[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Perhaps I am just a spoiled American, but I never considered wishing I could eat the snails!

Guess you would not have done your patriotic duty back around 1960 in Fort Lauderdale. As often happens in south Florida, an exotic animal with no natural enemies in the US started to get established there, after somebody let some loose. These were giant African Land Snails whose shells were more than 6 inches across. They were slithering all over, leaving slimy paths several inches across. For a while it was thought that they couldn't be stopped from taking over southern Florida. Then somebody discovered that they tasted just like giant escargot!

YUM YUM!!

[HairOfTheDog]

Eating enormous snails sounds yuckier than the idea of eating these little guys. At least these little guys could be hidden in some soup. No need to field-dress them and filet them!

[Sam Cree]

Those snails sound big enough to shoot, say with a .223. OTOH, maybe they'd make good ammo for a potato gun.

Somehow, I don't remember having seen one. I bet they'd be noticable if you ran over one with a car, though.

[SuziQ]

When we were in FL this August, the Gulf was churned up by Trop. Storm Bertha and we had one morning when tons of sea slugs were washed up on the beach. It was GROSS! One little girl had one in a bucket of water and the darn thing looked like a baby manta ray with wings and everything. Actually my sister in law said it looked like a sea Cucumber. Whatever, it took two days for them to dry out and get washed away!