Delicious Or Disgusting? Spain's Biggest Snail-Eating Festival
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- In Lleida, 160 km north of Barcelona, there's a culinary weekend festival devoted entirely to the humble snail. Three days, around a million snails, and 200,000 snail gourmands - and then endless grilled snails, boiled snails, snail stew, snail rice, snails with sausage or other meat... 102 snail clubs or 'penyas' gather together at the festival site to sample the shelled gastropods. Lleida's snail festival is an age-old tradition, and was revived after the Franco dictatorship. In the past, the slimy creatures - known locally as 'caracol' - were considered peasant fare, but today they're viewed as a delicacy.
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In Vietnam we love snails! We cook them in coconut milk, steam them, grill them with lemongrass. We usually dip them in fish sauce! Delicious! I want to go to Spain now and taste these! ❤️
In portugal we boil them with vegetables and spices making a kind of snail soup but eat only the snails
I didn't even watch the video before thinking "Everyday is a snail festival in Hanoi" lol. Vietnam sets the bar pretty high!
We have them in italy with garlic, parsley, olive oil, etc. We accompany them with beer. So good, wish I could try the ones in Vietnam! ❤️
Difference is in vietnam sea or water snails are eaten.. here land snails🤮🤮
If you go please sample every different clubs recipe and report back!😅
Land scallops! Snails are delicious and everyone should give them a try! I love them braised with butter, herbs, and wine. 🐌😋
In Africa we LOVE ❤ snails. Especially with tasty spicy pepper soup 🤪. But we don't cook them with the shell
Not southern africa
They are essentially mollusks of the land.
moroccan snails cooked in the most flavorful herbs and spice is my favorite. i drink the broth because of the herb and spice
Can you guys come hop over to my garden? Those damn snails are eating all my vegetables.. :((
I've never had snails, but I've always wanted to!
I don't understand why some people find this disgusting (I know - no one commented like that so far, but I am sure many people think that way). I mean people are totally fine eating sausages - a mixture of meat, ground to indefinable texture and stuffed back into the original intestine of the animal. So, other cultures - other eating habits. That's it.
I mean it’s basically the same thing as scallops
Snails, clams, mussels, abalone, squid, octopus
They’re all mollusks
Because some people raised in a hyperindustrialized food supply system have become squeamish about certain foods they've never seen yet do not have the basic common decency to respect the culinary traditions of those who are different than them.
@@sam510938764
Beautifully said
Sometimes I find excrement in a snail so I kinda repulsed by it
I just don't like molluscs.
SE Asians be like.. so we celebrate this festival every weekend 😀
Greek here, snails were a delicacy to my ancestors.
I m from Morocco its one of my favourite
In Peru we eat the marine one in ceviche sometimes or in a paella like dish, it has a nice texture
these snails are way better than the well known french escargot, which is usually very chewy and rubbery. people who haven't tried them please do. you will be amazed
not sure they are better but different
@@BlurXx59 well, at least better than the big escargot snails
Great presentation.
I respect the craft although I haven’t tried eating a snail
Ohhhh it's time to make some of these.
I'm ridiculously squeamish when it comes to my food, but well prepared snails are just lovely (I have only eaten them in Spain and France; I know other countries are also very fond of this ugly looking delicacy).
I love snails! It's really yummy! 😋
Tried them when i went to paris they where beautiful 😍
In vietnamese we love snails too. But we don't eat land snails but only river and sea snails.
I honestly dont know why some ppl find eating snails is 😱 .Its a delicacy . But As far as i know ,in Vietnam we only eat river and sea snails I dont think we eat land snails
Land Snails would require a period of 'Cleansing' in some clear water pond.
Uncultured swine, that's why.
This snails are different than the snail you know
i haven't eaten snails as much I'd like - and they're plentiful, too.
Snails are just epic and delicious
The way Portugese serve snails is the best in the whole world!
Os catalãs são melhores. Humildade irmão português!
Irmã! ;)
No
@@espectaculosloar4495Nothing coming from Cataluña can be good. Only garbage.
OH God! How many Snails have I killed, not knowing they were EDIBLE! Lord forgive my Ignorance.
The next story is on the actual farming of snails please.
In northeast India snail is one of the favourite food...
I tried snails a few times, not bad. But I still prefer their marine counterparts.
I would love to get over the cringe factor and enjoy snails.
It's totally ridiculous how the mind plays tricks on us.
I mean, for example I'm terrified of spiders ... But love eating crabs (which are underwater spiders, if u think about it!)
That's true. Cognitive dissonance 😁
Crabs are not spiders, they are separated by >500 million years of evolution
Spiders are not edible bugs
god bless
Chinese likes abalone and if you ask me, snails are cheaper, easier to eat and equally tasty
I used to cook about 20 orders of snails everyday escargot. We had special plates for the snails each plate had indentations for each snail i would put a little garlic compound herb butter on each snail then put them under the broiler served with from puff pastry made by a real baker who happens to practice witchcraft as a hobby.
It’s ok as long as it’s not slimey.
እነዝህ ኮ ናቸው እራሳቸው እንደዝህ አይነት አስቀያም ነገር እየበሉ አድስ በሽታ ያመጣሉ ?
Nice
And they add conjak ...come on man !!!
They eat a lot snails in china too, not a surprise
Ooooh and I haven't had breakfast yet...
Snails are cooked ALIVE
So are oysters and mussels.
Tbh I love eating snails lol
Steam snail with humans grill hips is a best combination for Sunday morning 💯
🇪🇸Freaks eating 🐌😂😂😂😂
Us Greeks eat them too, they're quite a popular delicacy, dating back to ancient times.
Corona
We don't eat them raw.
I’m surprised these people r not dead
Eating cooked snails won't kill you.
Both land and river snails are delicious if cooked right. Just had some bad snails last night at a French restaurant. It was fishy and ruined the entire dish for me.
Why are you,all yelling like savages … two year old mindsets
I'll just have Oxygen, thanks!
Oxygen is not enough to sustain you.
You need water, and food as well.
My only question is...............WHY? If you have to season the snails to mask the taste of the snails, why actually eat them? What about that nasty slime trail that snails leave behind them?
Greek here, we do not eat them raw.
is taste normal disgusting you decide
I'll just have coffee, thanks!
I am so glad we trashed them at the Spanish Armada and at Trafalgar so the world doesn’t fall into the fashion of eating snails. Britain single handedly saved a ton of snail and frog population from her southern neighbours
So glad the rest in the world, although under british influence, never adopted the fashion of eating fish and chips, toast sandwich, and all other kinds of bland, soggy and overcooked "foods". Imagine the whole world eating like you were under military rationing every day of your goddamn life
@@javierzapatersanjuan1506 look it’s not rocket science
>food
>not snails and frogs
>win
@@mdtrw to be honest, i do consider snails and frogs a valid choice if you are starving. Also, considering those animals unedible and then consuming literal garbage like haggis or marmite is a bit hipocritical. I do not understand why do you have so much comptemt for these animals while probably enjoying squid, shrimps (practically sea cockroaches) or sea snails, maybe even considering they are fine cuisine. I do not see that many differences between them both, so I don't understand your selective disgust at food you haven't even tried.
@@javierzapatersanjuan1506 I just don’t like the french
@@mdtrw Fair point, but these people are spaniards, not french
you should eat more dogs, people
Why?
We do not eat canines.