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.


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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