[pendy]

I love snails - with lots of garlic butter. I love roast rib of beef as well. Every country has some crap food (there is a Macdonalds in Paris) just as they have good food. Hotel food in this country was muck at one time, no two ways about it, Brown Windsor soup (dishwater with an Oxo cube per gallon), grey "roast beef" that tasted of cardboard, and 'orrible cabbage. Hotel/restaurant food now is generally very good, but you do pay for it. The same food in France is, sad to say, just as good and a lot cheaper.

Anyway, we ate snails and larks and such in this country for hundreds of years, and swan was a delicacy at one time.

I wonder who has been feeding Jacques Chirac over here? When I last heard, the food at Gleneagles was superb. Perhaps he brought sandwiches ....