Have you ever eaten frogs' legs or snails?

Yes, eaten them. I didn't approach the idea that they would taste horrendous. They both tasted very nice, actually.

What R1 said.

I had escargot (snails) while visiting Reims, France. They actually weren’t as disgusting as I expected—there was no slime and they weren’t soft or mushy.

I think I once ate a snail, best not to think about it when it's happening.

OP: Yes and yes.

Frog legs a few times. Tjey didn't "taste like chicken" like some claim. I can't get over the look of them so I've passed on them dozens of times since those first few samplings.

Never had snails/escargot. I've seen it prepared by chefs on TV and they make it sound delicious.

I nibbled on it once—and ended up with a frog in my throat.

Whither hell is offered frogs legs dozens of times?

^who the

Snails (escargots), yes. I don't think they have much of a flavor, but they do have a nice chewy / slightly crunchy texture. Like mushrooms. Very similar to abalone.

Frogs' legs, haven't tried. I don't like eating stuff off the bone, like chicken wings. So, I won't go out of my way to try frogs' legs.

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I tried both and they were okay. I liked the escargot better then the frogs’ legs.

R8, at company functions, buffets, weddings, family gatherings, dinner parties, food trucks, restaurants from fine dining to fast food.

I had snails twice at a restaurant that served them in their shells in an herbed butter sauce. I liked them a lot, but it was probably mostly the sauce.

Yes, it's the garlic butter sauce and bread that make escargots so good, R14.

I've had frog legs. No, they don't really taste like chicken. The texture is somewhat similar, and the flavor is light, but you can tell it's a water creature from the taste.

How so? What does a water creature taste like?

[quote] Yes, it's the garlic butter sauce and bread that make escargots so good, [R14].

Yes, next time I’m going to order without the 🐌.

I’ve also eaten frogs’ fallopian tubes

I’ve had both. Love them both. Farm raised frog’s legs had less of a “gamey” taste to me than wild caught ones. Escargot don’t have much of a flavor on their own - as posted above it’s the garlic/parsley butter or other seasoning that kicks them up a notch.

I like frog legs, but I agree that they don't taste like chicken. They often have the consistency of chicken wings, but I feel like they taste like if it was possible to have "fish wings."

Then why bother eating snails if it's just the garlic butter sauce you're after?

Having seen the escargot variety eating dog shit, I couldn't contemplate eating them.

Because that’s a vessel to deliver the delicious sauce into your mouth. Just like pasta is the vessel to deliver spaghetti sauce into your mouth.

Are you just gonna shovel butter garlic sauce into your face hole, R22, ya fuckin pig?

[quote] Then why bother eating snails if it's just the garlic butter sauce you're after?

It's the texture, R22. But you could probably use mushrooms, instead.

You can use mushrooms or Jello for the vagatarians.

Yes I've had both. Would probably have escargot again (a petit cafe in Paris)... Not frog legs.

I always have an escargot appetizer when I’m In Paris. It’s a nice treat that is rarely offered in the States anymore.

I have enjoyed escargots. I agree you really need garlic butter or some other sauce to give it flavor, but the texture was not what I expected.

I think the description of frogs legs as being like "fish legs" is a good one--they don't smell fishy in the least, though, and they have an enjoyable meaty taste the way a tuna or swordfish steak does.

I’ve had escargot many times. It’s one of my favorite foods—when done right.

R27 why would vegetarians, excuse me "vagatarians" eat Jello when it's made from animals?

Anyone have pigeon? For about 5 minutes, it was all the rage in France. Too gamey for me.

I've had wilkes, I believe they were referred to as sea snails. Love them; we used to pick them and dig for clams every time we were at the beach, when I was young, land crabs as well. Now I'm allergic to all of it, so no more.

[quote] at company functions, buffets, weddings, family gatherings, dinner parties, food trucks, restaurants from fine dining to fast food.

You lie!

Snails are like lobster, they're just butter delivery systems.

I bet snails wish they had frog legs.

I was blessed with parents who liked to try almost everything, and I had to taste everything once, even if I didn’t finish the dish. I became a “vagatarian” when I was 12 years old. And yes, I tasted snails and frog legs, and neither was worth it.

The garlic sauce and bread combo is what makes snails taste like anything at all, and I also found the frog legs to taste like a mix of chicken and fish, but very mild. Nothing I would ever eat again (especially as a “vagatarian”).

The low-end gap-toothed canned-food provincials here.

How in the world can anyone reach adulthood without having had frog legs (delicious) and escargot (delicious)?

R38 is a cunt. As she is proud to let us know. "Neither was worth it" is an absurd explanation for eating, since the cost was all on the frogs' and snails' part. All she did was shovel it into her mouth so she could spend a life not realizing she didn't have them well-prepared. Escargot are not just prepared in butter and garlic, for heaven's sake. Proud vulgarians.

As for rarity, frog legs are sold breaded and fried, at least, at many of the tavern restaurants here, much less in good restaurants. Escargot are less prevalent, but every major grocery chain carries at least the Cornu aspersum type and a decent European/fine food shop has the other three species or so. Asian shops have another type. Four restaurants within a mile of me have them on their menus.

Oh, but the twats here will eat a McDonalds burger hashed out of 100 animals or more per disk.

And what vulgar cuntry are you from, R39?

Nope. Never.

I have had both. Snail are very good, a mild fish taste and chewy consistancy. Frog Legs taste like chicken meat.

R39, may I interject and point out that your mother was a cunt? She should have taught you better manners while you were shoveling your escargot in your dirty mouth.

I've eaten frog legs and attempted to eat escargot. I was taught to try everything before making up my mind. I'd be willing to eat frog legs again: they have a rather neutral flavor.....but I wouldn't search them out. I couldn't get past the texture of escargot, which seemed too rubbery (ditto octopus).

Yes. Escargots are mostly butter and garlic, so what could be bad?! Frogs' legs are like chicken wings.

[quote] Yes. Escargots are mostly butter and garlic, so what could be bad?

The texture.

Never frogs lever - they have never been on any menu at a restaurant that I've been to. However, snails plenty of times - absolutely love them.

I've had escargot a few times and as already mentioned by others above, the garlic butter is what makes the dish delicious.

I've had fried frogs legs at Chinese restaurants and the taste is a strange cross between chicken and fish. It was like eating chicken wings, but with a hint of the sea.

Why only eat frog legs. That’s so wasteful. Do you throw the rest of the body away? Can you not eat the torso, arms, and head?

I've eaten both. I didn't like the frogs legs very much but the snails were pretty good.

I've also eaten Alligator, Rattlesnake, Yak, Camel, Emu, Ostrich. Elk. Most I ate simply to say I've ate them.

I would never eat frog legs or snails. Just the thought of eating FROG LEGS or SNAILS makes me shudder. I don't think I could ever eat cow tongue, either. A cow's tongue...I just couldn't.

A chef friend in NY made escargot for about 10 of us at a New Year's eve party one year, and they were awesome. She just sauteed them in butter and garlic and we all ate massive amounts. I'm sure there were other things to eat with them, but I don't remember anything but the snails. They were phenomenal.

After that I wanted to I went to several good restaurants trying to find some I liked as well, and despite paying something like $50 for an appetizer and $100 for entrees, none of the four or five famous places I went made them even half as well as my friend.

I could have bought them raw and learned to make them myself, but I was starting to think of them as gross again, so I never had them again.

Why would you waste money buying them when they’re all around you. There’s tons of snails in my garden that I accidentally step on.

R51, when I was a little kid, my dad liked beef tongue sandwiches, so my mother would buy them and cook them for him. When the timing was right and I happened to be nearby when she was getting ready to cook one, she would chase me around the house with it, trying to lick me with it. I would scream with terror like the little gayling that I was.

R49, certain Asian cultures do eat the whole frog. They throw it whole into a pot and make stew. However, at restaurants catering to the Western palate, having the whole frog carcass on a plate might be an intimidating sight so they just provide the meaty, succulent portion, which are the legs. The rest of the body isn't very meaty and not worth the effort to clean.

Has anyone had frog sashimi?

Froglegs were unimpressive. Snails were amazing!

When I studied in France, a gas station near my dorm sold vacuum packed escargots in the snack section beside sandwiches and quiche. I used to think it was so weird.

I had frogs legs in a fancy restaurant on my last night in France. They looked exactly like little pairs of frogs legs, which I found disconcerting, but they were served in a delicious sauce.

Yes, both..didn't dislike either although the though of both disgusts me. I'd like to know who the first Frenchman was to look at a snail and think.."Dinner!". Same with lobster, crab, clams..tasty enough but how hungry do you have to be to kill, cook and eat these things if they aren't served in a restaurant.

When you're hungry you'll eat anything.

When you're hungry you'll eat anything.

R59, they didn't have restaurants thousands of years ago when people first started eating those things. And in fact those people most likely did know what it was like to be hungry for days at a time.

R59, they didn't have restaurants thousands of years ago when people first started eating those things. And in fact those people most likely did know what it was like to be hungry for days at a time.

Really, r6? I find frog legs very much taste like chicken, gamier and tougher and with a sort of fish taste as well, pretty much like r48 described.

I like frog's legs and am sad that the local places in town that used to serve them are no longer open.

Yes.

No.

I would order fried frog legs at this seafood restaurant in Duluth that my dad would take me to. It's been so many years I don't even recall what they tasted like, but I ordered them more than once.

We eat snails occasionally. The last time I had them was in Paris. They were lovely.

r51/r54 The only disconcerting thing about eating a tongue sandwich is figuring out when to stop chewing.

I told this tale of woe a few years ago on this board, because it was horrifying and sad at the same time:

My husband(before we'd met) had been invited to a dinner party and the hostess was serving snails as an appetizer, everyone was anticipating them because her menu was known beforehand. All the guests had arrived, and while they were having drinks, the soon-to-be put upon hostess slipped the tray of prepared snails into the oven.

After some time there came from the kitchen metallic clattering and crunching sounds, to be followed by smoke which set off the alarm. The hostess didn't realize, and obviously hadn't been told, that the snails were alive when she bought them, and so they needed to be parboiled before completing the recipe.

So here they are, these poor cephalopods, smeared with garlic butter, resting on a hot bed of rock salt trying desperately to escape an inferno. They tried sliming UP the oven walls only to fall back onto the rock salt, hence the weird sounds. Fortunately, snails don't have vocal cords, I mean, can you imagine? Someone had the presence of mind to remove the tray from the oven, tip it into the sink and run cold water over everything.

Once they got the hostess calmed down(she had been screaming at one point) most of the guests left(they all went to a local diner because of course no food had been served), two remained to clean up and to make sure their hostess would be OK.

The tale circulated for years, even outside that circle of friends. IIRC, poor Agnes never gave another dinner party.

My parents bought a farm house in Normandy, France in the late 80s. It had a big lake stocked with huge carp, which Europeans eat.

Well one day we were at the house and the mayor, who happened to be the village's restaurant owner, called in to say hi.

"Zee last owner allowed me to fish ere. Can I do zat too, please?" he said.

"Yes, sure." Wanting to keep on the right side of him we said. Knowing the lake was well stocked with fish.

Anyway we returned to the house a few weeks later, and went down to the restaurant for a meal one night.

"Ahhh, excellent! Come in! Zit down! Have anything on the menu you want on the house!"

Well we were a bit shocked, but we went with it, and after a delicious meal, we said "Why all of this free hospitality? There's no reason to thank us like this. There are hardly any fish gone!"

"Non, non!" came the reply. "Les grenouilles! Les grenouilles!"

The frogs! The frogs! He'd been collecting them and serving them in his restaurant!

Snails are slippery little suckers.

I've eaten escargot numerous times and it's very good. Has a nice texture and strong, almost peppery flavor.

R38 thinks she has manners.

She's a shaming prancer.

That's all, you tedious, self-congratulatory cunt.

Oh, by the way, you don't recognize a joke post when you see it?

Oh, you wouldn't, would you, cunt?

Only snails, but there was so much garlic butter I couldn’t tell you what they actually taste like. I’d only try frog if I had at a good restaurant in France.

I prefer snails to oysters.

R51, Langue du Boeuf is delish! Ordered it on a whim in France, and found it tender as all get out (not as fabulous as Cerveaux d'Agneau, [Lambs' Brains] however).

R74 the French could make shit taste like heaven.

I would be wary of eating snails and the like. I’ve heard they harbor parasites. Sometimes deadly ones.

I love love love Escargot! Butter, garlic, so good

Snail dishes were a favorite among the Ancient Greek and Roman elite, who believed they possessed aphrodisiac qualities and helped produce semen. Roman snails were raised in enclosures called cochlearia and fattened with sapa (grape syrup) or milk.

The eating of snails was common throughout the Mediterranean, and every region developed its own specialty, like [italic]lumache alla romana,[/italic] braised in tomato paste, or the Cretan [italic]kohli bourbouristi,[/italic] pan-fried in olive oil.

The Romans brought snails to Britain.

Love them in garlic butter. They taste like mushrooms to me.

In France they also eat horse, which would bother me even if I weren't off meat in general. I agree most cultures eat what is most available and that's perfectly understandable.

Snails are very nice.

I have eaten salami that contained horse meat, and fries cooked in horse rennet, and both were delicious.

Permit me to correct an error I made @ r67: Snails are GASTROpods, not CEPHALOpods.

Escargot is delicious.

I have only tried frog legs once and it was utterly disgusting; the texture, the taste, etc. Never again.

R76 Snails can harbor parasites, so that's why they are cooked before eating. There once was a foolish fellow who ate a raw slug on dare.

I've only had snails once as a child, and they were good. I've tried frog legs a couple of times, but they tasted 'swampy' and I didn't enjoy them.

The author Patricia Highsmith has a thing for snails. She didn't EAT them; she kept them as pets! She bred about three hundred snails in her garden at home in Suffolk, England.[30] Highsmith once attended a London cocktail party with a "gigantic handbag" that "contained a head of lettuce and a hundred snails" which she said were her "companions for the evening." What a weird woman. At any rate she wrote a great horror story called "The Quest for Blank Claveringi", a tale about a professor who goes to investigate an island that supposedly harbors giant snails. It's a great story, scary and horrifying.

Escargot once. I would say the experience was like eating little garlic flavored rubber balls.

i can't read through all these posts because the thought alone is disgusting as hell. 1 - i don't like sea/creek food. 2 - i fed these slimey bastards to my family ducks. how could you even turn either of these into something halfway palatable???

Frogs legs are tiny tbh.

It's just like a small ball of rubbery chicken.

You can get horse meat in the meat section, cut into steaks and under plastic wrap (just like beef) in Quebec supermarkets.

Also pig tongues (very small) pickled in jars.

Ate frog legs as a child. Don't remember the taste but was not repulsed. My experience with snails is as above, tasty rubbery bits in garlic and butter sauce.

Liked pickled lamb tongue as a child as well. Can't get pickled lamb tongue nowadays. Those pickled pig tongues were the closest I've come to it in decades.

My Southern grandmother used to eat calves brains with eggs for breakfast.

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Both

Yes my family ate calves brains and eggs for breakfast as well. They looked down on people who ate pig brains however.

Europeans mock North Americans for peanut butter and pumpkin pie but eat the most disgusting swamp creatures and slaughterhouse by-products.

Had escargot many times, and am fond of it, but then again anything in garlic butter tastes good. I’d be willing to try frog legs, preferably fried.

Has anyone eaten jugged hare? Sounds pretty awful, doesn't it? But it was one of the dishes Mr. Creosote orders (along with moules marinières, pâté de foie gras, beluga caviar, Eggs Benedict, a leek tart, frogs' legs amandine and quail's eggs with puréed mushrooms) in the fancy French restaurant in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life."

Yes I have R96.

It's very nice. Basically gamey tasting rabbit in red wine. Very nice on a very cold day.

French restaurants call it Civet Dr Lapin and charge a fortune for it.

R86, I'll have to look into that story. Love Highsmith--esp. the Ripley books.

Only escargots. The sauce/marinade or whatever is nice but the snails themselves I don’t particularly liked. It’s the texture of the meat.

Never had frog's legs. Had snails a few times. Once in Niagara Falls in a nice restaurant overlooking the falls that I don't think is still there. I got them again when I ate at a French restaurant. Haven't had them since I was about 18 though so I forget the taste but I liked them.