The skunk is dead....

[snapdragen]

Alright! This is going into each or your permanent records! I'm keeping my eye on all of you....

[teigyr]

Alright! This is going into each or your permanent records! I'm keeping my eye on all of you....

Does this mean I won't get into college?

google search for slug

Australian doctors have issued a bizarre warning about eating slugs after a student contracted a potentially fatal brain disease when he swallowed some of the slimy gastropods for a dare. Advising those with a taste for escargot to stick to reputable French restaurants, the medicos said there had been numerous cases of meningitis since 1971 caused by people eating garden snails or slugs.

One child died after eating snails and one patient contracted meningitis after eating lettuce covered with snail slime, a report in the Medical Journal of Australia due to be published Monday said.

Sydney University parasitologist John Walker said the most recent case was a Sydney student who ate two slugs from the garden as a dare for 20 dollars (13.80 US).

Walker, said tests found the man's meningitis was caused by a worm normally seen in rat lungs but carried as larvae in slugs and snails.

The worm caused the brain lining to swell, forcing doctors to drain fluid from inside the man's skull.

He was hospitalised for 17 days and it was five months before he could resume his studies.

Walker reported the man's friend also swallowed some slugs as part of the dare but promptly vomited them up, foregoing his 20 dollars.

[Zen]

...stick to reputable French restaurants...

As opposed to irreputable French restaurants?

[Trek420]

As opposed to irreputable French restaurants?

Did you know that abalone are related to snails? And much better with garlic I think.

[Wahine]

I had bar-b-qued oysters the other day with butter and garlic. Yum. Being a prarie girl we don't get too many sea oysters, only prarie oysters and those don't taste nearly as good.

[Trek420]

I had bar-b-qued oysters the other day with butter and garlic. Yum. Being a prarie girl we don't get too many sea oysters, only prarie oysters and those don't taste nearly as good.

I've never had prarie oysters and don't intend to. This is my favorite place to get oysters from around here. Most of the oysters you'll get around Pt. Reyes are from Johnson's Oyster Farm.

http://pointreyesvisions.com/NewFile...n_scallop.html

One of my favorite jaunts is to go to Drakes Beach, the little park concession there has fried oysters or in nice weather they BBQ outside.

Then go to the Pt Reyes lighthouse for a little extreme stair climb Sometimes they close the stairs if the wind's too strong.

[crazycanuck]

Mmmm..Bluff Oysters..mmmmmm..

What's wrong wit saying howdy? HOwdeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..

And I thought i wasn't going to visit this thread..oh dear me....

Have I told you how funny it is to watch Kookabura's mating? *snort* Their call whilst doing the hunka hunka burnin love thing is classic..*snort*

C

[Zen]

Did you know that abalone are related to snails? And much better with garlic I think.

That makes me think of conch fritters, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I believe I'll take a pass on those prairie oysters though, thank you

[maillotpois]

OOOOOHHH - Conch fritters!! Yum! Spent a couple of weeks in the Bahamas a few years ago.....

I will pass on the oysters in any form, prairie, ocean, BBQ, raw, Rockefeller, whatever... BLECH.