Ancient Humans Cooked And Ate Giant Land Snails Around 170,000 Years Ago

IFLScience (change your ****in' name!) ^ | April 4, 2023 | Russell Moul

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Lots of "diet and cuisine" topics this week, more coming in a few.

[Red Badger]

So, the French people are a lot older than I thought...............

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Enough butter and garlic...

[BigEdLB]

[Red Badger]

Would you like them rare or well done, Monsieur ?.............

[yesthatjallen]

IFLScience (change your ****in' name!) ^ |

Is that really his name?

[Monkey Face]

Enough butter and garlic...

And they would still taste like buttery garlicky rubber.

'Face

;o]

[MayflowerMadam]

Interesting, but do we really need to know this? Aren’t there more important issues to focus on?

[Tupelo]

Frogs have been eating snails for a long long time.
They call it “escargot” to make it sound high toned.
Still snails though.

[chaosagent]

Interesting, but do we really need to know this? Aren’t there more important issues to focus on?

What?

Whether or not they had Creme Brulee or Souffles for dessert, afterward?

[GaltAdonis]

"... taste like buttery garlicky rubber. ..."

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But the pertinent question is - Do (did) they taste better than octopus?

41 years ago I ate octopus for the first (and last) time at a Greek restaurant
on South Street in Philadelphia.

They were Very bad.
Multiple people have told me that: 'They must have been cooked incorrectly.'.

I counter with: 'The mistake was cooking and serving them AT ALL.'.

You stated snails were like: 'garlicky rubber'.
Octopus gave the impression of pencil erasers.

I have no desire to research this matter any further...

[Telepathic Intruder]

Humans also ate a lot of insects and insect larvae. That’s how we probably became meat-eaters in the first place. In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey proto-humans just started eating pigs one day. That’s not how it works. If your digestive system isn’t geared for meat-eating, you can’t digest it.

[Carriage Hill]

Reason #1 why that branch went extinct.

[jerod]

So much easier to catch when they can’t run.

[Sirius Lee]

Feeds a big family.

[Alas Babylon!]

Cooked Nigerian Peppered Giant Land Snails:

Cote d'Ivoire Giant Land Snail Stew:

I'd try either.

[Larry Lucido]

George: No, no, Hey I’ll get it. What’s in the BIG salad?

Jerry: Big lettuce, big carrots, giant land snails, tomatoes like volleyballs.

[Repeal The 17th]

I am not surprised that early humans ate whatever food was available.
I am a bit surprised that early humans were “cooking” their food
170,000 years ago.

[momincombatboots]

Lol…. Mythical nonsense.