Garden slugs
- 2 July 2012 16:15181090i 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 - 2 July 2012 19:42181120Time to get the salt pot out....NO BRIAN, not to season them first, yuk!!!!
- 2 July 2012 19:57181122http://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.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson - Brian Dixon
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2 July 2012 20:25181125lesley,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. - 2 July 2012 20:31181130brian
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 20:33181131howard,they are slimy little buggers,let the french have them,with extra salt and a splash of viniger.
- 3 July 2012 11:27181213you would have been in your element this morning brian, they were out in force at the top of my road.
- 3 July 2012 11:34181220Enough there for lunch, dinner and evening supper too
- Brian Dixon
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3 July 2012 16:16181252the same up here howard,to epidemic proportions. - 3 July 2012 17:32181257o 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.
