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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Brijjy on October 10, 2013, 04:21:59 pm

Title: Snail farming anyone?
Post by: Brijjy on October 10, 2013, 04:21:59 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2450954/Aylesbury-Escargot-Snail-farms-rise-Britain-snail-meat-eggs-latest-food-trend.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2450954/Aylesbury-Escargot-Snail-farms-rise-Britain-snail-meat-eggs-latest-food-trend.html)
Title: Re: Snail farming anyone?
Post by: happygolucky on October 10, 2013, 04:26:50 pm
Yummmm......so what about our beloved slugs? surely they are the same?
Title: Re: Snail farming anyone?
Post by: Bodger on October 10, 2013, 04:42:21 pm
No, slugs can be deadly, they eat all sorts of dead and decaying matter, including dog poop.
Title: Re: Snail farming anyone?
Post by: happygolucky on October 10, 2013, 04:44:39 pm
Yuk....no wonder they are so revolting but surely you can farm those as well....I could be a huge slug farmer ...they also are good for the skin...........
Title: Re: Snail farming anyone?
Post by: bloomer on October 10, 2013, 05:12:39 pm
nope the mighty slug is designed to be inedible the best way to cook with slug is forget to put the slug in!!!
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Post by: Cactus Jack on October 10, 2013, 05:34:31 pm
When it rains over here, people from the villages swarm all over the mountains to gather the 'cargols'
I shall just gather my own.
Never seen a slug here 8)
Title: Re: Snail farming anyone?
Post by: happygolucky on October 10, 2013, 06:47:56 pm
 :thinking: ,,apart from them eating poo they could be OK farmed surely? They are both from the same family except for the shells I am sure they are the same, there has been a lot or research about putting the slime on your skin...............lovely, maybe I should go to bed and let them do their work at night and as for Huge and his cooking tips, what about this :-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/5556313/Eat-slugs-in-tomato-sauce-says-television-chef-Hugh-Fearnley-Whittingstall.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/5556313/Eat-slugs-in-tomato-sauce-says-television-chef-Hugh-Fearnley-Whittingstall.html)
Title: Re: Snail farming anyone?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 10, 2013, 10:48:28 pm
Urghhhh!