In article , "Michael
Berridge" wrote:

wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

Edible snails are few and far between and only occur in a small number
of protected sites in the South. Normal garden snails are AFAIK, not
edible, even after being fed on bran.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk


The garden snails found here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA are
introduced European snails & perfectly edible, not that hardly anyone
bothers to eat them, indeed the idea of eating snails seems to be regarded
by the majority of Americans as a very peculiar habit of French people, &
generally to be avoided.

But so too, regular ol' tough-hided English garden slugs (introduced
throughout N.A.), and big ol' nightcrawler earthworms, are likewise
perfectly edible if one knows how to prepare them correctly, & is neither
squeemish nor a vegetarian. See Frank R. Howard's cookbook, BEST
WASHINGTON SLUG RECIPES, & see:
http://bertc.com/slug_fritters.htm

Or for EARTHWORM YUMMIES see:
http://bertc.com/natural.htm
http://www.naturewatch.ca/english/wo...l/recipes.html

-paghat the ratgirl

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