Oh yes, I forgot about the famous Austrian slug specialist, whose name I am
not going to mention here, who bites the tail end off the animal, and turns
it inside out to see the genitalia in order to determine the species.
I think I'll need some ethanol-containing drink to help washing my mouth!
Michael

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> Auftrag von bivalve
> Gesendet: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:13 PM
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> Betreff: Edible; Failure on conch-L?
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> Lovell, M. S. 1884 (2nd ed.). The Edible Mollusca of Great
> Britain and Ireland with Recipies for cooking them. Available
> from http://gallica.bnf.fr/
>
> The only entry for slugs in the index to Lovell is to the claim
> that "Pliny also recommends [for headache] a plaster of slugs,
> cut up and pounded, and applied to the forehead." (p. 219)
>
> Dr. Joe Carter reports that one of the large gastrochaenids
> produces an unpleasantly peppery taste; I think Gray also
> reported this.  Joe was trying to hold a specimen in his mouth
> while using both hands and was not eating it.
>
> William Buckland, a noted early paleontologist, was also famous
> for bringing new meaning to the word omnivore.  He probably tried
> slugs, but I do not know where one would find out for sure.
>