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"-L." > wrote:

> Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> >
> > Gawd... I've never seen a snail that big. I wonder if they bite if you try
> > to kill and eat them.
> >
> > Michael
>
> With what? Their wittle snaily gums? LOL....
>
> When I lived in San Jose, I walked my dogs at a certain park every
> morning. And every morning there would be an old Grandma and her
> little grandson, about 3, walking along the sidewalk, picking the
> snails out of the grass and off the pavement and putting them in a
> little plastic cup. Lunch!
>
> -L.
> (God help me if I ever become so desperate...)

ROFL!!!

That reminds me of when my sister and I were little!
I think I was 7 and she was 9. We were wandering around the neighborhood
one day carrying an empty KFC bucket (like the chicken used to come in)
and picking up snails. This was in LA California...

We must have gathered about 50 or so of them. I don't remember why, I
guess we were having fun.

We took them home to mom and dad and they put them into a box with
cornmeal on the bottom to "purge", then mom did cook them up.

My sister and I refused to eat them of course. <G>

I appreciate snails now of course and realize that those native pests
are the same species that are raised for restaurants and get charged a
small fortune for.
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Peace!
Om

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