Note to Zoe

[otterdance]

Dear Zoe,

I appreciate the thought, and marvel at your knowledge of my love of sushi, but the dead, de-shelled garden snails are not nice to step on unexpectedly.

Love,

Mom
xoxoxo

Comments

[brightling]

Well huh. Its our yard chipmunks that like escargo - they shuck off the snail shells and leave them everywhere. Its really funny to watch the chipmunks pounce and shell them but you do have to watch for your bare toeses.

[otterdance]

I was recently told that our humble yard snails are indeed escargot, and that if I collect a bunch of them and feed them lettuce for a few days, they are edible. Haven't quite gotten up the courage yet, after stepping on so many of them.

[stardustmajick]

I wouldn't! After having watching so many episodes of those Discovery shows about parasites... There are so many different types that find their primary host by being consumed by snails that are then consumed by the thing they eventually live in. And all those those parasites are really painful and debilitating. Best to try and get your escargot from a place licensed to breed and sell/serve them.

[ivysoul]

Yeah well, ew.

[sheff_dogs]

Jazzdog used to bring snails in to play with. I was on the phone staring into space when I realised there was on odd brown mark on the wall opposite. Which wasn't an odd brown mark, it was a snail six foot up my dining room wall.

[otterdance]

LOL! I find mostly lizards in my house. They turn up in the most unexpected places, too.

[eglantine_br]

I had a cat, long ago who used to bring me live snakes! My mother always said that when an animal brings you kill you should at least pretend to want to eat it!

[ellid]

A few years ago Malfoy-the-cat bagged himself a katydid, and then had no idea of what to do with it. He kept trying to smack it with his front paw and missing. I finally had to finish the poor thing because otherwise it would have taken hours.

I really do wonder about him sometimes.

[ellid]

They're also called bush crickets. They're very, very, very green, and how Malfoy got it in the house I'll never know.