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Do french people still eat frogs legs and snails?

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French People eat worms because they are juicy and they have lots of nutrition.

We do not eat worms !!! nor snakes !!! rarely snails

sometimes a lost tourist will be prepared with a cheese-sauce, accompanied with a good wine.

yes because they are nice and nutrition

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Yes, and they're delicious.

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Nobody does...

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Eating frog's legs or snails is not really popular, except for tourists thinking these recipes are a mainstay of French cuisine - which they are not. They are curiosities.

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I respectfully disagree with the reply above. Although I am not french, I do share most of its culture since I live in the french speaking part of Belgium, about 30 miles from France and yes, we definitely eat frog's legs and snails. I personally do not like snails, but I love frog's legs. Children usually like them, too. However, it would be a sin not to use plenty of garlic when cooking them ! Also, you need dry white wine with frog legs.

Although I agree it hardly qualifies as everyday cooking, it does so no less than lobsters, oysters or foie gras. And we eat lots of Roquefort, too :)

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Having lived in the hexagon for more than 20 years, my wife and I are not exactly tourists. My wife will never pass up snails on a menu; I am not in love with them, but never say no to frog's legs. We eat them mostly at a local restaurant on their 'menu a 12 Euro' - full of workmen and not a tourist in sight.

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Every French person probably does not eat snails and frog legs every day, but it is still very popular dishes and is consumed in huge quantities.

Snails and frogs legs are known french dishes, but actually, most french people don't eat that more than maybe once a year.

A few restaurants propose snails, but I (french person) never saw frog legs in a restaurant (except a Chinese one) or in a supermarket.

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Some eat frog's legs and escargots (cooked snails).

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Yes many french people do and many other nationalitys eat them too. Snails taste like a small lump of meat and frogs legs taste like chicken.

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