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

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

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)

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.