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Re: Att. Ray -- of snails and slugs

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, June 7, 2001, 5:28
At 2:51 pm -0400 6/6/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote: > >> And [snails] are certainly eaten in some anglophone countries; >> I've had them as 'starters' in South Africa and found them also on the menu >> in the good ol' USA. > > >I have seen "escargots" on menus in French restaurants, but I have >not seen "snails" labeled by name on any menu here.
They were certainly on the menu at a cafe in York Beach in Maine - and called "snails", not 'escargot'. I suppose over there in the north-east of the USA it could Canadian French influence. Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================