Recently, on a cruise, I tried escargot for the first time. I found them to taste like soggy garlic croutons. Very bready and very garlicy. I could not discern by taste or mouth feel anything other than the breadyness. Is this how escargot is supposed to taste? It was kind of disappointing. I have had exotic food all over the world and enjoy it or not, I could at least tell I was trying something new.
I never eat anything that I've been totally disgusted by when scraping it off the sole of my shoe.
It is too early in the day to even be thinking about snails as food.
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Had a buddy who used to hunt snails. He finally retired when he jumped a covey of six and three outran him...
I've had 'em, supposedly prepared by people who LIKE them and prepare them correctly, and they're on my list of "Yeah, if you're starving you can even eat THAT" list...
God gave us Cajuns crawfish so we didn't have to resort to snails...
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Well now crawfish is some of the finest eating in the world. It ranks in my top three favorite foods along with shrimp. Third place keeps getting swapped around, but those two stay at the top.
I've read some recipes for snails, and it seems I was served escargot baked in garlic butter. I have been wanting to try them for some time. I also ate them to gross out my kids (a dad's job after all). I was just disappointed that there wasn't more to it than I got.
You got the wrong kind. They are usually a little tough and chewy. I suspect a chef was trying to make them better, stretch, or worse yet, using a processed product that will keep for months.Originally Posted by SciFiJim
I don't like stuff like those nasty Oysters or the awful tasting Crawdads, (including the ocean going,) but Escargot is surprisingly good if prepared correctly.
I will admit however that I was almost 50 before I had the nerve to try them. I seldom order them because they are usually too expensive.
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I tried them a long time ago and thought they weren't bad. However they were prepared like "Shrimp Scampi" not breaded. I think you got took.
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I eat them often. And frankly they are like suid (or pencil erasor) in good savory spiced garlic butter and dipping the bread is the really big treat
It's all in how you cook them, the garlic sauce is a compliment to the snail! Actualy they are very good in my opinion!
Like every thing else it is either a Like or dislake! If not liked just tell the stuard they are NOT to your liking, NO problem!
Now when I was shot on my ass I asked for "Cabbage Cassarole" that sort of took them back, LOL. I worked out with the chef and they ALL ate it ike crazy!
I have never heard of breaded escargot. Sounds terrible. The chef didn't know what he was doing, and wouldn't get past the first day with Chef Ramsey. Don't give up on it, find someone who knows how to prepare it properly. I can even get good escargot in this small town in NW Montana!
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Send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of Oysters and Crawdads.
I'll take care of them immigrants right quick
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Ditto-
In my youth, I made a living as a keyboardist and played in some very fine eating establishments from time to time, and got to eat some very fine foods. One was escargots. I like em'.
Which reminds me- we have BIG blue colored crawdads down in the creek- Fresh running creek. I need to wire me up a trap and go get some. Been 10 years since I did that,.
Yeah, had em a couple times. Anything that tastes like garlic butter is okay with me.
Used to work at moffet field on the south end of the bay... Lived on base in the old visiting officers quarters. I'd bike out every morning to work and go by the airfield corner reflectors. For some reason, every morning there'd be several dozen giant snails holding a race to get to the top. Always made me start thinking of a pound of butter and a head of garlic.
Now, a new one to me last year I hadn't heard of before is pea crabs. They live inside the shells of live east coast oysters. You eat them whole, they have a tender shell like a softshell blue crab. Sweet, and purty tasty for an oyster bug!
DrB, My buddy is an EMT Fireman at Moffit. Has been for years.
Neat. I was out there in 2001 for six months... Actually was on base for 9/11...
Doubt I'd have made your friends acquaintance, pat. Small world, though.
His name is Pat Murphy.
ate it a couple times and it didnt impress me. It wasnt bad just not near as good as youd think with all the fuss made over it.
No, Pat, I didn't have the pleasure.
Working at Moffet/Ames was fun though. Mountain View isn't too big, the brewery right there was a lot of fun with good food, and all the folks I met were great.
Had an old crew buddy who was rowing for Berkley while in graduate school... had a hoot going to some matches.
I worked with the systems engineering group on advanced methods for launch vehicle design at the time.
Are you in the area?
Best regards,
Caleb
No I got out of the area years ago. Miss the food.
I had them decades ago. Was like chewing on a large rubber band soaked in garlic butter. Wasn't impressed
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