So, they are the ancestors of the French?........
Perhaps.
I always thought French ate snails and frogs because the nobility made the “little people” poor and declared hunting rights as theirs alone. So regular people ate what they could eat without getting sent to the dungeon.
The doorbell rings. The homeowner opens the door, sees no one. Closes the door. Twenty minutes later, the doorbell rings again. The man opens the door, notices a snail making its way down the doorpost. Figuring that some idiot kids were pranking him, and feeling frustrated, he picks up the snail and throws it at some kids playing in the yard across the street.
Three weeks later, the doorbell rings. The man opens the door. The snail is back, and sez, “what the hell was that all about?”