yuk.

 

[Andy Kaminski]

I have and I enjoyed it.
Snail sliders soaked in garlic/butter ain’t bad.

They are kinda spendy so I don’t often order them, well that and who knows really how fresh something like those are.
I heard that they are just bagged snails and that they reuse the shells but I’m not sure.

We have sea snails where I’m at that are the size of grapefruits.
I keep thinking that they might taste like conch and I love me a conch salad or fritters.

I’ve been told that the garden variety snails like in those pics are not indigenous to North America and that they were brought over for table fare but escaped.

 

[Rick P]

Love 'em!

 

[Joan]

No wonder I don't get many reply's from the recipes I post. They are not snail recipes.

 

[TimA]

Wouldn’t ever consider trying them

 

[Mark Silver]

Wouldn’t ever consider trying them

As I recall, to me, they taste like tasteless gummy bears or unbreaded calamari coated with a delicious garlic butter sauce.

 

[timothy]

Hard pass.

 

[John Burns]

 

[JohnTak]

I went for an early morning walk in Hawaii, I tripped over what I thought was a big river rock! I thought who the heck put all of these rocks on the path? THEN I figured out that they were snails! After that I didn’t go out in the early morning. Not sure if you can eat those but later I read they eat the paint off of houses!

 

[JohnTak]

What about frog legs? They taste a little like chicken, but chicken is better.

 

[LMichaels]

Taste like fish that fell in dirt and was left there a day or so. Yukkko. Tried them once. I was cured of that curiosity

 

[Joan]

HEY GUYS

Can we let this thread die? It's making me sick

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

I love them! Maybe I’m just a bit more “continental”?

 

[DanHoo]

Monday eve I walked outside around 9pm and the rout of snails near my grills made me think about becoming a Snail Rancher !


( not my pic )

 

[Ed P]

We had a plot of gazanias ("freeway daisys") that attracted snails like this picture. I put some Slug & Snail bait around the border and those snails were piled on 3 and 4 high, wide, and deep. Of course, they were killed by the bait, and talk about stink...disgusting. I can't imagine anyone eating a snail. I got rid of the gazanias because they attracted so many snaills.

Monday eve I walked outside around 9pm and the rout of snails near my grills made me think about becoming a Snail Rancher !


( not my pic )

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[DanHoo]

HEY GUYS

Can we let this thread die? It's making me sick

Nope. Not until you post a recipe