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Re: OT: Junk/Dim S(ui)m

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, September 15, 2003, 14:49
En réponse à John Cowan :


>"We eat everything that moves except trains and planes."
I thought the correct one was "They eat everything that flies except planes and everything with four legs except tables" ;))) .
>Fried, that's weird. Boiled and chopped fine with butter and garlic, >that's French! :-)
Boiled and chopped fine?!!!!!!! That's NOT French, not by a 9-parsec shot!!! The French way to eat snails is whole (cleaned of the intestines and other bitter parts, of course), cooked in the oven in their shell (or special plates meant specifically for snails) IN garlic butter (the snails must cook IN the butter). Garlic butter has to be prepared first, by mixing together butter, chopped shallots, chopped garlic, chopped parsley and a bit of peper. Cutting snails is at best a sin!! You're supposed to take them whole (with very small two-toothed forks used only for snails) and eat them whole. What you describe could be the recipe for a sauce, but certainly not the way we eat snails, wherever in France!! Other ways of eating snails is with a garlic cheese cream sauce (making it nearly like a soup), or with a tomato sauce (heard it was Spanish of origin). Fried doesn't surprise me at all. But boiled and chopped fine?!!!! You're wasting food by doing that I tell you!!!!! Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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