OMG I ate snails last night!

[Swoop]

ok, I've kinda got this thing for trying stuff from a menu if I dont recognise what it is.  I've eaten all kindsa crap but have always drawn the line at snails.

Not last night.  Was in an italian restaurant in Den Haag, menu is split between italian and dutch so no help there.......there's ONE starter I couldn't translate so of course I ordered it........6 oven ready snails in garlic butter.  


Eating snails is like chewing the fat off a pork chop.  I cannot describe it any other way.

[Darkfire]

any taste you could make out beside the garlic butter? sounds like fun i might wanna try them when i get older lol

[Fishu]

Once again we learn that one thing: don't order what you dont understand

[Swoop]

Nah that's half the fun.

[Curval]

I used to order the snails just to get the garlic butter..then I would dip my dinner roll into that...mmmmm

The snails I would eat too...two chews and then gulp.  Quickly.  Trying hard not to think about what I was eating.

Then, in a Paris restaurant one of my quick chews had a very unhealthy "crunch" to it.  The waiter said it was sand that sometimes gets into the snails.

Haven't ordered them since.

[Toad]

We always used to get the snails in tomato sauce in Athens. Great appetizer and I always thought they were much better than the more famous "garlic sauce" French style snails.

They were bowl-licking good! Karaoli yahni ? Something like that.

Man.. what good times!

Black and green olives, taramosalata and tzatziki with a basket of fresh Greek bread. Salata horiatiki; saganaki; kolokithakia and kalamarakia.

And I remember wine... lots of wine...

Get drunk, stuff yourself sick and spend about $5.

Then go out for serious partying.

[udet]

squeamish sissies

[skernsk]

Escargot ..... MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm

[Estes]

Originally posted by skernsk
Escargot ..... MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm

Was going to make some of that, but closest thing I could find to it was buckshot. oooh man, did I pay for that! Next morning, I bent over to pet the cat and shot the canary.

[john9001]

i ate sand fleas once , but  thats another (military) story, they didn't taste too bad, looked like pepper on my mashed potatos.

[Kweassa]

You should come to Korea.

 We've got, mini-snails, sea snails, fresh water snails and various assortments of slugs and molluscs for your tasty pleasure

 Except we don't use garlic butter, we usually use chili paste.

[Nash]

On a trip to France I went through the same thing. Almost never knew what I was ordering until it showed up. I started out asking the waiters to explain the choices to me, but the cliche of the rude French waiter was no lie, and I just gave up doing that... opting instead to just taking my chances and picking things that sounded ok. The worst thing I ended up with was a plate of fish egg crepes. Was called something like "lumpy". Heaps and heaps of raw fish eggs wrapped in a crepe. Just disgusting. Escargot? Mmm.. tastey. I'm a very picky eater but even I don't consider those to be all that exotic.

Btw., I can't really blame those French waiter's attitudes. The first day there I accidently ended up using what I finally discovered was a tip tray... as an ashtray. No telling how much bs like that they've witnessed. I even heard some guy call the waiter over by saying "garcon". I thought that was just an exageration - but it really happens. The look on the waiter's face was classic though. One of the most authenticly French things I saw on the entire trip.

[Staga]

I've heard some eat these too

[Rutilant]

Staga..

[Maniac]

Ive djust started to eat sushi, at first you think its so-so then an few dishes of sushi later the damn thing is getting addictive...