SNAILS

Worry not, TO - no cane toads here! Just thought it might make 'em useful for a change! And it would give the Aussies something else to export apart from sheep, crummy beer and bad jokes about whingeing Poms!!!

 

Now that's an idea- a pet cane toad- still it would probably just eat the other frogs and toads....

 

Walnut,

Your hobbies concern me!

Yep, cane toads are a big problem but fortunately haven't crossed the border into WA - yet. It's amazing to think they were introduced without anyone actually researching whether they could jump high enough to eat their prey.

Another point of interest is that Castelmaine XXXX and Fosters were rarely served in any of the places I worked in or visited over nine years. They keep the decent stuff for themselves!

TO

 

Hyla - didn't know about the poor frogs. I'll have to put them onto my list of things not to eat on principle or otherwise, which includes veal, rabbits, horses and the dreaded Andouille

 

Ah - but if you can afford it, the local veal and lamb here are raised "under the mother" as they say - milk-fed and naturally reared. And utterly, utterly delicious. If you want to pay twenty quid for a leg of lamb!

But andouillettes? Only chitterlings in a sausage! My Dad was a baker and pork butcher, and sometimes brought a "set" of chitterlings home. He used to squeeze 'em out round the rose trees before he washed them. Neighbours weren't always too impressed!!!

 

T&O it used to be V B that seemed to be the favourite beer,there's a lot of desert to cross before those cane toads get to W A but you never know for them hitch hiking.

 

do you want mine as well

 

Make money from your snails!!!
I saw this little item when googling and in view of all the GC members that have so many snails,
I thought this was a useful idea.


"I was happily eating my oats yesterday morning in front of the telly, when I almost choked. nothing wrong with my oats, nor with my mastication technique. It was the information on t.v. selling SNAIL GEL. Apparently snails produce something that helps them repair broken shells and other damage. People who worked on snail farms (I want a snail farm please!) had unusually smooth and beautiful hands. So they put snail slime in a jar and are selling it to give you a gorgeous skin. It heals acne, scars, blemishes, stretch marks. They even had video clips of a person rubbing a snail on his hands�....ew!"