Anyone Grow Mayhaw ?

[Nyboy]

Remember reading during siege of Leningrad not one dog, cat or rat could be found in the city. When people get hungry enough they will eat anything . Look at the Donner wagon train.

 

[britesea]

Well I'm just a backwoods redneck, but I've had escargot. Kinda chewy, but yummy. Doesn't make me want to scoop up garden snails for an afternoon snack though.

My mother is French; and one year, her father came to visit us in California. He was very excited at the number and size of snails in the back yard and went out and caught a nice number of them. He put them in a pail with some cornmeal (you have to clean out their innards before you eat them, to make sure nothing toxic is in there); He put a board on top and everyone went to bed.
In the morning, My mother walked into the kitchen to find that the snails had managed to shove the board aside enough to make a jailbreak: there were snails on every surface of the kitchen, including the walls and ceiling (and a few broken shells on the floor where their traction had failed on the ceiling)
Needless to say, she was.... less than pleased.

 

[Nyboy]

Who cleaned it up? I couldn't believe the size of snails in southern California!!

 

[baymule]

My mother is French; and one year, her father came to visit us in California. He was very excited at the number and size of snails in the back yard and went out and caught a nice number of them. He put them in a pail with some cornmeal (you have to clean out their innards before you eat them, to make sure nothing toxic is in there); He put a board on top and everyone went to bed.
In the morning, My mother walked into the kitchen to find that the snails had managed to shove the board aside enough to make a jailbreak: there were snails on every surface of the kitchen, including the walls and ceiling (and a few broken shells on the floor where their traction had failed on the ceiling)
Needless to say, she was.... less than pleased.

Well, don't stop there! Did her father round up the wayward snails and cook them?

 

[britesea]

LOL, My brother and I were the ones that cleaned up the mess, while mom yelled at her father in French. I think she was telling him to absolutely never do that again. I didn't get to taste snails until I was in my late teens. They sort of reminded me of clams, but garlicky.