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From: rfc@calmasd.UUCP (Robert Clayton)
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Subject: Re: raising snails
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 18:50:40 EST
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> 
> 	The legend has it that some frenchman, around the turn of the century,
> 	or perhaps earlier, imported a couple dozen live snails of the edible
> 	variety from France in order to breed them for food.  Unfortunately,
> 	a few escaped.  Being a foreign variety, they had no natural enemies 
> 	here and took over the west coast and are now the common California
> 	garden snail.
> 
> Please don't flame me if this is total BS.  I can't even remember the
> source of the legend any more.
> -- 
> Herb Kanner
> Tymnet, Inc.

I read the same story in the PSA in-flight magazine within the last year
or so.

Bob Clayton
GE Calma
San Diego