# Identity this slug-like creature. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 5, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706 "2004-07-05T22:14:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/1 "2004-07-05T22:14:50Z")
My new best friend may very well be a slug, but I didn’t see any eye stalks, and it seems to big to be a slug. It’s about a foot long and slimy. [Here’s a picture](http://home.comcast.net/~baraqiyal/IMAGE02.JPG). I’m in Northern California, if that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/2 "2004-07-05T22:17:46Z")
Tha’s a bananna slug. Salt it. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/3 "2004-07-05T22:19:24Z")
[It’s a banana slug](http://www.nps.gov/olym/slug.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/4 "2004-07-05T22:20:04Z")
[Link](http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2001Outwest/PacificNaturalHistory/Projects/GannK/Default.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/5 "2004-07-05T22:21:15Z")
Yep, that’s what it is. Strange, I’ve never seen one before. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/6 "2004-07-05T22:33:44Z")
Hey, hey, do you know if you lick one, your tongue will tingle? Was on a school field trip when I was about 7. Our guide found one. Demonstrated it. We were totally grossed out. _the crowd chants_ Lick-it! Lick-it! Lick it! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/7 "2004-07-05T23:03:35Z")
Your “new best friend” is a _slug_!?!?!? Don’t mean to criticize, but dude, you’ve got to get out more! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/8 "2004-07-06T00:22:52Z")
The banana slug is the official mascot at [UC Santa Cruz](http://www.slugweb.com/slugweb/index.php). ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/9 "2004-07-06T00:34:03Z")
I just want to say that the banana slug is the stickiest creature I have ever laid hands on. I touched one once and the slime stayed on my finger like a giant booger that just would not. come. off! I will try my best to never touch one again. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/10 "2004-07-06T05:16:03Z")
OH! This reminds me of a story! About ten years ago we had a shower stall outside our house for cleaning ourselves after a trip to the beach. While the rest of the family and friends were waiting our turn and eating watermelon, I heard a bloodcurdling scream in the stall. I see my mother plastered against the wall of the house with this TEN INCH black and yellow striped slug inching its way to her. I say "OOOHH…a Tiger Slug…_they bite_ " At this, she cries like a little girl, so I kick the slug away from her and nudge it into the garden. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/11 "2004-07-06T05:23:11Z")
I was hoping this thread would die a quiet death so the entire community wouldn’t find out that I didn’t know what a bananna slug looked like. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/12 "2004-07-06T05:27:47Z")
> [@Baraqiyal](#): > > I was hoping this thread would die a quiet death so the entire community wouldn’t find out that I didn’t know what a bananna slug looked like. Yeah, well at least you’re not going to HELL like **Enola**. That’s a terrible thing to do to your Mom! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/13 "2004-07-06T06:15:07Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > I just want to say that the banana slug is the stickiest creature I have ever laid hands on. I touched one once and the slime stayed on my finger like a giant booger that just would not. come. off! I will try my best to never touch one again. I KNOW! I got some slug slime (not banana–another variety) on my hand once and after washing with warm water and soap for several minutes, I still could not get it off! ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/14 "2004-07-06T13:38:25Z")
Try Hagfish slime! [http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/hagfish/hagfish.html](http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/hagfish/hagfish.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/15 "2004-07-06T13:42:39Z")
Do banana slugs actually taste like bananas? I need to know. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/16 "2004-07-06T13:48:43Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Do banana slugs actually taste like bananas? I need to know. Mmm… wrap 'em in tinfoil and toss them on the BBQ. Gooey! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/17 "2004-07-06T13:52:25Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Try Hagfish slime! [http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/hagfish/hagfish.html](http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/hagfish/hagfish.html) Oh yuck - that site links to a page with [hagfish slime RECIPES](http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/hagfish/hagfishathome.html). :eek: Scone, anyone? I would, but I just ate… ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/18 "2004-07-06T14:54:37Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Do banana slugs actually taste like bananas? I need to know. When I was a kid in Seattle I remember a Slug Festival that was a sort of silly annual celebration of the many races of slugs that infest the ergion. I think it did not take hold as well as some other, less mollusk-dependent festivals, although the beer tended to flow rather freely. In addition to various slug craft ranging from wooden leopard slugs (still a big hit in gift stores) to 3-feet long blown glass slugs with which one would adorn the dining room table, there was the : hurk : cullinary competition. One year the prize went to a banana slug creme pie. Yes, the judge (innebriated according to the newspaper article) actualy ate a piece of the pie and deemed it “yummy.” Sounds like a good accompaniment to “crunchy frog” if you ask me. I recon they’d taste not so much like bananas as much as escargot or maybe clams. Although horrifically gooey and vile (as anyone who has ever had the pleasure of locating one with his bare feet can attest) they are quite muscular and tough. They are mollusks. [Enjoy.](http://www.thegardenhelper.com/cgi-bin/ubb/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000007;p=0) : hurf! : ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/19 "2004-07-06T15:48:57Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > [Enjoy.](http://www.thegardenhelper.com/cgi-bin/ubb/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000007;p=0) > : hurf! : “Lawn prawns”! I love it 😃 Once again though, thanks, but I reallly couldn’t eat another bite… ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-this-slug-like-creature/253706/20 "2004-07-07T03:43:18Z")
a quote from Inigo’s linked website: ‘Continue cooking and stirring and ingesting until your Lawn Prawn Jubilee looks good enough to eat!’ The ingesting in this sentence refers to ingesting a 2 oz shot of tequila. May I just say that it would take a great many 2 oz tequila shots ingested before sauteed slugs looks good enough to eat! 😃