Posted on 06/23/2013 4:32:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
I suscribe to the theory (which...ahem...I must say in all modesty that I just made up)that the escargot eating Frogs simply followed the snails as they migrated north (at a snail’s pace of course)after the Ice Age.
After all, no one has ever produced evidence of ‘snail transporting equipment’ with which the Frenchies would have carried the snails north.
My wife is of Irish ancestry. This story will provide me ammunition in arguments for years to come.
Wait a minute! I read an article here about a year ago that said that DNA research showed that the Irish were descended from the Germans. So now, on Saint Patricks Day, we all have to drink green beer and eat bratwurst with escargot?
That Ireland may have been, at least, partially populated by the seafaring Basques is not so far fetched.
Almost ALL snails are hermaphroditic.
ALL hermaphroditic snails can self-fertilize and lay eggs in times of environmental stress.
And ALL humans can cross water. Your “snail floated across on driftwood” idea is complete nonsense.
http://www.naturalnews.com/036268_Fukushima_beaches_invasive_species.html
If the snails were domesticated animals I would say the hypothesis might be correct.
The nonsense part of all this is that some dude traveled all that distance, ignoring the antelope and fish and other foods on the way, but made sure he could snack on the snails in his backpack...
Please remove me from your list. Most of the posts I’ve seen have little scientific justification.
Not lame if there are similarities in Celtic and native language from those mountains on the French and Spanish border.
The French are known to eat the snails...maybe they ate them in the stone age. Could explain a lot about the French if they survived for thousands of years on snails.
The French is famous for "doctoring" foods and snails are among them.
The closest I get are mussels, clams and oysters.
In my garden...my snails croak in beer.
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