Hermione Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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> > How popular were these snails for eating and I
> > wonder which type they were?
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> I'm not too sure I'm really all that keen on
> snails. The last time I had them they were
> covered in garlic butter, and seemed a bit rubbery
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> But maybe the AE had a different cooking method!
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When I worked in Germany I had a direct rail link to Paris and use to go there regularly the train would come just after 5 and we would get in to ther Gare de l'Est around 11 PM. At that time a restaurant near the Opera use to have a special of 24-36 escargot with a half baguette for a song after 10PM. They were not rubbery.

I would suspect they ate snails. There was also suspected Pharaoh by the name of 'small snail'? mentioned in the tomb U-j of King Scorpion I at Umm el-Qa'ab.

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Surprise surprise the hieroglyph looks like a snail! On page 120



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/21/2021 04:53PM by Hans.