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Comment by MrDrMcCoy | Hacker News Reader

Good flavor I can buy, but the last time I tried snails it was the texture that had me gagging.

To be honest most of us French only love it for the garlic butter we serve them with.

That's kind of why I don't really like french snails: it's mostly about the butter, and I don't find eating a chunk of butter to be a pleasant experience really! Give me garlic butter on bread any day instead

It's not the only way the french eat snails though, in the south it's eaten in a tomato sauce (catalan-style as they call it, so probs not just a french thing)

Americans eat lobster for the same reason. It was considered trash food until we discovered garlic butter.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=was+lobster+considered+peas...

I still consider it trash food. I have a firm policy of not eating any seafood that wears its skeleton on the outside.

French escargots are smaller. I can see how the texture would be off-putting in a snail that’s about ten times as big.

Whelks come to my mind. I like them with ton of mayonnaise but it’s hit or miss. When I get it out of its shell, if it’s take too much time to see it unfold completely, I know I won’t have a pleasant time. You never know what you’ll get with them. Snails are more predictable.

Yeah, it's like conch. If it's not cooked low and slow, it's like chewing a bicycle tire. It takes a good 2-3+ hours to do it right.

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