Garden slugs

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  2 July 2012     16:15181090
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  i have had a lot fewer than normally so far this summer, now we have these to look forward to.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167558/Spanish-slugs-munching-gardens-weather-creates-perfect-environment.html
• Guest 756

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  2 July 2012     19:42181120
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  Time to get the salt pot out....NO BRIAN, not to season them first, yuk!!!!
• Guest 698

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  2 July 2012     19:57181122
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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/5556313/Eat-slugs-in-tomato-sauce-says-television-chef-Hugh-Fearnley-Whittingstall.html
  
  No comment. No wonder his nickname is Hugh Fearlessly-Eats-it-all.
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• Brian Dixon

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  2 July 2012     20:25181125
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  lesley,i will pass on the slugs,you can salt as much as like.
  
  but i've got snails digging in,seem to like my spud pots had to dig a few out in the last couple of days.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  2 July 2012     20:31181130
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  brian
  
  some compassion is required here, a slug is just a homeless snail.
  
  you don't even have to shell it before cooking.
• Brian Dixon

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  2 July 2012     20:33181131
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  howard,they are slimy little buggers,let the french have them,with extra salt and a splash of viniger.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  3 July 2012     11:27181213
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  you would have been in your element this morning brian, they were out in force at the top of my road.
  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
• Guest 656

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  3 July 2012     11:34181220
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  Enough there for lunch, dinner and evening supper too
• Brian Dixon

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  3 July 2012     16:16181252
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  the same up here howard,to epidemic proportions.
• Guest 663

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  3 July 2012     17:32181257
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  o no one of the chaps at work cleared his garden, put the rubbish in his car over night and hey ho in the morning the little critters had made themselfs at home.