Snails for London
SHIPMENT ARRIVES LONDON, Dec. 2. London has just received it® first consignment of live edible snails since the war began. There are about 45,000 of them. Mr. Alexander Gaudin, Soho’® Snail King, said this week:— “They are about a month late this year owing to transport and other war difficulties. Another cause of delay has been doubts as> to whether an import license would be necessary, as it was in the last war. “The snails were then officially listed as ‘horned cattle.’ But this time they are being let in free, and so far there is no talk of their coming under tlie rationing regulations. ’ ’ The 45,00 U snails came from Alsace Lorraine, and are of the “gros blanc” Burgundian type. “Nowadays,” said Mr. Gaudin, “the snails are bred deliberately for the market on a large scale, not only in the Dijon district of France, but in Switzerland, Germany and Czechoslovakia. We shall not, of course, get any snails frofii Germany for a long time.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 4
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168Snails for London Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 4
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