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Runs With Beer
10-15-2008, 07:09 PM
Where I live there are old shell mounds which are mostly snails.Has anyone tried these, Seems like the natives ate quite a few of the snails.

Rick
10-15-2008, 07:11 PM
There's a reason for that. I posted this not too long ago. Snail slime contains an amino acid that behaves like adrenalin. The boost is immediate. Rabbit pellets are rich in wild chamomile and are a natural sedative if the snail rush is a little too much. Just lick one.

Runs With Beer
10-15-2008, 07:15 PM
Thanks Rick, I did a search but didnt find any info. How would you cook the snails?

crashdive123
10-15-2008, 07:16 PM
Boiled. A little butter and garlic. Yummy. ......or roasted.

Rick
10-15-2008, 07:39 PM
Here's an article with everything you need to know about cooking snails. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/05/05/urbananimal.DTL

Gray Wolf
10-15-2008, 07:45 PM
See I have to disagree with you crash, A LOT of butter... :D

Runs With Beer
10-15-2008, 07:49 PM
I dont know if it makes a differance but these I am talking about are water snails not garden snails.

Fletcher
10-15-2008, 09:48 PM
water snails are less slimy but taste the same as the garden ones

Edz
10-16-2008, 09:05 PM
Thanks Rick, I did a search but didnt find any info. How would you cook the snails?

Definitely cook them! Snails can carry parasites that can effect humans.
It also helps to put them in rice water (water than has been used to strain white rice) or in a pot of water with some cornmeal. This will allow them to purge themselves on their crap.

edz

Runs With Beer
10-17-2008, 08:51 PM
I would have to agree with you edz, I do this with mussels, But I use salt water to clean them out and it makes all the diff. In the way they taste. Thanks for the info.

Rick
10-18-2008, 09:25 AM
I don't eat filter feeders like muscles, oysters and clams (okay, I will eat clams fried but that's it). They are really susceptible to pollution problems and you get to eat that. Yuck!! Here's a current article on what can happen.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/70_people_report_illness_after.html

Runs With Beer
10-18-2008, 02:38 PM
I saw the story on the clams, Food poisining sucks, But I lave to eat them.