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Subject: Snails - response to Phil Ngai
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 16:38:13 EST
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	A while back Phil Ngai asked if the snails in his yard in
California are edible. While thumbing through one of my gardening
books I happened to come upon some information on those common
brown snails. (I remember stepping all over them walking down the
street in Palo Alto during the rainy season. Yuk!) It seems that
those little brown snails are the same snails as those in France.
They were introduced in CA to start a snail growing industry.
Seems the little buggers took to CA just a little too well.
So, if you purify them buy feeding them lettuce and cornmeal, you
should be able to eat them. The author of the book is from Los
Altos, so I imagine she's seen quite a few of the little devils
herself.

Sharon Badian
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