Snails you eat are only edible if you get them in a restaurant smothered in butter and garlic.

You've got a brave young man there!
liz | Homepage | 10.01.05 - 1:58 am | #

What a great story! I agree with Liz, and I'd add that in a restaurant, smothered in butter and garlic, they are not just edible, but heavenly. In fact, I ate escargot prepared that way in a restaurant for the first time when I was only a little bit older than D'Arcy. And loved them.

It is interesting when our kids start to see us as fallible, isn't it?
Julie | Homepage | 10.01.05 - 4:22 am | #

I think that there are two key things here: restaurant; and butter and garlic.
1)someone else is doing the preparation, and you don't have to deal with the stinkyness
2)anything would taste good with butter and garlic.
crit | Homepage | 10.02.05 - 12:45 am | #

Yep, butter and garlic. :)
mrsd | 10.02.05 - 4:23 am | #

i was at the coast just the other day swimming around under the sea with my cousin (he of 'the fishing song' fame) and he caught a lobster for us to eat. also some sea snails. none of us had eaten sea snails before but we cracked their shells open and fried them up with some abalone and heaps of garlic and they were absolutely delicious. no stinkiness occurred at any moment.
benjow | 10.04.05 - 12:09 am | #

yummo, lobster....and I've never had sea snails either. I think fresh is a whole nother deal from the weird tinned ones we had, and again, how can you go wrong with lots of garlic? D'Arcy's next request is for pippis. i think I'll have to rope my sister in on that one.
crit | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 11:26 pm | #

we tried to find some pippis on the beach just south of Broulee but we only found a couple and they were quite small so we let them go. So, I've yet to eat them, but have been told they are yummy.
benjow | 10.05.05 - 11:13 am | #

One of the fish shops has them...next time you're in town we'll have to do it I reckon.
crit | Homepage | 10.06.05 - 3:14 pm | #

Ha-ha, Crit, bravo to you! What a great story of mother-son culinary adventure! Come to think of it, I've never tried escargot, but your association of them with parts of female anatomy will stay with me forever. Perhaps if they are fried, the resemlance isn't as obvious? Otherwise, there's no hopes for me to educate my palate in that direction!

I miss you, Crit. Did you know that? :)
angel | Homepage | 10.10.05 - 12:39 pm | #

Thanks Angel. I've been thinking of you recently too. It's almost a year since we had coffee @ Marshall Fields!
crit | Homepage | 10.11.05 - 12:03 am | #

True! Want to celebrate by doing it again? ;) (Beware that Marshall Fields is soon going to be called Macy's, so better hurry!)
angel | Homepage | 10.11.05 - 12:15 pm | #