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OldSoldier Donating Member (982 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 06:45 AM
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153. That's why they started eating them!
The people of Bordeaux were the first to discover the...uhh, joy...of eating snails. The royal court had taken all the real food for themselves, leaving the commoners to scavenge. Some guy saw these big-ass snails crawling around and thought to himself, "those have got to be edible. They've just got to be."

After applying the First Immutable Law of Italian Cuisine--anything is edible if it's got enough garlic in it--the practice of eating snails spread like wildfire. Call 'em soul food with a Gallic flair.

I would assume that the practice of eating frog's legs started at that time too, and for the same reason.
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