Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1901 — Paris and Snails. [ARTICLE]

Paris and Snails.

Some alarm is expressed by certain Paris epicures because the supply of snails of the finest quality seems to be falling off to a serious extent. This apprehension, however, will cause no distress upon an extended scale, as the taste for the deliberate creature that carries his house upon his back has not been worldwide. In fact, it has never gained mufih ground outside of the Latin race, and beyond tjie borders of France itself the number of gourmets who have extolled the snail as a table delicacy of the most desirable sort has not made a long list. But snails are clean feeders. Why should there be anywhere a prejudice against them among the eaters of lobsters and crabs, of sty fed pigs and of the bulging legs of goggle eyed bullfrogs?