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Back in the day, like way back, the Roman big shots thought snails were a delicacy. And it isn’t just the Romans, countries like France, Spain, Italy, India, and the USA have jumped on the Escargot train.
Here are just a few escargot/snail facts you may not know.
It is believed that snails for eating were brought to the United States (California) in the 1850’s.
The French consume 40,000 metric tons of snails each year.
May 24th is National Escargot Day.
Heliculture is the science of growing snails for food.
Snails are almost blind, and they don’t have any aural systems meaning that they can’t hear anything.
American restaurants serve about 1 billion snails annually.
Like most molluscs, escargot is high in protein and low in fat content (if cooked without butter). It is estimated that escargot is 15% protein, 2.4% fat and about 80% water.
Even the lazy sloth and the lumbering tortoise have nothing on the snail’s complete lack of speed. Some snails clock in at 0.0004 miles an hour.
Research has shown that some snail slime can be used to treat stomach ulcers.