"Dan Logcher" > wrote in message
...
> Ian Hoare wrote:
> > Salut/Hi Musashi,
> >
> >>I've never been able to get past the flavor of butter and garlic to
> >>appreciate it.
> >
> > Agreed, and it is my least favourite way of eating them. Wandering even
> > further OT, the best snails I ever had were the very large marine snails
> > called Conch and found (I've often snorkelled for them) in the
Caribbean.
> > Eaten in fritters, once beaten to a pulp, they're divine. That said (and
> > dragging this kicking and screaming back on topic) I've some some pretty
> > good Conch Rotis in one of the Windward Isles.
>
> When I visited my parents on their sail boat in Exuma Bahamas, I saw a
bunch
> of the locals sitting on the tailgate of their truck full of conch. They
would
> take a conch and snap a whole deep into it to release the foot. They'd
slide
> the whole snail out and eat raw. I hungrily watch from the side, tempted
to
> ask for a bite.
>
> I never got a taste of raw conch, but did have conch fritters from one of
the
> local restaurants.
>

Same here, I've had Conch in Exuma and Eleuthera. I watched some native boys
put the hole in the front
of the shell and pull out the meat. I learned then to quickly look for that
hole when I found Conch while diving.
M