I would love to try eating snails, (like the french do) but the thought of eating them really grosses me out, can anyone tell me what they taste like, and can you buy them from a supermarket, or other speciality store in Melbourne, Australia.
2006-08-03 16:27:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
uuhh...you're better off getting them in a restaurant where they cook it for you. It tastes like calamari. Just don't think about it...dump it in your mouth chew and swallow. If Australians can eat ostriches, you can eat snails!
2006-08-03 16:31:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What Do Snails Taste Like
2016-10-21 12:58:43 · answer #2 · answered by bruyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tried snails over 30 years ago in Okinawa. They have large purplish snails the size of a large man's fist. I thought they didn't have much flavor and were like chewing a large booger. Rather gross! Don't know about French escargot.
Most snails for eating come from China anymore.
2006-08-03 16:37:39 · answer #3 · answered by expatmt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I can't tell you where in Australia to get them, but I'm pretty sure that you will find them in a supermarket. However, they will be canned and those aren't as great as fresh ones. fresh ones you can find at fish markets or Vietnamese or Chinese markets. They are really very good and have a chewy texture when cooked, They can be cooked a variety of ways except fried.
Sauteed in garlic butter, boiled and made into a pickled sort of broth, or stewed and served with rice, they are very tasty. There's a particular kind from the ocean called whelks, they're awesome.
2006-08-03 20:05:18 · answer #4 · answered by somebrowning 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
several supermarkets her in the us sell them, why i don't know but they do and also specialty markets so there is no reason to think australia won't...do a web search... a friend of mine ate snails once said they didn't have much of a taste but were real rubbery to chew...doesn't sound worth the money to me....and consider this if the french like it it must be bad
2006-08-03 16:32:00 · answer #5 · answered by hell_in_a_handbasket 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a bet I tried snails a couple of month's ago.
I do not know what snot taste like but I have heard that is what they taste like.
I live in Perth and I know you can buy cans of snails in your supermarkets like coles or woolies.
They were revolting.
Stay with Maccers.
2006-08-03 16:45:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snails taste about the way you'd think they would.
Really gross.
Who can understand the french anyway?
2006-08-03 16:32:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe check out any french restaurants. i know my daughter had some snails in melbourne but she was about 3 and they were out of the garden :)
2006-08-03 16:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by gonetotallymad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in my state (ie Sarawak), which is in the east of malaysia, esp eaten by the dayaks (that's an ethnic group) we do eat snails and they're pretty nice, cooked wit tempoyak (i cnt explain wht tht is, but it comes from a fruit, sort of pickled) and the snails meal is cooked soupy, its nothing like the french eating escargots but i personally think this is one nice traditional meal which i would recommend to tourists/foreigners
2006-08-03 17:17:53 · answer #9 · answered by spoiledshirl12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have eating SNAILS, IGUANAS, MONKEYS, THE HEAD OF THEM, IN SOUPS, snakes, ARMADILLOS.
SNAILS TASTE LIKE NOTHING, they are FRIED, i do not know how to describe the taste, sweet, but tough. they are good with JAMAICAN RUM, and lime. also i have eating, TURTLE, EGGS, they are soft. with TEQUILA THEY ARE GOOD specially RAW.
I grew up in the JUNGLES, IF YOU remember TARZAN i was the real life TARZAN BOY. OK so you do not believe me, i have nothing to lie, for, WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE AMAZON OR RAIN FORREST, you eat just about what ever is in front of you. even HUMANS.
2006-08-03 16:34:18 · answer #10 · answered by litehmusicdj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋