bleaurgg urp:eek:
Every time I eat lettuce from my garden I give it a cursory check for wee beasties (I am a vegetarian after all) uuurp… gah… this brings to mind a horror trash novel I read as a teen called (i think) Slugs! amongst all the slugs eating people horror some bloke ate a bit of slug in his chopped lettuce and had some sort of giant parasite eat its way out of one of his eyeballs via his brain
Isn’t meningitis one of the side effects of too much Slurm?
As a Banana Slug (class of '00) myself, I feel a kinship with slimy mollusks everywhere, and am horrified that anyone would do such a thing.
Shoulda used more salt.
Sounds like an episode of House.
Slugs are the holders of my “Least Useful Creature In The Known Universe” title.
I mean, wtf is the point of them? What do they do apart from [DEL]swarm[/DEL] ooze from wherever they live everytime it has rained, and wander aimlessly beneath bicycle wheels and pedestrians feet?
They say everything is part of the food chain, but apart from that idiot in the OP, I don’t know anything that eats slugs. I once watched a hedgehog walk past 10 big, fat ones and start chewing on a bottle top.
Let’s kill 'em all! Who’s going to miss them?
When I wrote about eating snails from my garden, I had quite a few people contact me to ask about slugs, but I understand they’re pretty horrible - lacking a shell for defence, they compensate with copious slime and bitter-tasting secretions.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall experimentally ate them prepared in a number of different ways on one of his River Cottage shows, with the most palatable presentation being some sort of fried thing made from potatoes, flour, onions and sligs - the people who tasted it said it was reasonably pleasant, but would be improved by simply leaving out the slugs.
I’m not in any kind of hurry to replicate or extend his experimental work.
I am so jealous of your Australian animals!
I wonder what kind of cool diseases you could get by eating the giant black slugs they have in Scotland (my rental car was nearly eaten by some when I was stopped by the roadside with what I believe the locals call a “tyre puncture”).
I think you can get liver flukes from eating undercooked terrestrial molluscs.
It will be.
I used to work with a guy who, when he was a kid, made salt mazes for slugs. He also used to mic up nitro glycerine and freeze vials into ice cubes and space them out on a street on a hot Summer’s day.
Especially if the symptoms can initially be mistaken for Lupus.
Kyla, omg. Now I’m even more jealous of you than I already was. I tried to convince my husband to move out to the West Coast so I, too, could be a Banana Slug, but he stubbornly insisted he has to finish his degree here in Jersey.
Ha! I don’t think you can do an MSW in Santa Cruz, though. There aren’t very many graduate programs there.
They have a really good one in astronomy.
Astronomy it is!
Raccoons do, for one. Sometimes in the early morning I see them out on the lawn darting from place to place, grabbing a slug, hauling it over somewhere there’s dirt, rolling it in the dirt, and then chowing down. Presumably they roll them in the dirt to counteract the slime.
I am trying very hard, but I do not think I can imagine a single circumstance in which an idea concluding with these words could possibly be false.
narrows eyes Were you my TA in Astronomy 1 in spring quarter 1997?
No. I didn’t get there till fall 1998.
I might well have known your TA, though. There aren’t that many people in the astronomy department, and we tend to get to know each other pretty well.
Never mind.
(looks up and curses Mangetout)