[Scpg] Re: slugs, snails

ijosephs ijosephs at comcast.net
Wed May 12 13:40:38 PDT 2004


I'd rather pay homage to a bust of my friend Akiva fashioned out of the
chicken eggs which come from the nutritious snails.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <seedmind at usa.net>
To: <nina at pitome.com>; <SBOGC at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <ccpg at arashi.com>; <scpg at arashi.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: slugs, snails


"Nina Gelman-Gans" <nina at pitome.com> wrote:

> pick the slugs up by hand at night. Then throw them in the garbage. It
takes
> time, but it does reduce the population.
> I've done this very successfully with snails.
> Nina
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Try not to put living organisms in the garbage.

they are good food for chickens and others (including frogs who eat
prodigious amounts of slugs).

if you let snails live on a bed of organic corn meal or something like
that for a few days, it cleans them out and makes them tasty for human
consumption. In santa barbara they're usually the fancy "escargot" served
in French restaurants. maybe you can sell your free-range, organic
wildcrafted local snails to a restaurant or trade them for meals.

sorry orthodox jews, snails ain't kosher. i feed them to the chickens and
then eat the kosher chicken eggs. you can fashion cooked egg as "mock
snail" and thus have a kosher way to eat snails via chickens.

if you get a lot of eggs, you can fashion a really big mock slug or
snail, name it, and have a ritual feast with all your friends paying
homage to these humble and protein-rich creatures which you'd you'd never
throw in the garbage.

bon appetit!
akiva werbalowsky





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