seeder Posted September 19, 2013 #1 Share Posted September 19, 2013 A 24-year-old man was hospitalised in Guizhou province, China, after he ate too many river-snails too frequently and turned green as a result. According to WantChinaTimes.com, he turned green because of a parasitic infection in his liver. The Chinese Center for Disease Control reportedly confirmed that he was infected by parasitic flatworms that live in animal livers. The parasite apparently entered his body because he was eating river snails on a daily basis, news sources from the provincial capital of Guiyang reported. http://yourhealth.asiaone.com/content/chinese-man-turns-green-after-eating-too-many-river-snails 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbi Laveau Posted September 19, 2013 #2 Share Posted September 19, 2013 The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from eating snails in black bean sauce. Sounds like he was eating them raw though. gross 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted September 19, 2013 #3 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Well duh, snails are nasty. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted September 19, 2013 #4 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Just the thought of eating a snail makes me feel a bit *green*. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbi Laveau Posted September 19, 2013 #5 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Just the thought of eating a snail makes me feel a bit *green*. Its an aquired taste .there's an art to eating them .they were delicious in black bean sauce ,but it was the worst food poisoning ever.This was.....easily 20 years ago . I've never touched another one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted September 19, 2013 #6 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Serves him right. Poor wee snails. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garibaldi Posted September 20, 2013 #7 Share Posted September 20, 2013 i love to eat snails...its a very well apreciated plate... i can easily eat fifty and drink a pepsi.... sorry for the bad english ín Portugal by the way... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puckmomma Posted September 20, 2013 #8 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I just hope its not the food of the future. I don't know if I could eat snails or insects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted September 20, 2013 Author #9 Share Posted September 20, 2013 i love to eat snails...its a very well apreciated plate... i can easily eat fifty and drink a pepsi.... sorry for the bad english ín Portugal by the way... sounds like a heart attack portion! Mind you, having certified clean snails cooked in garlic butter or whatever, is a world away from munching on things you find in muddy rivers, with who knows what pollution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie Posted September 20, 2013 #10 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Snails, when cleaned and cooked properly, are delicious and very healthy: pure protein and zero fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted September 20, 2013 #11 Share Posted September 20, 2013 It's not easy being green...Kermit will tell you that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPringle Posted September 20, 2013 #12 Share Posted September 20, 2013 He should have cooked the snails properly especially when they are bottom feeders. I would keep them for a week or more and feed them a clean diet before eating them. You never know what they have been eating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supervike Posted September 20, 2013 #13 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Good thing it wasn't jaundice, otherwise the author would've had a hard time coming up with a title for the article. I knew there was a joke in there someplace....You certainly found it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted September 20, 2013 #14 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Snails are ok, but they kind of taste like dirt smells, or they have so much garlic piled on them you can't taste them. For mollusks, give me squid any day, followed by clams and oysters. For snails, I'll take fresh conch! Mmmmmm! Now there's a snail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonshadow60 Posted September 21, 2013 #15 Share Posted September 21, 2013 I'm sorry, but just looking at that plate of snails made me turn green. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_dreamer Posted September 21, 2013 #16 Share Posted September 21, 2013 I didn't realize snails had to be cleaned before you cook them. The only snail-type of food I've eaten is conch fritters years ago. Never had escargot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skep B Posted September 21, 2013 #17 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Are we 100 percent sure he wasn't a radiologist who started getting angry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garibaldi Posted September 23, 2013 #18 Share Posted September 23, 2013 sounds like a heart attack portion! Mind you, having certified clean snails cooked in garlic butter or whatever, is a world away from munching on things you find in muddy rivers, with who knows what pollution what? you got me all wrong,..it was just an answer to whoever was disgusted about eating snails... in my country ( Portugal) its tradition...just that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garibaldi Posted September 23, 2013 #19 Share Posted September 23, 2013 there is preparation before they can be eatable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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