Der Schneckenkönig

Hello,

yesterday I learned what a 'Schneckenkoenig' is. I don't know the english term, but the literal translation is king of snails. That are snails with a left-handed shell. Now that I know what they are I suddenly find them everywhere:



Regards
Gyro

 

Gross.

 

Hello,

the French border is near. So it's not uncommon here that better restaurants have escargot on the menu. But I stick with pâté or something like that as an appetizer. Much better than our slimy friends .

Well, you don't want to know...





Regards
Gyro

PS: This guy has a right-handed shell,clearly no king .

 

how do you tell if it's a right handed vs left handed snail?

 

ja

 

I can imagine a snail slithering about to this song...

http://youtu.be/zJTl4EyY_Hk

 

I've always liked snails

 

Hello,

hold the shell so that the little 'pin' in the center of the shell points towards to you, like the one on the plate in the picture above. Now follow the windings from the inner one to the outer ones. If you have to go to the right to follow it's a right-handed snail. If you do the same with the snail shown in the image in posting #1 you will find that you have to go to the left to follow the windings. Most snails of the species used for the escargot are right-handed. I've read that only one in 30000 (others say one in 100k) is left-handed, so they're somewhat special.

Regards
Gyro

 

Hello,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkSN-kqAmxw&list=UUt3QIly_CdcnTtau_7xD5sA

Regards
Gyro

 

Hello,

and suddenly you feel this strange attraction to this slimy little buggers .

Regards
Gyro

 

and here i was hoping it had something to do with papa schlemelhorn and the nice pussy cats.

as for the portland slugfest, i've never gotten around to trying any, though have eaten some bivalves.

i found them annoying when i had a place where i could grow a little garden. i'd get those little six packs of perenial and herb starters.
and get them off to a good start. well i guess the snails are nature's way of selection. because they'd eat four or sometimes five of them.
but then the one or two that survived them, would then take over the garden and possibly the world.

 

^that is one ugly motherfucker .. whatever it is

 

Hello,

uaargh, they are coming to rule the earth...

Regards
Gyro

 

Florida horse conch or something, biggest snail thingy in america

Worlds biggest is an Aussie, Australian Trumpet sea snail, youd know what its shell looks like, but seemingly impossible to find a pic of a live one

 

I have never seen a pohoto such as that....so that is what lives in those conch shells...Amazing, is my thought....remarkable...Life comes in many forms and shapes......I feel for the critter....cannot be an easy life for them.....

 

I saw a fool on acid eat LIVE SLUGS IN HAWAII!!!!

 

LOL.... ....yeah, it is to my eye, too....I could make an analogy, but I am not going there....I don't like to look at those things, either......

Poor conch....sorry, my little love creature.......

 

in seattle they have these sea snalls under the sand on the beach, that's where they like to live, called geoducks or goeyducks or something like that. they're big ugly things, about the size of that thing in that picture, except they're bivalves except they're bigger then their pair of shells so they look sort of like they're wearing their pair of shells like suit. kind of like a giant penis wearing a suit made out of sea shells.