For lunch, I can't help but contort my face in disgust when I saw our lunch would be snails. The small native snails you cook in a pot with milk.
Ugh. I mean, the French eat escargot and all but please- the thought of eating a creature that's been crawling on all kinds of dirt- I'd rather say I'm a vegetarian! (No offense to escargot-lovers!)
Anyway, I watched as my mom and her gay guy friend poke the snail out of their shells with their forks. I felt all squirmish inside. Someone save me. My pig-of-a-sister loves them too. I really shouldn't complain- we Filipinos eat all kinds of "delicacy" stuff- like century eggs, boiled duck egg with the dead still-developing ducklings inside, cow guts, cooked pig blood with the guts, grilled chicken guts, bats, ox tongue - but snails are a different matter. I eat things that used to walk or swim - but crawl on the ground leaving a trace of slime? Urgh...
Someone pass me a barf bag. Please.
dennypoos
I saw aprogramme about those Eggs and couldnt believe it, still we all do our own thing I suppose.
As a Filipino, do you speak Tagalog?