was the first person to eat a snail starving or
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If you like salty things then you would enjoy either of them. Both are a type of salmon that has been dipped in brine, one not allot and the other quite a bit. Lox is the lighter salt content.
Enmos
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If you like salty things then you would enjoy either of them. Both are a type of salmon that has been dipped in brine, one not allot and the other quite a bit. Lox is the lighter salt content.
Is it similar to anchovies ? I hate that, can't stand olives either.
Maybe I'd like Lox though.
They are just so damn tasty !
How could you eat a lovely critter like that?
Probably posts on sciforums.
Enmos
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I can't, I just wanted to fit in.. :bawl:
I enjoy conch as well. It is nothing more than a very large snail living underwater. It has one of the best flavors I've ever enjoyed when eating snails.
I wouldn't eat that one, now that I know him.
Actually, I think I went to school with him.
Looked like him anyway.
Enmos
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You are even crazier than I am.. lol
Report from the Association of Snails:
Do not under any circumstance eat snails.
You may feel well for many years afterwards
but then immediately die.
If you are going to eat snails which you catch yourself you must starve them before eating, to empty their stomachs.
If you are going to use tinned snails, soak them in milk for a few hours or they will be too tough.
I use vietnamese apple snails which I buy from an asian supermarket and make an excellent curried soup, (like tinned snails soak them in milk for a few hours).
African snails are a lot larger than the snails predominantly used in Europe, but they come dried and attached to a big stick, you can buy them if you look hard enough.
escargot, good source of protein, no fat...
My own snail dish is...
Bon Appetite
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Snails are delicious my friend! I eat them when I get bored of the three others (beef, chicken, and pork).
I always wondered about the origins of some of our food. Some things just don't seem like they'd be something you'd want to eat. Who was the first person to make cheese, or brew beer or soy sauce? Maybe kitchen mistakes, that desperation forces someone to try?
cheese pre-dates known history.
I think you are correct that it is a combination of mistakes and circumstances that bring's new thing into circulation..
Circumstances...
When I was in Italy I saw how they made a drink called limoncello (really nice after a meal), the way I saw it being made was in a bucket outside with simply lemons,sugar,water and alcohol...left strained and served..
I presume that this was discovered by accident with discarded lemons.
a modern way of making it ..
I do a lot of experimentation when i'm working and they don't always work (stuffed cauliflower florets my biggest disaster) but I think thats the beauty of trying new things is the expectation, I can quite happily work on my own for hours trying new things...
A chef i worked with in Italy swore by 'watermelon and onion salad', I kept making excuses as to why he couldn't put it on the salad bar, when I relented and tasted it...
uke: it tasted like 'sweet onion water'..one of the thing about cooking, not many people get to sample the mistakes..I saw an item once about a drive through in north america where they served a type of rat meat and other critters....and the people loved it
Goat is a good meat to eat tastes like a cross between mutton and beef..but the smell when you first start cooking is quite overpowering if you can get past that it's a realy tasty meat which absorbes a lot of flavour and melts in the mouth (quite faty though)
Beer was first brewed has a curing meat ingrediant
'Fugu' requires a cerificate to allow you legaly to prepare it and I think the course/training in the preperation of this one Item takes 5 years..
Also Acorns we part of 'the dark ages diet' and are cooked in a pit in the ground rested in sand, covered with sand to make an air tight seal then a fire placed over the sand....
there are many techniques of turning toxic foods into an edible substance (baking,washing) yet most of these are forgotten and the foods have become obselete
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Snails have been farmed for a very long time.
If you know anyone with the surname Dudman, they had an ancestor
who was chief honcho in local snail production.
An old word for snail was Hodmandod, hence a Dod-man was a person who looked after them. Easy job or what?
The Irish word for snail is Seilide, and they must have had snail farmers too because it is an Irish surname. In fact, one of Irelands greatest athletes was Sean O' Selide, a long distance runner. He combined the running with his chosen profession of embalmer, and was the first person in Ireland to use formaldehyde for this purpose. He also pioneered light running clothes, which was not thought of as important at the time.
http://www.newrycitymarathon.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=262&sid=021863b60236a4d3be9ccdfab985feca
If you know anyone with the surname Dudman, they had an ancestor
who was chief honcho in local snail production.
An old word for snail was Hodmandod, hence a Dod-man was a person who looked after them. Easy job or what?
The Irish word for snail is Seilide, and they must have had snail farmers too because it is an Irish surname. In fact, one of Irelands greatest athletes was Sean O' Selide, a long distance runner. He combined the running with his chosen profession of embalmer, and was the first person in Ireland to use formaldehyde for this purpose. He also pioneered light running clothes, which was not thought of as important at the time.
http://www.newrycitymarathon.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=262&sid=021863b60236a4d3be9ccdfab985feca
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