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$115 for a spoonful of snail eggs?

Sheesh, when the snail in my aquarium laid eggs and fill the thing up with about 100 tiny snails I should have held onto them instead of getting 20¢ apiece at the pet store

$115 bucks?!! Wish I had known that when I had been raising snails as a science project in high school.
Those snails were extremely productive.

I'll stick to regular caviar, thank you. I'm sure this is all very tasty, but in the end, I hate snails. They skeeve me out and I spend most of my summer killing them in my garden. The less I have to do with them the better.

For French speaking people, here is a news report :

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=fr-fr&fg=rss&vid=d46abfaa-faff-43ad-bff1-127035d667db&from=fr-fr

"...burst on the tongue with subtle autumn and woody flavors."

Um, what the heck kind of flavor is "autumn"?!Dead leaves and burning jack-o-lanterns?

--TwoDragons

It's all so relative. I grew up eating Durian, love the smell and the taste, so to hear Anthony B (whom I love) hyperbolically say "it's like French-kissing your dead grandmother..." makes me roll my eyes. It's totally un-exotic to me.

Well, it's official, there is nothing that you can't sell to rich, stupid people. Snail caviar? If they sold it for ten times what they are asking now, they'd sell much more than they are selling now, because if you charge a lot for it, it MUST be better and worth more, simply based on exclusivity. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Ditto that Mel.....
I have some apple snails in my aquariums that love to hump and lay eggs all over the place, maybe I can start selling their egg clumps for a bunch of $$...
*rolls eyes*..... Rich people are dumb.....

As a child, I once stepped on a snail in a shell while barefoot. [Insert picture of Calvin freaking out.] I can never forget that sensation.

I think I'll stick with Salmon Roe, thank you.