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ModernMaskil
01-28-2019, 09:24 AM
I know they're a delicacy in France and a few Med Islands, but I just saw one on my porch and... ugh.
I don't get how you can eat that. Does it taste fantastic or something?

The Blade
01-28-2019, 06:07 PM
No and I don't wish to.

Ülev
01-28-2019, 06:11 PM
yes, tasty, but when on boiling water they scream
(before vegetarianism)

frankhammer
01-28-2019, 06:18 PM
No but I'd try them at a reputable restaurant.

Essexboy
01-28-2019, 07:31 PM
Not as bad as it looks tbh had them as child dipped in vinegar with cocktail stick.

♥ Lily ♥
01-28-2019, 07:37 PM
No thanks.

Peterski
01-30-2019, 11:34 AM
Yes, when I was in France. They taste like chicken.

Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas
01-30-2019, 11:37 AM
We eat snails in Portugal and it is a quite popular summer snack but they look nothing like the French version.

Papastratosels26
01-30-2019, 01:34 PM
No

Mens-Sarda
01-30-2019, 01:35 PM
We eat snails in Sardinia, usually cooked with tomato sauce, garlic, parsley and chili peppers. They are tasty, It's like eating shellfish. I eat them occasionally. In Italy they usually don't eat them, except few specific areas.

https://primochef.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PI_Lumache_al_sugo.jpg

To eat them you just need an ultra-technological tool :


http://static.leonardo.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/12/stuzzicadenti1-660x350.jpg

Hulu
01-30-2019, 01:40 PM
Yes, with lots of butter and garlic.

coolfrenchguy
01-30-2019, 02:09 PM
yes very long time ago even with butter and gralic it's awfull,like oysters even oysters well drunk at the christmast family banquet are maybe a bit easier to swallow,but escargots(snails) burk it's awfull it's gummy,before i became progressivelly vegan since maybe 15 years, i was not a great fan of sea food i know than jewish in the casheroute don't eat sea food, in facty the first colons in the kibboutz in baba cool area were very closed of the biological agriculture and vegetarism,if iam not completly wrong
i don't know very well the jewish dishes but i have saw many times casher cakes,and i have a friend who is a great fan of "la poutargue" or bottarga in english a judeo-arabic mediterranean food and i know a jewish traitor in paris who made very good bottardas,but it's not really a typical casher food it"s more by extended culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottarga

Kivan
01-30-2019, 02:24 PM
Nop, neither I wish to. It looks gross.

Mens-Sarda
01-30-2019, 04:12 PM
yes very long time ago even with butter and gralic it's awfull,like oysters even oysters well drunk at the christmast family banquet are maybe a bit easier to swallow,but escargots(snails) burk it's awfull it's gummy,before i became progressivelly vegan since maybe 15 years, i was not a great fan of sea food i know than jewish in the casheroute don't eat sea food, in facty the first colons in the kibboutz in baba cool area were very closed of the biological agriculture and vegetarism,if iam not completly wrong
i don't know very well the jewish dishes but i have saw many times casher cakes,and i have a friend who is a great fan of "la poutargue" or bottarga in english a judeo-arabic mediterranean food and i know a jewish traitor in paris who made very good bottardas,but it's not really a typical casher food it"s more by extended culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottarga

Bottarga has nothing to do with Jews or Arabs, it was known since Hellenistic Egypt, and during Roman / Byzantine age. The name comes from the Egyptian/Hellenistic Greek "Butàrichon" (dried fish). It's well known also here in Sardinia as "buttàriga in Sardinian language and "bottarga" in Italian, it's considered a gourmet thing (1kg can also cost 250€). It's basically composed by dried fish eggs contained into their own sack. It's usually used to flavour pasta dishes.

https://primochef.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bottarga_di_muggine.jpg

https://images.lacucinaitaliana.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/10013651/Spaghetti-con-la-bottarga1.jpg

rein
01-31-2019, 04:22 PM
Yes.