With all this rain I’m seeing a lot of the big stripey snails around. Due to some depressing carotid ultrasound numbers I’m severely limiting my diet, and those snails are starting to look pretty tasty. Should be low fat. I’m sure they’ll carry loads of disgusting scary parasites (e.g. rat lungwor…

[image] Ducked: I am actually semi-starving myself currently, but thats for medical reasons not directly connected with snail-eating. Hence the need for a secure container. Nothing more dangerous than a starving Scot.

Make sure that aren’t these type before you starve them, https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/new-zealand/articles/there-are-giant-carnivorous-snails-living-in-new-zealand-and-theyre-terrifying/ Or they may turn on you. Seriously though, my wife’s auntie collects them and cooked them with chilli …

[image] Shaun008: Seriously though, my wife’s auntie collects them and cooked them with chilli :hot_pepper: (she also gets plants and fungus) I’m surprised she doesn’t get boils, too. :woozy_face:

She may have in her teens :slight_smile: But now she’s well past retirement, and if I ask about her boils, she may just boil me in oil :wink:

The problem isn’t parasites so much as the pesticides they soak up. People die from those. I wouldn’t f%$k with it.

[image] Taiwan has highest death rate from cancer in Asia not to mention pesticides Pesticides kill some in east [image] Three dead in Taitung from suspected pesticide poisoning - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Actually I’d say snails is a likely suspect. You absolutely DO NOT eat snails in the wild. You raise them for the purpose. The thing has so much parasite in them, you’d die eating them. Also they tend to bioaccumulate stuff, meaning they could have acquired toxin from their environment. There’s a …

[image] Taiwan_Luthiers: You absolutely DO NOT eat snails in the wild. You raise them for the purpose. The thing has so much parasite in them, you’d die eating them. Also they tend to bioaccumulate stuff, meaning they could have acquired toxin from their environment. I must have read you say …

I don’t know, but I think some Taiwanese (or many??) do eat snails… Also French people eat snails too.

[image] Taiwan_Luthiers: Also French people eat snails too. Famously. Everyone already knows that (it’s something of a stereotype in the UK actually). :roll: Just saying your repeated warnings about this supposed hazard aren’t really necessary, IMO.

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