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[Anita]

Roger, you are most welcome. One can win an entire meal for the mind on this forum.

For the escargot lovers, Calif. is teaming with snails. Yes, the local common garden snail is the European brown and yellow striped garden snail -- Helix aspersa. They were imported here in the early 1850s by a Frenchman who intended to sell them as food, but the market here during the Gold Rush was too unsophisticated for snails. He ended up dumping some snails, and another collection escaped.

People here catch them and purge them on cornmeal for a few days to rid them of snail bait.