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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.
Evidently there is something wrong with some address of a purported Conch-L subscriber, purportedly at timmy.inbox.lv, as I also received such an error message. I do not know why the message goes to the person sending the mail rather than to the list manager. I did get a scam message from an address like that recently, so perhaps it represents a fradulent subscription attempt that was not fully successful.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
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That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at Droitgate Spa
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