SNAILS! What's even more gross is that these guys spread meningitis. Eeeeek.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/04/27/bc.giantsnails.ap/index.html

--Christy

[ May 03, 2004: Message edited by: Christy K. ]

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Originally posted by Small Wonder:
Where is the salt when you need it?

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I dunno if you do eat snails in the US, but we sure do in France. When I was a kid, when we were on summer vacation in the mountain, after the storm, we'd go pick snails around. To me it was just like searching for easter eggs. They were pretty and stuff and I never worried about what happened to them until... one day I went down to the garage and realized there was a horrible huge hissing, almost like a cat howling in pain. Then I saw the barrel, with hundreds of snails in it and ten good pounds of salt on them.