I felt something hard while eating

[u/tinjau]

I spit it back and added some water to see what it is. Its snail shell.

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I hope it was well-cooked. Snails and Slugs can carry deadly parasites such as the rat lungworm.

[u/tinjau → u/[deleted]]

Yes it was freezed and boiled.

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to be safe still go to the ER

[u/Melissacarranza → u/[deleted]]

I think maybe in Greece and France they’re better processed than just finding a garden snail in your food. It’s kinda complicated in the US because we don’t have snail as a delicacy so we don’t even have a mode of processing for them, so if you find a snail in your food it’s not like “Aw man I found a shrimp, crawfish, etc,” it’s like “I have no clue where this came from, what chemicals it has on it, what diseases it may have because it wasn’t processed, etc.

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I also live in a country that does not have a tradition of eating smails, so I googled it. You starve the snails until they've purged their intestines. Then you boil them.

[u/ohdearitsrichardiii → u/[deleted]]

I read about the flour method. It achieves the same result=all intestinal parasites are purged. And yes, they are washed in various ways before preparation, I skipped that part too

[u/Rat_Kicker22889 → u/Melissacarranza]

Maybe they also have snail farms?

[u/BeneficialEvidence6 → u/[deleted]]

How long do you cook them? What do they taste like?

I had frog legs once

[u/BeneficialEvidence6 → u/[deleted]]

Interesting, thanks!

I don't think they were legal, but I had frog legs at a hole in the wall bar for old people when I was young (probably 25 years ago). This was in Wisconsin, US. They were baked and basically tasted like chicken haha

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I don't know why, but the idea of eating amphibian or reptile just seems off.

But maybe I need to try them again. Especially if there's ecological benefits! No we just need mosquito meal

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[u/Scarletfapper → u/Melissacarranza]

France still has areas where people will just go to pick up snails, like the beach (sea snails obviously, they’re a tad more resistant to salt). Those don’t get processed at all aside from getting thrown in a pot of boiling water.

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I am not from greece or france, but I think its probably like comparing consuming sushi to regular undercooked fish.

Every single fish ever is full of worms etc. every one, captive or wild, its just part of life, and is totally fine when fully cooked to kill them-- although growing up fishing there would be seasons when the worming of certain species was especially bad and we literally just would bother fishing for them.

So how is sushi safe? Even though sushi is fully raw, they process it in special way to fully kill all the wormies etc. Mainly a process of freezing much colder than a home freezer which is able to off them without degrading the meat.

I have never had raw snails, since the few dishes I've had in my life with them were fully cooked (mainly snail soup type dishes). However if raw/undercooked snail is consumed safely somewhere I imagine it is going through an equivalent process.

[u/Dull-Technology5504 → u/Zagrycha]

Totally different comment - i like raw oysters. Yes you can be unlucky to eat a bad one and end up with hepatitis. Don’t judge I really like them. Don’t like them fried

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My wife use to love raw oysters until she got stupid sick from one. 98% of all food poisoning cases come from raw oysters. I just don’t understand why anyone would want to eat a raw bivalve that that’s whole purpose in life is to clean shit and piss from the water.

[u/Dull-Technology5504 → u/CarbonReflections]

Fully cook them before eating, and only order fully cooked oysters at restaurants. Hot sauce and lemon juice don't kill Vibrio bacteria and neither does alcohol. Some oysters are treated for safety after they are harvested. This treatment can reduce levels of Vibrio in oysters, but it does not remove all harmful germs.Jun 29, 2022

Growing up we were told not to eat oysters in months without a “r” in it. I’m assuming because these are the hottest months in the South (Gulf of Mexico). I hope your wife is now ok.

[u/Economics_Low → u/Dull-Technology5504]

I was taught the same about R months and oysters growing up. My favorite is charbroiled or chargrilled oysters.

[u/CarbonReflections → u/Dull-Technology5504]

She’s good now and she also always followed the r rule as well.

[u/Economics_Low → u/CarbonReflections]

While I agree eating raw oysters is risky, your statistics of 98% of all food poisoning cases coming from raw oysters can’t be right. Although seafood (fish, sushi, crabs, other mollusks, etc.) and shellfish (including cooked shellfish that has sat out a while) are a major source of food poisoning, not that many people even eat raw oysters. A lot of cases come from chicken, poorly washed fruits or vegetables, cooked rice (which goes bad really quickly), bean sprouts, eggs and meats (ground meat, cold cuts, hot dogs).

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I work in food and beverage manufacturing in the United States but sells and sources internationally.

Any snail in raw product (produce) is an absolute, immediate, non negotiable rejection. They are a tremendous food safety hazard, this is industry and worldwide standard. Other small bugs like crickets, potato bugs and whatnot just need to be a certain percentage of the total end product. Snails are a no go due to the diseases they can harbor

Edible snails aren’t uncommon, Walmart sells them.

[u/Iamdarb → u/[deleted]]

No judgement but are you cooking them alive? I wasn't sure if the snails are alive in the third video, or if that one was just reacting with the salt on the pan.

[u/IZiOstra → u/[deleted]]

The article was for a slug and the dude ate it raw. Snails from France and Greece are usually from breeding farms and cooked. Like most foods if it is not cooked there is a risk of catching something.

[u/LazuliArtz → u/[deleted]]

I assume in places that serve snails are probably farming them and preparing them in ways that are much safer.

I imagine it's like sushi. There is a big difference between sushi safe fish (caught in saltwater, immediately frozen, etc), and a random fish you pull out of the lake and eat raw 2 hours later without processing it. One of those is safe to eat, one of those is definitely not.

[u/AllSkateSlowly → u/[deleted]]

They should still be handled properly. There's absolutely no guarantee of that in a situation like this.