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After watching the video the end product seems very appetizing.
Bonny bring de poa……….aw gawd…………….yuuuukkkkkk :-0
Arrrgggggghhhh…………………….bring anuuder poa
@David
Ok can we export these to the UK? What is the buying price?
@islandgal
As can be seen from the menu of this African restaurant the snail is sold at a whopping 5 pounds served in a sauce. At minimum suppliers should be able to fetch BDS3.00.
My God my God, my family is veely interested… We will talk to the chef… no, no, we will buy his restaurant no? This may make veely good sweet and sour and stir fry no? I think Mr Hallout may want to see video too … should make veely nice roti too no?
“Slugs are hermaphroditic and have a full set of organs of both sexes. They have relatively large penises which, during mating, wrap around each other in a tight spiral. They sometimes have difficulty separating afterwards. When separating seems impossible, one slug gnaws off either its own, or its partner’s penis, so that separation is then possible. No replacement penis grows, and the apophallated slug adopts a purely female function from that point onward.”
This not seem very funny at all …
I wonder if these snails were an aphrodisiac, how quickly they would disappear? Hmmmnn
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THIS COUNTRY AIN’T HAVING THESE BUGGERS HANGING ABOUT IN THE UK AS THEY KNOW WHAT A PEST THEY ARE TO CROPS…
SO THE CAMPAIGN:
http://sites.google.com/site/brixtonsnails/
Hopes to tackle it head on…
Nigerian restaurants still serve it and there are African shops which still them but the Animal Rights Activists are working hard to get these “bastards” banned…
@ Islandgirl
You are correct in your assumption – these “buggers” are an aphrodisiac used by the Chinese Triad Mafia and also by African men as well….
Girlfriend, one of these “buggers” can cost as much as £3.50 each bought in specialist African shops throughout South London… And as David said, a restaurant will charge you 5 quid for the plate of the food the white guy was served in the video….
It’s a JOKE!!!
Because we are ‘squirmish’ about eating certain foods, it does not mean they are disgusting. I, for instance, in my travels and writings about the culinary habits of our islands have hunted for and tasted iguana (Curacao), frog (Dominica), alligator (Cuba), Manicou, Agouti, Lap etc. in Trinidad…black pudding from there is made with pig’s blood and a more delicious something you could not want. Land Crab in most islands is a tasty treat – curried or otherwise. Green Turtle in Cayman Islands is farmed for food. Remember those fat ugly sea cucumbers that used to wash up on our shores when we had a vibrant eco-system in the our waters? Well they make a delicious food in other parts of the world. In Tobago the sea cockroach – little hard-backed snail type stuck to rocks in the sea, are boiled, after straining the animal off, the water is a drink used as an aphrodisiac (and it works!). In China, they eat scorpions/ants/maggots/worms/cockroaches and and and – all served up deep-fried on the side of the road in Beijing – these I have not tasted as I have not been to China but will…However, I have eaten roasted black beetles in Toronto – the ones we also used to get flying around at night, seldom seen any more as we continue to destroy our environment. In the deep forests of the amazon, Amerindians eat worms raw. The long list of the ‘different’ foods, eaten in one country and not eaten in another goes on and on and on.
And whilst you may all by now be ‘barffing’ in your silly little pots and laughing at the eating habits of others, bet a lot of you did not know that right here in Barbados, monkey is being made into a delicious stew in red wine sauce eaten on white rice – and no! this does not come from “others” who live here but born and bred Bajans. Put that in your pipe and smoke it…oops! sorry! if you going to do that ensure you are not under a roof!
In France there is a restaurant that people come from all over the world to eat at…and what is their specialty….water rat! Whilst I have not had the pleasure of going to this particular little village where this restaurant stands, I have eaten and certainly enjoyed escargot not just in Paris but in restaurants all over the world including some here…even bought them live in Toronto and cooked them myself…in fact last night I cooked a dish of Indonesian escargot (from a tin), Chinese Rice noodles, mushrooms, little olive oil and topped with Parmesan cheese.
Now what is escargot – nothing but a snail. What is an African snail? A very large escargot. It stands to reason that they can be eaten once prepared correctly. I have not tasted them ‘yet’ but intend to…there is a gentleman here on the island, a certain farmer, who has been proclaiming (much to the disgust of Barbadians) that they can be eaten and exported – and he is still alive to prove it having enjoyed them himself.
The African snail here in Barbados is exactly the one you see in the cooking show (and by the way I love this man – he travels all over the world looking for the exotic – yes! peoples – all these types of foods are called ‘exotic’!!!). And here we are, on this little island, with these animals destroying our pretty little gardens and edible leafy produce and instead of doing something constructive, all we do is moan and groan that ‘somebody’ is not doing enough. We have food manufacturers here that sit all day and fuss about ‘recession’ and crying in their soup about sales being down. Why? Because we have one thousand different labels of peppers sauce, one million kinds of chutneys, one billion of seasonings – all tasting the same basically – because we will not here in Barbados get the hell outta de box and come up with something totally different. Well here is the chance. I say the BMA should be talking to their manufacturers and begin the production…we have a British/French and Chinese Embassy here with import/export departments, talk to them and see if exporting these snails makes sense…and if they tell you no…get up off from behind your desk and go to London, contact the Peckham South London market Association (or whoever) and get some orders. A receiving/holding station for snails can be set up where perhaps one could purge them for a period, and then they can be either sold live to those countries who might gladly buy them, or cut into smaller pieces bottled or canned…maybe even use some of that same pepper sauce to spice them up! Ready-to-eat snail in various sauces and and and….the opportunities to create a whole new Bajan/African snail (and the Pan -African Movement should be most happy about this unison) exported all over the world as an ‘exotic’ is right there waiting to be tapped – a niche that could make someone very wealthy in no time at all. A specialty African-snail restaurant could also be set up here – there are many who if they are not careful, their high prices will be soon closing them down as this period of financial insecurity looms. Now that we have all these African/Brazilian and Chinese tourists supposedly ramming our airport just waiting to get into Barbados for their holidays….maybe there is a market for these snails right here in our island restaurants – served on a bed of cou-cou in a delicious spicy sauce…I cannot see that they would not be a hit.
But no…we would rather sit and cry in snail yards about how government is doing nothing to eradicate this ‘pest’… and carry on about them in disgust as if this ready-made food is not fit for human consumption…just because I guess we in Barbados feel we are the only humans in the whole wide world (and that of course because we live on God’s own and only rock) that understand cuisine.
Please!
@BAFBFP , what is the Chinese word for African Snail? Just in case its on the Jing Jong Restaurant menu.
Giant African Land Snails (often abbreviated to GALS) make fascinating, and easy to care for pets, with a range of different species with similar needs, which I’ll try to outline here.
Advantages: Easy to care for, cheap, great for kids and adults alike
SPECIES
Ranging from the small achatina iredalei to the massive achatina achatina (Tiger Snail), there are various species kept as pets in the UK. Some are more rare than others, with lissachatina fulica, and archachatina marginata (commonly called “margies”) being two of the most commonly kept species, and probably the easiest to care for – making them ideal “starter” species.
*Lissachatina fulica*
Lissachatina fulica reach adult shell sizes of up to 14cm, although 10cm is a more average size. They are the most common species kept as pets in the UK and are amazingly diverse in colouring, shape and size. Requiring less than other GALS in the way of specialist care, heating, etc, they are very easy to care for and thrive in most situations. They are prolific breeders, laying around 100 eggs at a time of about 3-6mm in size. This is how they have become so common in the UK, with lots ending up in rescues. This is easily avoided with proper care (see below).
*Archachatina marginata*
Archachatina marginata are another commonly kept species of GALS. There are 3 variants of this species – ovum, marginata, and suturalis. They range in adult size from approximately 9cm (suturalis) to 17cm (ovum and marginata), and there are even “white fleshed” snails of this species. Archachatina marginatas prefer warmer and more humid conditions to lissachatina fulica, but are generally hardy. Being an Archachatina species, they lay less, and larger, eggs than Achatina species, commonly laying a batch of approximately 10 eggs of around 2cm in size. Many snail-keepers now keep rescue margies from Brixton Market (sold as food) – if this is of interest to you, you can visit the PetSnails or Cybersnail forum (see below), where lots of Brixton margie owners visit, for advice.
I will get Keith Laurie to do a dish for you guys.
Conc, Lambi and veely nice peppered Achatina. Some province call it chicken as well no..?
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