Damn! Can you imagine some restaurant serving one of these up as an appetizer? Strange things trying to get into the Lower 48.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ham-size-african-snails-seized-lax-serious-threat-n155771
First thing that sprang to mind when I read the story was Bio Meat:Nectar.
But it’s essentially large Escargot. Strange food? Try Haggis, Cow Brain, or Rocky Mountain Oysters.
Nothing good comes from Africa.
Ok, why was someone trying to bring these things into the US?
High dollar pet trade or cuisine most likely.
Not sure if I would ever want to try to eat something that can break down exterior paint or stucco as a food source. When you add the fact that they can carry meningitis…Ugh, maybe they were trying to create their own horror movie.
Bah, where’s your sense of adventure? Lol
Holy shit! “Look at that “S” car go!”
Reminds me of the expression… The problem with Africa is the Africans.
Yer slippin’ Dave!
It’s too late. We already have them.
Federal authorities theorized they were smuggled into the country by practitioners of Ifa Orisha, a Santeria-like African cult whose leader, Charles L. Stewart of Hialeah, urged congregants to drink the snail’s juice.
“Religious practitioners from Nigeria have been known to use these snails in their religious practices,” agriculture department spokesman Mark Fagan said. “They are used to foretell a practitioner’s future health, prosperity and spirituality.”
Some local medical buildings already have huge problems with them.
Great honk! Giant hermaphroditic snails that diddle themselves, eat lungworm-infested rat feces when they aren’t eating your house, transmit incurable meningitis, and kill your dog.
I can’t wait for the first hard frost. You folks that live in the petri-dish of the nation are insane.
One can help but notice the strong African related element in that synopsis which was alluded to earlier…
Wtf over
No it’s that we allow every 02 thief from third world shit holes into our Shining City upon a Hill to trash the place.
And it all started with the Irish!
Never knew the Irish smuggled in invasive species’. And to think here all this time I thought they gave us song and drink!
Just what we need. Another Asian carp, Kudzu, Killer bee, Zebra Mussel, Fire ant, Burmese Python, Cane toad, Emerald Ash Borer… The list goes on forever.
:lol: Now, that’s funny!!!
Killer bees, Ebola, diseased snails, hurricanes, voodoo, tribalism, etc. again nothing good comes from Africa. They can even keep their DeBeers diamonds and krugerands.
Wait till some dipshit releases these in a tropical US environment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9001000/9001866.stm