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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

When the worldwide recession, which is coming, occurs everyone will
be eagerly looking for slugs to eat.

---- Original Message ----
From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Fw:  slugs as food
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:55:34 -0400

>
>Here is a site claiming to list edible molluscs.
>http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_terr
>estrial.html
>
>However they make a valid disclaimer at the top about toxins, and of
>course thorough cooking is needed to kill pathogens/ parasites.
>
>Bon appetit!
>
>
>
>"What about slugs? Are they edible? We eat escargot, a snail carrying
>its
>shell, so I have started wondering about slugs. I can tell you that
>they
>are
>plentiful in this part of the world right now, with the unusual
>overcast
>
>skies and daily downpours we have been having. We find slugs
>everywhere.
>It
>would be pointless to tell you what they are capable of when they are
>present in great numbers.
>However, if we though of them as a source of easily accessible
>protein,
>then
>it could be seen as a bonus....
>Any comments or recipes?
>
>Hélène, zone 4, north of Ottawa"
>
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