To make snail categorization even more vague, there is no specific species of escargots. Any edible snail found on land can be given the French name. No wonder escargot is one of the most elusive ...

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Most snails live between 2 to 5 years, but some in captivity have lived over 10 to 15 years. In France, the word “escargot” refers to edible snails and also the famous appetizer made from them.

WE were keeping some snails (Helix pomatia} without food, under a bell-jar with a wide tubulure at the top ; in the tubulure was a cork bearing a thermometer. We found that the snails ate the cork ...