slugs (was Re: [HPforGrownups] In or out?)

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

I really love snails cooked in butter, garlic and parsley.  I think 
that slugs are probably similar, but having had an unfortunate 
experience once, I cannot contemplate the idea without feeling sick.  
My salad in a restaurant had a live slug in it, which I didn't notice 
until I felt something wriggle on my tongue.  I obviously removed it 
as quickly as possible, but was left with a yellowish-brown 
flourescent residue on my tongue - it took me absolutely ages to get 
rid of the texture of this from my mouth.  Ugh!  I therefore had 
great empathy for Ron during that scene.

I didn't suffer any side effects from this - I guess because I didn't 
actually eat it - unless you can call paranoia over salad in 
restaurants a side effect...

Catherine




--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., meckelburg at f... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> > Jen F wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually... I highly suspect that slugs *are* digestible; 
they're 
> a
> > > relative of snails and mollusks, I think.  Eating (infected) 
raw 
> > slugs
> > > can cause several gastrointestinal disorders (that can be quite
> > > serious), but provided you cook the slugs properly, they should 
be
> > > edible.  
> > 
> > In wine, with plenty of garlic.  ::smacks lips::
> 
> in Oil, with Herbs and, yes really plenty, Garlic too... they taste 
> great!!
>   
> > > --jen, who has never tried snails, let alone slugs *g*
> > 
> > The only time I've eaten something that tasted good but that I 
just 
> > could not enjoy because of the =thought= of what I was eating was 
> > when I had escargot.  I've never ordered them again.
> 
> I think, they are really the reason, why I taste things other 
people 
> call eatable, before refusing just by the thought!! i tasted them 
> first when I was 10. My Grandfather ordered some in a restaurant, 
> asked me to taste. When I said I love them, he told me what they 
were.
> I was too proud to just say I won't eat them! I still love them!
> 
> But I was on a holiday in Tunesia, where they served brain!! I 
*did* 
> taste a spoonfull. YUCK!! Never again!!
> 
> Mecki!
> > 
> > Amy Z