The French eat 300 million snails a year, but China, as a foodie country, does not look at it, preferring to eat field snails rather than snails, why can snails flourish all over the world, but they can't enter the eyes of Chinese alone?
According to statistics, the French eat snails can be described as "mad", a year can eat 60,000 tons of snails, that is, more than 300 million, this number is somewhat huge, but not exaggerated.
If you watch the movie, you will find that in the French upper class, the most common dish is snails. It became a favorite of these nobles. But in the beginning, the French did not eat snails, and they had not yet unearthed this new cuisine. So when did they fall in love with eating snails?
Wine became a popular drink in France in the Middle Ages, so many upper-class nobles established wine estates on their own land, originally pointing to the production of wine to do some business, but did not expect that the vines of their estates were frequently destroyed, but no one could find the problem. Seeing that the yield was hopeless, the owner of the manor sought out experts to specifically check the problem, and only then found the snail.
However, at that time, the owner of the manor did not expect that in the future, snails would become a famous French dish. The reason why snails choose vineyards is because the environment where grapes are cultivated is cold and humid, and the land here is fertile, just suitable for snails to survive and reproduce, and snails have found a good place to live and begin to reproduce. However, the peaceful life was disrupted, after all, their appearance caused the grape production to be too low, and the owner of the estate ordered to get rid of all the snails.
The owner of the estate hired a lot of agricultural workers to remove snails, but for many days, these agricultural workers caught snails from morning to night. The amount is too large, you must know that the snails they catch every day can be sold. At this time, someone came up with the bold idea of sending these snails to the kitchen to see if they could be made into food.
The situation in France at that time was indeed sluggish, many people were often hungry, although the idea of cooking snails sounded too strange, but everyone decided to try it, but unexpectedly, snails tasted super good after making them. Subsequently, the snails of the owner of the estate were brought home by these agricultural workers.
As the trend of turning snails into a delicacy became popular, many estates began to specialize in breeding snails and then selling them to restaurants that made them. You know, there are now more than 500 restaurants in Paris, France, where snails are made, so those people seem to have found a business opportunity and not only started breeding snails, but also changing breeds.
The French eat snails and are picky about the breed and pay attention to how to eat them. For example, baked snails can be said to be the most common way to eat, eat hot taste best, in order not to burn their hands, the French have also specially developed tools to eat snails. As eating snails becomes more and more popular, even ordinary people use snails as a home-cooked dish.
Of course, not only the French eat snails, but even Africa eats snails, are snails really that delicious?
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