Lived umpteen years in a region of Spain where rabbit and snail paella was their traditional dish. Basically a farm worker would catch a rabbit, collect a few snails and harvest a few handfuls of rice from the fields while he was working, over a fire he'd cook his paella. Goodness knows how the Spanish cope with parasites, although of course the snails would have been cooked which would no doubt kill the parasites.
A Spanish lady taught me how to clean the snails after collecting them from the fields, they put the snails in a box to starve them, then introduce a few lettuce leaves - the process takes about 14 days. I'm afraid I can't cope with eating them. But I do love prawns, which I hear is basically like a snail.
A Spanish lady taught me how to clean the snails after collecting them from the fields, they put the snails in a box to starve them, then introduce a few lettuce leaves - the process takes about 14 days. I'm afraid I can't cope with eating them. But I do love prawns, which I hear is basically like a snail.
Similar to the regime used by the French for their edible snails - basically cleaning the guts before eating them. I never fancied them when living in either country
I do have gardening friends here who collect and "clean" garden snails for the pot. Nothing like prawns in taste or texture!
Slugs and snails are not the only sources of parasites that can get into a chook as she fossicks and forages. We'd have to do an autopsy to establish which ones we have here.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
In fact, the slimy creatures are misunderstood, as only nine of the 44 recognised species of slug in the UK eat garden plants, according to research by the RHS.
I'll have the other 35 recognised species in my garden then please!
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A Spanish lady taught me how to clean the snails after collecting them from the fields, they put the snails in a box to starve them, then introduce a few lettuce leaves - the process takes about 14 days. I'm afraid I can't cope with eating them. But I do love prawns, which I hear is basically like a snail.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Slugs and snails are not the only sources of parasites that can get into a chook as she fossicks and forages. We'd have to do an autopsy to establish which ones we have here.
I love cats and children in my garden, though.
That just leaves the slugs, snails and any mice about.
I really like my chooks and their different characters so it's all just a tad frustrating.
I'll have the other 35 recognised species in my garden then please!