Escargot Away

The pests in my garden have been out of hand this year.

It’s kind of depressing. I am growing some strawberry pots filled with succulents but something has been eating large holes in my hens and chicks (Sempervivum tectorum).

I had a sneaking suspicion who was eating my little hens, so my sons and I borrowed a high powered flashlight from my husband and we waited for the sun to go down (which took a while since the summer solstice just occured) and then we crept outside to the scene of the worst damage—and look what we found.

My hunch was correct.

While my sons and I were collecting a container full of these fat pig-like mollusks our neighbor, who also happens to be a chef, stopped by and laid claim to the snails.

You see, he wants to take them and purge them and make escargot from their little soft bodies.

Umm—tasty.

My kids couldn’t have been any more grossed out.

Stumble It!

Comments

[Yolanda Elizabet]

LOL, escargots are not too bad with a nice dollop of garlicky butter. Here they are chomping away with ruthless abandon too.

[chigiy]

Hey Yolanda,
Eating snails is only fair.
I will let your know how they turn out.

[Glenda]

My sister did that once for a friend. I myself like them, if they are cook right with herbs and all.