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The only time I've come across frog's legs was on a snack menu in a Belgian bar. They went down well with too much good local beer and yes, they do taste like chicken.

Snails seem to be quite common in Charente both in restaurants and markets. There's one particular truck stop where there are invariably snails along with oysters and various other shellfish amongst many other things on the cold buffet. Scrumptious and very cheap!

I've also got a jar of something called Escargouillette which I guess is the French answer to Marmite, being a snail spread containing butter, shallots, garlic and cognac. The idea is to spread it on toast which should then be heated in a warm oven - something of an acquired taste perhaps...

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saddie wrote the following post at 13/03/2006 22:11:

I have sometimes wondered who or how certain things came to be eaten. For example whelks ,lobsters,snails, frogs. I can accept that people may have ben hungry but who might have thought that shrimps may be edible , or mussels?

Or, while we are at it, decided to try Crab poo as a wound healer

or  invented Foie Gras ?

 

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[quote user="Owens88"]

saddie wrote the following post at 13/03/2006 22:11:

I have sometimes wondered who or how

certain things came to be eaten. For example whelks ,lobsters,snails,

frogs. I can accept that people may have ben hungry but who might have

thought that shrimps may be edible , or mussels?

Or, while we are at it, decided to try Crab poo as a wound healer

or  invented Foie Gras ?

 

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Foie gras, I believe, was a discovery of the Egyptians, who took an

annual harvest of Nile geese that had gorged themselves beyond flight

on figs. The Romans then practiced the production of foie gras on

domestic fowl - they gorged a fair number of animals on the same basis,

being responsible for the eating of overgrown dormice and ortolan. The

eating of ortolan has been illegal in France for years, but my parents

were served it in a French household in the 1980s and I'm sure it still

goes on in some corners of France.

What's all this about crab poo though???

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