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Some reality TV-host recently got in some controversy for using unusual food like these for effect.

Personally, I don't care if people don't like a food or poke fun at a dish I'm familiar with. But some people get sensitive about cuisine even if they themselves don't like those dishes because they take it as a personal affront.

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As a typical French, happily eating snails, frogs and strong cheese, I find it a bit silly to take offence.

do you have any advice on eating snails?

In garlic butter sauce with white bread to soak it in. Very tasty. Snails are chicken taste-wise, and texture-wise - not that much different from the chewier bits that you can fish out from a bowl of Boston clam chowder.

Think of them like oysters or mussels. Snail is often prepared with lots of garlic, pesto, or cheese-ish things. The south of France styles are pretty easily taken, since there’s more garlic than snail :).

Eat them in southern Italy. They’re cheaper and you can actually eat more than 5 in a sitting. They vary from 1cm to 2.5cm in size, and you can have a dishful of them.

My grandma used to cook them in the summer with tomatoes and onions in a little clear soup.

In Apulia you might find Municeddhe, which are just cooked with oil and butter and maybe herbs (as far as I know). They’re amazing.

This is cross cultural among med countries, in Spain for example you have them served as drinking snacks

You could also try in Catalonia, it's also a local dish (there are several preparations). Personally I don't particularly like the taste of snails themselves, but I don't think they are gross. It's just like "ground clams" in a way.

Coincidentally enough, "qui menja caragols per Sant Joan, té diners tot l'any".

Translation: if you snails on Saint John's Eve (June 23rd), you'll have money all year.

I think you forgot "eat" in your translation.

Yes, go to a good restaurant, the proper recipe is taking forever (days).

Don’t think about it.

Yes: don't.

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