I'm new and a bit of a quiet one,don't have much free time, but have enjoyed reading you.

Welcome!

Enjoy reading, don't feel you have to chip in until or unless you want to, but we'll draw you out of your shell eventually

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Once you've been nicely cooked in garlic butter.

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I hope the French are piling up all the used snail shells in middens here and there. It is good to honor old traditions.

Thanks, I'm simmering away. Not planning any prohibited behaviour mind you.

I dunno, I've never had them with the shells on (or in France, now I come to think of it), only cooked individually in one of those frying pan thingies.

I know that you can buy empty coquille st-jacques shells for when you want to pretend that your frozen shellfish was fresh off the beach that morning. Perhaps there's a market in second-hand snail shells too.

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Oh absolutely. You can buy bagfulls of them.

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And you act like comsumer society is a bad thing...

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