Re: Att. Ray -- of snails and slugs

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>SOMEWHERE (not Julia Child, apologies) I've read that wild snails should
>be
>kept first in a box or container with corn meal for several days-- that
>apparently purges their systems of anything nasty they might have eaten
>(??).  But it's much easier to just buy them canned at a specialty store.

I am too poor at the moment to buy them :). But i see at least twenty
petit gris in my garden :). I'd probably want to purge the snails in my
garden because they keep eating my ornamental plants (nothing poisonous,
they keep eating the leaves of my canna, leaving holes).

Someone mentioned oysters: Occasionally we get warnings here in Monterey
about the shellfish, because there are poisonous algal blooms every so
often, and since much of the shellfish are filter feeders, you can get ill.

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