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Author Topic: Eating Escargot Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-25-2009 12:56 PM                  While I LUV sushi and raw oysters on the 1/2 shell, I have yet to bring myself to try escargot...ya'know, those snails you find in your garden and served at "snooty" restaurants. YUK! But, my curious side keeps popping up to try them. Anyone have any tips for me to overcome my mental block and try them?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-25-2009 02:59 PM                        With a little garlic and butter, they're pretty good. But then again, anything with garlic and butter is pretty good...  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-25-2009 03:08 PM                     Why not just throw the snails in the trash can then eat the garlic and butter? To me it's not a simple matter of whether I think escargot is gross. I'd eat lobster, shrimp or oysters. Those are just as gross if you think about it. Escargot simply doesn't register as "food" with me.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-25-2009 03:23 PM                  Randy, NONE of those are "food". I cannot stand lobster, It's waaaay too rich tasting for me and I feel sorry for them when the (asshole) so-called "cook" puts them alive in boiling water...How FUCKING cruel and SICK!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-25-2009 04:03 PM                     Geez Phil do I have to write it out for you again? If it lives in or around an ocean, it is not food.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-25-2009 04:06 PM                  So Brad, based on your post, YOU consider snails "food"?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-25-2009 04:08 PM                     Clearly eating those oysters and sushi has made you go stupid. Hell no, snails are not "food".  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-25-2009 04:10 PM                  HA!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-25-2009 04:12 PM                     Need I remind you of this very important thread from the past?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-25-2009 04:16 PM                  That thread has NOTHING to do with this topic!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-25-2009 04:22 PM                     Sure it does. Just like this thread, it discusses nasty shit that people eat.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-25-2009 06:08 PM                     Ian ordered escargot at dinner one night while a bunch of us were in Dallas. I think Danny and Scott were the only takers on samples.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-25-2009 07:10 PM                     I've eaten the damned things twice, both to be nice. The snails as far as I can tell have no flavor. Stir fry some rubber bands at low temp with the butter and garlic. When you eat them either spit 'em out or gulp down whole, they'll pass thru.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-25-2009 08:51 PM                        I like shrimp, halibut and tuna but I can't see why anyone would eat escargot, lobster, crab or oysters on purpose.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-25-2009 09:03 PM                        The best way to eat escargot is to visit France. Doesn't make the snails any better, but hey, at least you're in France. Tried them once in High School. Chewed that sucker for 20 mins and couldn't get it down. Tasted like a piece of gristle rolled in a freshly mowed lawn and dipped in butter and garlic.  |  IP: Logged

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