[LIConFem]

"Note that the escargot are farm raised and cleaned, not just some slugs they found in the garden..."

My grandfather used to buy them in large wicker barrels and keep them under his back porch. I've eaten them many times as a kid. Used to pull them out of the shell with a toothpick... after they were cooked, of course. They were very tasty (the snails, not the toothpicks).

[Red Badger]

Now, if I could just get them out of my garden....................