Re: Att. Ray -- of snails and slugs
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 7, 2001, 5:28 |
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At 2:51 pm -0400 6/6/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
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>> 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.
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>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.
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