seen as a taboo food. In English, edible land snails are commonly called escargot, from the French word for 'snail'. Snails as a food date back to ancient...

word "snail" is used in this most general sense, it includes not just land snails but also numerous species of sea snails and freshwater snails. Gastropods...

considered to be sea snails and sometimes listed as land snails. Sea snails are a very large and diverse group of animals. Most snails that live in salt...

Snail caviar, also known as escargot caviar or escargot pearls, is the fresh or processed eggs of land snails. It is a luxury gourmet speciality produced...

A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name...

cultivation of sea snails, such as whelks. Roasted snail shells have been found in archaeological excavations, an indication that snails have been eaten...

will also consume snail meat. Apple snails and assassin snails will also prey upon ramshorn snails. Good fish roommates for snails include, but are not...

common name garden snail, is a species of land snail in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial...

whose members are commonly known as apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails that includes the mystery snail species. They are aquatic gastropod...

consumption (edible arachnids), either whole or as an ingredient in processed food products such as cheese (Milbenkäse). Arachnids include spiders, scorpions...