Escargot

"Brian Reay" wrote in message news:q5g648$fc8$***@dont-email.me...

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).

I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his London
garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not less
edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

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Eww the slime makes me shudder.

Brian Reay

2019-03-03 09:49:26 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his London
garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not less
edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)
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Eww the slime makes me shudder.

There is no slime when they are cooked.

True, if you collect / prepare them there would be some.

I don't know how ready they are to cook when you buy them. Watching the
Ramsey video, it takes a few days of preparation (washing and feeding on
known food- carrots) before you can cook them.

I doubt I will ever cook them myself but I will certainly look for them
on a menu.

Oddly, I'm not a great fan a shell fish. Crab, lobster yes, prawns,
scallops, yes. But the others, in general, I would avoid.

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Ophelia

2019-03-03 14:10:18 UTC

Post by Brian Reay
I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his London
garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not less
edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)
==
Eww the slime makes me shudder.

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Malcolm Loades

2019-03-03 14:36:57 UTC

How were they served?

If it was the 'usual' way in garlic butter could you actually detect an
identifiable snail flavour. I find them simply a texture.

Reminds me of my son, aged 5 or 6 at the time, who tried one of my
snails in garlic butter when we were in France. "Do you like that I
asked?" "I like the snail juice" was his reply!

Malcolm

PS Google "Miners' Arms in Priddy" and you can read how this pub used
to serve up 4,000 local Mendip snails a year in the 60's

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Brian Reay

2019-03-04 14:12:40 UTC

Post by Malcolm Loades
How were they served?
If it was the 'usual' way in garlic butter could you actually detect an
identifiable snail flavour. I find them simply a texture.

With garlic and parsley.

I can't pretend the 'meat' had any definite taste. They weren't
'rubbery', which is what I expected.

Certainly no 'slime' but some nice liquid they'd been cooked in (I
assume). I didn't count how many were in the serving but, at an
estimate, around 10.

John S.Robinson

2019-03-08 00:09:52 UTC

Post by Malcolm Loades
PS Google "Miners' Arms in Priddy" and you can read how this pub used
to serve up 4,000 local Mendip snails a year in the 60's

I don't remember the snails, or indeed anything else about the food,
perhaps because I recall proper cider there at 7p a pint when I was at
university in Bristol.

Apropos snails, I first ate them on a family trip to France when aged
about nine and have enjoyed them ever since, though as someone else
said perhaps more for the beurre d'escargot than the actual mollusc.

My father had cooked and eaten English garden snails at some time in
his youth, I guess in the 1920s, and said they were delicious but
never repeated the treat for me.

Cheers,
John

Keema's Nan

2019-03-08 09:32:52 UTC

PS Google "Miners' Arms in Priddy" and you can read how this pub used
to serve up 4,000 local Mendip snails a year in the 60's

I don't remember the snails, or indeed anything else about the food,
perhaps because I recall proper cider there at 7p a pint when I was at
university in Bristol.
Apropos snails, I first ate them on a family trip to France when aged
about nine and have enjoyed them ever since, though as someone else
said perhaps more for the beurre d'escargot than the actual mollusc.
My father had cooked and eaten English garden snails at some time in
his youth, I guess in the 1920s, and said they were delicious but
never repeated the treat for me.
Cheers,
John

Somerset cider seems to be of a widely variable potency and quality. I have
drunk stuff which was marketed as the genuine rough cloudy cider, and was
basically more like apple vinegar; and other makes which was so strong that
after 3 pints it was difficult not to walk into the door on the way out.

Farmhouse cider making seems to be a declining art which has been taken over
by the multinationals with their bland ultra fizzy chemically enhanced hooray
henry fruit versions.

graham

2019-03-08 21:18:53 UTC

PS Google "Miners' Arms in Priddy" and you can read how this pub used
to serve up 4,000 local Mendip snails a year in the 60's

I don't remember the snails, or indeed anything else about the food,
perhaps because I recall proper cider there at 7p a pint when I was at
university in Bristol.
Apropos snails, I first ate them on a family trip to France when aged
about nine and have enjoyed them ever since, though as someone else
said perhaps more for the beurre d'escargot than the actual mollusc.
My father had cooked and eaten English garden snails at some time in
his youth, I guess in the 1920s, and said they were delicious but
never repeated the treat for me.
Cheers,
John

Somerset cider seems to be of a widely variable potency and quality. I have
drunk stuff which was marketed as the genuine rough cloudy cider, and was
basically more like apple vinegar; and other makes which was so strong that
after 3 pints it was difficult not to walk into the door on the way out.
Farmhouse cider making seems to be a declining art which has been taken over
by the multinationals with their bland ultra fizzy chemically enhanced hooray
henry fruit versions.

Aspall Cyder is superb and predictable in quality. However, it has just
been sold to Molson-Coors:-(

Keema's Nan

2019-03-10 17:16:57 UTC

PS Google "Miners' Arms in Priddy" and you can read how this pub used
to serve up 4,000 local Mendip snails a year in the 60's

I don't remember the snails, or indeed anything else about the food,
perhaps because I recall proper cider there at 7p a pint when I was at
university in Bristol.
Apropos snails, I first ate them on a family trip to France when aged
about nine and have enjoyed them ever since, though as someone else
said perhaps more for the beurre d'escargot than the actual mollusc.
My father had cooked and eaten English garden snails at some time in
his youth, I guess in the 1920s, and said they were delicious but
never repeated the treat for me.
Cheers,
John

Somerset cider seems to be of a widely variable potency and quality. I have
drunk stuff which was marketed as the genuine rough cloudy cider, and was
basically more like apple vinegar; and other makes which was so strong that
after 3 pints it was difficult not to walk into the door on the way out.
Farmhouse cider making seems to be a declining art which has been taken over
by the multinationals with their bland ultra fizzy chemically enhanced hooray
henry fruit versions.

Aspall Cyder is superb and predictable in quality. However, it has just
been sold to Molson-Coors:-(

That’s shame. I have bought bottles of it in the past.

I like Henry Westons as well.

Brian Reay

2019-03-08 10:41:45 UTC

Post by Malcolm Loades
PS Google "Miners' Arms in Priddy" and you can read how this pub used
to serve up 4,000 local Mendip snails a year in the 60's

I don't remember the snails, or indeed anything else about the food,
perhaps because I recall proper cider there at 7p a pint when I was at
university in Bristol.
Apropos snails, I first ate them on a family trip to France when aged
about nine and have enjoyed them ever since, though as someone else
said perhaps more for the beurre d'escargot than the actual mollusc.
My father had cooked and eaten English garden snails at some time in
his youth, I guess in the 1920s, and said they were delicious but
never repeated the treat for me.

There is a good video by Gordon Ramsey (who I normally can't stand) on
YouTube, in which he catches, prepares, cooks, and eats English garden
snails.

They are a different variety to those eaten in France, he seem to think
ours are better!

Kev

2019-03-03 22:30:55 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his London
garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not less
edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.

When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P

Ophelia

2019-03-04 16:21:56 UTC

Brian Reay

2019-03-04 19:21:30 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
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ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

Ophelia

2019-03-04 21:15:01 UTC

Post by Brian Reay
I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

==

lol yes. Well those days are long gone thank goodness :)

s***@gowanhill.com

2019-03-05 20:10:20 UTC

Post by Ophelia

Post by Brian Reay
It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

lol yes. Well those days are long gone thank goodness :)

If Alzheimer's strikes you may find yourself trying to eat all sorts of things again.

Apparently ice is quite popular, but patients trying to eat their hearing aids is not unknown.

Owain

Ophelia

2019-03-05 21:08:30 UTC

Post by Ophelia

Post by Brian Reay
It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

lol yes. Well those days are long gone thank goodness :)

If Alzheimer's strikes you may find yourself trying to eat all sorts of
things again.

Apparently ice is quite popular, but patients trying to eat their hearing
aids is not unknown.

Owain

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Well, it hasn't hit me so far, but I will bear that in mind:)

Keema's Nan

2019-03-05 21:36:31 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

No, maybe not - but that still doesn’t tempt me to try snails.

I think the whole idea of what I was eating would make me gag. It would be
the same with eating insects or caterpillars.

I have survived without them for many decades, and am not about to try them
now.

Brian Reay

2019-03-06 12:05:49 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

No, maybe not - but that still doesn’t tempt me to try snails.
I think the whole idea of what I was eating would make me gag. It would be
the same with eating insects or caterpillars.
I have survived without them for many decades, and am not about to try them
now.

I'm not tempted try insects etc but there are 'strange' foods to
British/English people that others eat and regard as perfectly normal,
if not special treats. In Jordan, I tried Sheep brain, a bit like pate.
People probably wouldn't eat goat here but I've tried it in both Jordan
and Pakistan. Also Horse in France. I enjoyed the goat, the horse was
nothing special.

graham

2019-03-06 18:00:34 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

No, maybe not - but that still doesn’t tempt me to try snails.
I think the whole idea of what I was eating would make me gag. It would be
the same with eating insects or caterpillars.
I have survived without them for many decades, and am not about to try them
now.

45 years ago I lived in Australia and sheep's brains were readily
available in the supermarkets. I would blanch them, then put them in
small bowls with garlic butter and pop them under the grill. My late
F-I-L raved about them done this way.
In those days, one could buy pureéd brains in those little Heinz baby
food jars. So we made are own for our son.

Malcolm Loades

2019-03-06 18:23:53 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

No, maybe not - but that still doesn’t tempt me to try snails.
I think the whole idea of what I was eating would make me gag. It would be
the same with eating insects or caterpillars.
I have survived without them for many decades, and am not about to try them
now.

From my blog, some Zimbabwean pre-dinner nibles
http://afoodiediary.com/pre-dinner-nibbles/

Malcolm

Keema's Nan

2019-03-06 21:21:57 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit
like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden
and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

No, maybe not - but that still doesn’t tempt me to try snails.
I think the whole idea of what I was eating would make me gag. It would be
the same with eating insects or caterpillars.
I have survived without them for many decades, and am not about to try them
now.

From my blog, some Zimbabwean pre-dinner nibles
http://afoodiediary.com/pre-dinner-nibbles/
Malcolm

Sorry, but no.

I couldn’t face eating any of that selection. Just looking at them makes me
shudder at the thought.

I’m sure they are full of protein, but I’m too squeamish.

Kev

2019-03-07 09:25:09 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

No, maybe not - but that still doesn’t tempt me to try snails.
I think the whole idea of what I was eating would make me gag. It would be
the same with eating insects or caterpillars.
I have survived without them for many decades, and am not about to try them
now.

From my blog, some Zimbabwean pre-dinner nibles
http://afoodiediary.com/pre-dinner-nibbles/
Malcolm

Sorry, but no.
I couldn’t face eating any of that selection. Just looking at them makes me
shudder at the thought.
I’m sure they are full of protein, but I’m too squeamish.

I think I would have a go , but alas I have achalasia, which makes
swallowing difficult - so I'd have a problem with all the crispy chitin!

My lad holidayed in Japan and has a video of himself eating a tuna eye
in the fish market - a delicacy apparently - I was unaccountably proud
of his willingness to try!

Keema's Nan

2019-03-07 09:43:20 UTC

I tried Escargot for the first time on Friday. What a I have been
missing! Now the challenge is the get Senior Management to try them
(they seem to be a definite red line for her).
I even ventured onto YouTube where Gordon Ramsey (one of my least
favourite TV chefs) collects, prepares, and cooks snails from his
London garden. It seems English Snails are a different type but not
less edible. (No, I've not tried them yet.)

Not a fan myself - always found them too chewy for my taste - a bit
like
whelks.
When my son was a toddler, I remember coming up to him in the garden
and
finding a crushed shell in his mitt and slime all round his mouth - he
didn't seem to come to any harm from it :P
==
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is best not to think about what (your) children may have eaten as
toddlers as they played in the garden etc. ;-)

No, maybe not - but that still doesn’t tempt me to try snails.
I think the whole idea of what I was eating would make me gag. It
would be
the same with eating insects or caterpillars.
I have survived without them for many decades, and am not about to try
them
now.

From my blog, some Zimbabwean pre-dinner nibles
http://afoodiediary.com/pre-dinner-nibbles/
Malcolm

Sorry, but no.
I couldn’t face eating any of that selection. Just looking at them makes me
shudder at the thought.
I’m sure they are full of protein, but I’m too squeamish.

I think I would have a go , but alas I have achalasia, which makes
swallowing difficult - so I'd have a problem with all the crispy chitin!
My lad holidayed in Japan and has a video of himself eating a tuna eye
in the fish market - a delicacy apparently - I was unaccountably proud
of his willingness to try!

Yes, I think my squeamishness is down to psychology. Maybe I should try mind
over matter exercises?

I don’t think a fish eye would be a good start for me, because I have
difficulty with even cod’s roe. Its the feeling of slimey bits in my mouth
that makes me want to spit them out.

I wonder if I was force fed tapioca as an infant?

Kev

2019-03-07 10:34:30 UTC