eating slugs

[hso]

After a nice rainy spring day there are literally gallons of slugs slithering around. Could you take them as found and prepare them (saute with a little butter and garlic) and eat them?

 

[JD Mandrell]

I asked this very same question to a friend who is an evolutionary biologist, because where I live we do not have "snails" so I wondered if maybe these slugs that we have in abundance would be a good "survival" food. He says that while they may be "safe" to eat if cooked properly, the reason you don't already see indiginous people eating them like they do snails is that the taste is beyond horrible, and the nutritional value is not very high.

 

[Big-Target]

According to Christopher Nyerges, before you cook the slugs. Make sure they're in a pan of corn meal for 24-48 hour(schange the cormealevery 12 hours). They consume the cornmeal and that purges the slugs body of any toxic garden chemicals it has been exposed to.


BON-APPETITE!!!!

 

[BOVER]

What if you don't have cornmeal.....Are other things that they eat toxic besides garden chemicals? What about other insects? Anyone have any other information?

 

[Pentlatch]

WTF?? They feed on dogshit fer christsake GACK!! :barf:

 

[Big-Target]

I don't know if they eat dogshit??? Most of the slugs I've seen have been on leaves, in the garden. Still, if their system isn't "purged", YOU WILL:barf: :barf: :barf: !!!!!

 

[Warriorsociologist]

Slugs huh...?

Well, if I can find slugs, I can probably find other things more 'appetizing'... I have eaten some crazy things

, but I would wait until the very last before I tried my luck with slugs.

Good question though!!!