SC - fishiness
D. Clay-Disparti
Clay at talstar.com
Thu Jul 29 18:44:45 PDT 1999
ROFL.....and they get grossed out when I suck the heads on my crawfish! Even if
you don't suck the heads quite a few friends get grossed out at the sight of
crawfish. They don't know a good thing when they see it!
Isabella
LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/29/99 9:00:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Clay at talstar.com
> writes:
>
> << It helps clean
> out their digestive track according to my mother. Perhaps it does the same
> thing with them.
>
> Isabella >>
>
> This is accurate to a point. According to Unmentionable Cuisine, the primary
> purpose of purging the snail is to remove the residue of TOXIC plants.
> Removal of feces is not an issue since the purgative itself whether it be
> milk, cornmeal or whatever) is itself digested and becomes fecal matter. In
> the case of shellfish it is to remove sand and grit that the animal may have
> ingested.
>
> But the reality of things is that any one who eats either shellfish or snails
> is also eating the fecal matter. Something to remember the next time your
> local food bore refuses to eat liver pate when it is offered but scarfs down
> the clams and mussels. :-)
>
> Ras
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