Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 832000)

If you are starving, you will eat anything.

Early in his career my son spent several weeks in China and was amazed at the strange things they ate.

He rationalised it by adding that the population is enormous and food resources are limited - hence they eat anything that provides nourishment.

He related an incident in a university canteen where the two men on the adjacent table were served with dishes with lids. They lifted the lids and rapidly put the contents in their mouths because whatever it was they were eating was still alive and wriggling.
They then crunched, and spit out what looked like the legs of something.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 831697)

In order to be sure that garden snails are fit to eat you have to be sure that their guts are free of nasty stuff - which involves feeding them in a controlled environment for several days before - which sort of defeats the object of 'free food'

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 832076)

:eek::eek::eek:Bloody hell Margaret I've just had mi tea:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 832161)

What was that? Raw liver ;)

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 831777)

Folk must be dammed hard up for sumat to eaght if thur ten to chompin on slugs an snails, ad suuner ev dry bread an water.
Retlaw

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 833440)

Thing with snails is that most of the meat you eat is actually their entrails I think - lot of work - you have to keep em alive in a container for 7 days, wash them at least once a day and clean them out every day before putting them in the fridge which makes them go in their shells. Then you kill them by dropping them in boiling water - boil for up to 1 hour to prepare them to eat! Lot of effort for not much return really.

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 833437)

Ha ha ha - just call me desperate dan! Man! Seriously when I buy liver I eat a bit of it raw as it's supposed to have lots of iron in it and it tastes quite good raw but only in small amounts!

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 833440)

Thing with snails is that most of the meat you eat is actually their entrails I think - lot of work - you have to keep em alive in a container for 7 days, wash them at least once a day and clean them out every day before putting them in the fridge which makes them go in their shells. Then you kill them by dropping them in boiling water - boil for up to 1 hour to prepare them to eat! Lot of effort for not much return really.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 833512)

Sounds like you've had plenty of practice:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 833476)

Well in that case to eat them you have to be addicted to them like the funny folk over the channel. :p:hidewall:

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 835717)

No Spuggie I've never eaten a dirty snail in all my life! I suppose you can buy them in jars in some delicatessens somewhere in this country. :130:

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 835745)

Pass never been looking for them. Mussels welks cockels winkles are as far as I would go.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 836180)

I draw a line after shrimps and cockles, and now I can't even have them either:(