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Just got a Christmas present in from France........an entire case of canned snails...........
No one has mentioned those delightful little Scottish snails called periwinkles. I used to love those......saute in the shell in garlic butter and use toothpicks to pull them out. Takes patience to eat many, but worth it.
I recall that years ago I found some in a seafood shop and brought a pound home. the wife saw the package and opened it went "ewwww" and put it back in the fridge without closing it up properly. The next afternoon I was going to prepare them for a mid afternoon snack.......glass of wine, bowl full of periwinkles, a bit of brie, and a good book can be all the company I need for an afternoon. That plan was spoiled when the wife opened the fridge to prepare breakfast and found snails crawling (so snails crawl?) all over the interior of the fridge. We spent the morning cleaning the fridge and she would never let me bring them home again...............
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I like them a lot. I used to have them often when I was a kid (seriously... how bizarre is that???) and then didn't have them again for many years, until recently.
Although I like the escargots a lot... I love dunking the bread in the leftover garlic butter even better!
Ah, (peri)winkles. Used to collect them as a child on the southern shores of England way before I was introduced to escargots. The larger version of them here in the Caribbean - "whelks", pronounced "whilks" are also a popular local dish as in "whilks 'n' rice". And the real biggies, land crabs as they're called, are also popular. They're collected and then "purged" as in feeding them cornmeal to clean them from the inside out. Yum.
OMG..my lips swelled up and I had trouble breathing...but I love um...had a couple glasses of white wine and ahhhhh better. That was in 1980.
I don't think I will try them again.
HW
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