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JonathanD
06-01-2011, 14:57
Excellent!!!!
fredwilde
06-01-2011, 19:29
Couple of questions. Are these your common garden snail? Also, does cooking kill any potential parasites?
Keith_Beef
04-04-2012, 23:22
One traditional way to "clean out" snails is to leave them to eat a diet of nettles for at least 24 hours.
You must cook them fully before eating them; I remember several stories of teenage boys in Australia eating raw slugs or snails for a dare, and contracting parasitic meningitis.
The Wikipedia articles below confirms my memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_snail#Snails_as_human_foo d
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis
Although there is less risk of catching the worm in Europe, the risk may well rise in the future, and is already a problem in much of S.E. Asia and parts of the southern USA.
K.
MartiniDave
05-04-2012, 08:39
I find they take ages to get caught in my snares!