Escargot

[JerryB]

Hi folks,

This time of year we seem to be eating more than normal.

Therefore, just curious about how many have eaten escargot; and, if you have, would you eat it again?

I've had it a number of times & quite like it.

We had a very good French restaurant here that closed a few years ago. Recently, a new French restaurant has opened that serves it; so I'll have to go over there & try theirs.

Jerry Baumchen

PS) And I recently I watched a PBS program on a company on Long Island, NY that is commercially raising them for restaurants. Apparently, the only company in the USA that is doing so.

[UtahPete]

Yes, I had it once in Oakland. Tasted fine. Not worth the price, but fortunately it was on the corporate expense account. Wouldn't pay for it otherwise. Rather have oysters...!

[UtahPete]

Hi folks, just curious about how many have eaten escargot...I recently I watched a PBS program on a company on Long Island, NY that is commercially raising them for restaurants. Apparently, the only company in the USA that is doing so.

I understand business is slow

[Chupaca]

Have eaten an assortment of strange items but never escargot. It may be because I had a best friend that ate snails, the garden variety, and carried a salt shaker with him for snacking on them. The problem was we were paid for catching them and getting them out of the garden. So don't know if was that it was not a nice sight or that he was eating our profits.... others in the family did when in France anyway....

[canamjhb]

Love it. My wife never tried it until last year. Convinced her to try a bite and she wound up eating half my order.....! Should have just kept my suggestions to myself. I have learned though. I will not try to convince her to try oysters on the half shell. Keeping those for myself. Yummmmm....... Jim

[ARtraveler]

IMO...Escargot is good. Done right, worth the price that the expensive restaurants charge. Our favorite place to get is, sadly, no longer in business.

I also like Oysters Rockefeller and Calamari (squid).

[Peter Aawen]

I understand business is slow

Only cos they're slimy little suckers! It's hard to pick them up & even harder to hold 'em still & get the steaks out!!

[DGoebel]

Yes, at least once or twice a year since I was a child, growing up in France in the late 50's, then back in the states with our french Au Pair, before my mother learned to prepare them herself.
But really, they aren't they really just a Garlic Butter Transport System... Best I've had in recent memory were in a lovely place in Alaska called the Double Musky Inn, they're somewhere in this pic of appetizers we shared with friends.
AK Double Musky Inn Apps.jpg

[ARtraveler]

Yes, at least once or twice a year since I was a child, growing up in France in the late 50's, then back in the states with our french Au Pair, before my mother learned to prepare them herself.
But really, they aren't they really just a Garlic Butter Transport System... Best I've had in recent memory were in a lovely place in Alaska called the Double Musky Inn, they're somewhere in this pic of appetizers we shared with friends.
AK Double Musky Inn Apps.jpg

I agree on Double Musky Inn in Girdwood. They are a great place to visit--if you can get in.

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

My preference isn't French food ( the very rich kind ) in general, however Snails in Garlic butter ( ie Escargot ), is very nice..... When I moved to Vermont in 76, one of my dogs was a Scots terrier ( the black one ), and She used to forage in the leaves for snails. She didn't bother with the cooking in garlic butter though, she would just crack open their shells and down the hatch they went ……. strange dog ...…….Mike

[Blue Star]

Hi folks,

This time of year we seem to be eating more than normal.

Therefore, just curious about how many have eaten escargot; and, if you have, would you eat it again?

I've had it a number of times & quite like it.

We had a very good French restaurant here that closed a few years ago. Recently, a new French restaurant has opened that serves it; so I'll have to go over there & try theirs.

Jerry Baumchen

PS) And I recently I watched a PBS program on a company on Long Island, NY that is commercially raising them for restaurants. Apparently, the only company in the USA that is doing so.

I love Escargot, and is one of my favorite appetizers.

Funny but true story.

When I was in the tenth grade my science teacher held up a package tube that had the shells on top, and a small can of escargot at the bottom. Told the class he would bump up whatever grade we got on the upcoming test if we ate one of the snails out of the shell. The girls yelled yuck, the boys said no way. I raised my hand and said what would I get if I eat the whole can? He said I would get two grade bumps, so I said okay. After I finished the can, everyone was making faces, the teacher said he has never had anyone take him up on this offer. I replied I don't doubt it, as these were the worst I've ever had, and have tasted better. The look on his face was priceless, and I heard that was the last time he did this stunt.


Funnier part was I answered all the questions right, and earned the A anyway.

[Bob Denman]

Snails?

Where I'm from: we use that stuff as bait...

[SPECTACUALR SPIDERMAN]

only step on snails, my father in law loves them

[AnthonyG]

Snails - The gooey booger of Earth!

[Bob Denman]

Snails - The gooey booger of Earth!

When you put it THAT way:

[wyliec]

I like them; but, then I see them crawling up the side of the house, and wonder why I like them. When I eat sushi, I love unagi; of course that's the only fish that can't be served raw. Hmmmmm, hmmmmmm good.

[Little Blue]

Sorry, not an interest for my taste.

[azprince]

you have Garlic and Butter, what's not to like? Your shoes would taste good.

[Bob Denman]

you have Garlic and Butter, what's not to like? Your shoes would taste good.

I've always thought that with enough bacon and hot sauce: I could eat a fried Moose Turd!

[UtahPete]

Only cos they're slimy little suckers! It's hard to pick them up & even harder to hold 'em still & get the steaks out!!

I was thinking more along the lines of "moving at a snail's pace"

[Bob Denman]

What did the snail say, as he rode on the back of the turtle?

"WHEEEEEEE!!!"

WHEE2.jpg

[johnsimion]

I like escargot. Usually only see or get it on a cruise ship, though. Probably a good thing, because they always serve it drowning in butter. It should come with a certificate good for a free heart bypass surgery.
I have always liked "odd" foods. Growing up in my family, we ate all kinds of German foods but also a wide variety of international foods my Mom liked to cook. We also "supplemented" our diet with squirrel, rabbit, and all sorts of fishes that people would turn up their noses at -- including carp and gar. The latter fishes have an undeservedly bad reputation; the taste all depends on whether they come out of clear or muddy water and whether you clean and prepare them promptly.
A few months ago I was eating barbecued cuy (guinea pig) in Peru. It's a delicacy there and actually pretty good. My Filipina wife of 32 years turned up her nose at the cuy, which was pretty funny for a woman from a country where they eat balut (boiled embryonic duck eggs), bagoong (fermented shrimp paste), dinuguang (blood soup), kawaling (tripe soup) and various other delicacies. Personally I like all that stuff except the bagoong (fermented shrimp paste). The wife loves it, especially on unripe (green) mango. Bagoong is okay as one ingredient in kare kare (stew), but otherwise I never grew fond of it. She would like everyone to know that they do NOT eat dog in the Philippines, at least not that she has never ever heard of. Perhaps in some remote provinces, not in Manila where she's from.

[wyliec]

I like escargot. Usually only see or get it on a cruise ship, though. Probably a good thing, because they always serve it drowning in butter. It should come with a certificate good for a free heart bypass surgery.
I have always liked "odd" foods. Growing up in my family, we ate all kinds of German foods but also a wide variety of international foods my Mom liked to cook. We also "supplemented" our diet with squirrel, rabbit, and all sorts of fishes that people would turn up their noses at -- including carp and gar. The latter fishes have an undeservedly bad reputation; the taste all depends on whether they come out of clear or muddy water and whether you clean and prepare them promptly.
A few months ago I was eating barbecued cuy (guinea pig) in Peru. It's a delicacy there and actually pretty good. My Filipina wife of 32 years turned up her nose at the cuy, which was pretty funny for a woman from a country where they eat balut (boiled embryonic duck eggs), bagoong (fermented shrimp paste), dinuguang (blood soup), kawaling (tripe soup) and various other delicacies. Personally I like all that stuff except the bagoong (fermented shrimp paste). The wife loves it, especially on unripe (green) mango. Bagoong is okay as one ingredient in kare kare (stew), but otherwise I never grew fond of it. She would like everyone to know that they do NOT eat dog in the Philippines, at least not that she has never ever heard of. Perhaps in some remote provinces, not in Manila where she's from.

I love tripe.

[grumpyoldretiredcop]

I never liked escargot until making it to France during my Navy career. Never found any Stateside that were as good as the French article but I still like them.

[UtahPete]

I like escargot. Usually only see or get it on a cruise ship, though. Probably a good thing, because they always serve it drowning in butter. It should come with a certificate good for a free heart bypass surgery.
I have always liked "odd" foods. Growing up in my family, we ate all kinds of German foods but also a wide variety of international foods my Mom liked to cook. We also "supplemented" our diet with squirrel, rabbit, and all sorts of fishes that people would turn up their noses at -- including carp and gar. The latter fishes have an undeservedly bad reputation; the taste all depends on whether they come out of clear or muddy water and whether you clean and prepare them promptly.
A few months ago I was eating barbecued cuy (guinea pig) in Peru. It's a delicacy there and actually pretty good. My Filipina wife of 32 years turned up her nose at the cuy, which was pretty funny for a woman from a country where they eat balut (boiled embryonic duck eggs), bagoong (fermented shrimp paste), dinuguang (blood soup), kawaling (tripe soup) and various other delicacies. Personally I like all that stuff except the bagoong (fermented shrimp paste). The wife loves it, especially on unripe (green) mango. Bagoong is okay as one ingredient in kare kare (stew), but otherwise I never grew fond of it. She would like everyone to know that they do NOT eat dog in the Philippines, at least not that she has never ever heard of. Perhaps in some remote provinces, not in Manila where she's from.

You forgot the monkey meat on a skewer from sidewalk vendors.