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3 AE
09-03-14, 23:08
Damn! Can you imagine some restaurant serving one of these up as an appetizer? Strange things trying to get into the Lower 48.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ham-size-african-snails-seized-lax-serious-threat-n155771

MorphCross
09-03-14, 23:24
Damn! Can you imagine some restaurant serving one of these up as an appetizer? Strange things trying to get into the Lower 48.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ham-size-african-snails-seized-lax-serious-threat-n155771

First thing that sprang to mind when I read the story was Bio Meat:Nectar.

But it's essentially large Escargot. Strange food? Try Haggis, Cow Brain, or Rocky Mountain Oysters.

SteyrAUG
09-03-14, 23:53
Nothing good comes from Africa.

Sensei
09-04-14, 03:36
Ok, why was someone trying to bring these things into the US?

jpmuscle
09-04-14, 03:45
Ok, why was someone trying to bring these things into the US?
High dollar pet trade or cuisine most likely.

MorphCross
09-04-14, 04:38
Ok, why was someone trying to bring these things into the US?


High dollar pet trade or cuisine most likely.

Not sure if I would ever want to try to eat something that can break down exterior paint or stucco as a food source. When you add the fact that they can carry meningitis...Ugh, maybe they were trying to create their own horror movie.

jpmuscle
09-04-14, 05:25
Not sure if I would ever want to try to eat something that can break down exterior paint or stucco as a food source. When you add the fact that they can carry meningitis...Ugh, maybe they were trying to create their own horror movie.
Bah, where's your sense of adventure? Lol

montanadave
09-04-14, 08:16
Holy shit! "Look at that "S" car go!"

markm
09-04-14, 08:18
Nothing good comes from Africa.

Reminds me of the expression... The problem with Africa is the Africans.

Big A
09-04-14, 10:22
Holy shit! "Look at that "S" car go!"

Yer slippin' Dave!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B3TN2rEckQ

SteyrAUG
09-04-14, 13:28
Ok, why was someone trying to bring these things into the US?

It's too late. We already have them.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-02-03/news/fl-giant-african-snail-20140203_1_giant-african-land-snail-south-florida-ifa-orisha


Federal authorities theorized they were smuggled into the country by practitioners of Ifa Orisha, a Santeria-like African cult whose leader, Charles L. Stewart of Hialeah, urged congregants to drink the snail's juice.

"Religious practitioners from Nigeria have been known to use these snails in their religious practices," agriculture department spokesman Mark Fagan said. "They are used to foretell a practitioner's future health, prosperity and spirituality."

Some local medical buildings already have huge problems with them.

montanadave
09-04-14, 13:37
It's too late. We already have them.

Great honk! Giant hermaphroditic snails that diddle themselves, eat lungworm-infested rat feces when they aren't eating your house, transmit incurable meningitis, and kill your dog.

I can't wait for the first hard frost. You folks that live in the petri-dish of the nation are insane.

jpmuscle
09-04-14, 13:47
It's too late. We already have them.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-02-03/news/fl-giant-african-snail-20140203_1_giant-african-land-snail-south-florida-ifa-orisha



Some local medical buildings already have huge problems with them.
One can help but notice the strong African related element in that synopsis which was alluded to earlier..

Wtf over

Moose-Knuckle
09-04-14, 15:05
Strange things trying to get into the Lower 48.

No it's that we allow every 02 thief from third world shit holes into our Shining City upon a Hill to trash the place.

montanadave
09-04-14, 15:55
No it's that we allow every 02 thief from third world shit holes into our Shining City upon a Hill to trash the place.

And it all started with the Irish!

Moose-Knuckle
09-04-14, 16:02
And it all started with the Irish!

Never knew the Irish smuggled in invasive species'. And to think here all this time I thought they gave us song and drink!

brown3345
09-04-14, 16:37
Just what we need. Another Asian carp, Kudzu, Killer bee, Zebra Mussel, Fire ant, Burmese Python, Cane toad, Emerald Ash Borer.... The list goes on forever.

3 AE
09-04-14, 17:53
Holy shit! "Look at that "S" car go!"



:lol: Now, that's funny!!!

SteyrAUG
09-04-14, 17:57
One can help but notice the strong African related element in that synopsis which was alluded to earlier..

Wtf over


Killer bees, Ebola, diseased snails, hurricanes, voodoo, tribalism, etc. again nothing good comes from Africa. They can even keep their DeBeers diamonds and krugerands.

SteyrAUG
09-04-14, 17:59
Just what we need. Another Asian carp, Kudzu, Killer bee, Zebra Mussel, Fire ant, Burmese Python, Cane toad, Emerald Ash Borer.... The list goes on forever.

Wait till some dipshit releases these in a tropical US environment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9001000/9001866.stm

MorphCross
09-04-14, 19:21
I would be far more leery of the Brazilian Wandering Spider. They can hide in Banana Crates and have been discovered over seas after being transported.

glocktogo
09-04-14, 21:08
We should reply in kind by exporting Joe Biden to them...

TomD
09-04-14, 21:22
I'm for expanding that to any Democrat you can catch!

SteyrAUG
09-04-14, 22:40
I would be far more leery of the Brazilian Wandering Spider. They can hide in Banana Crates and have been discovered over seas after being transported.


Give it time. Still I think 25 meter webs across the everglades would freak me the hell out.

montanadave
09-05-14, 10:56
Give it time. Still I think 25 meter webs across the everglades would freak me the hell out.

I hesitate to post this for fear of inducing some form of catatonic psychosis, but . . . well, shit, ya gots ta know.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoB8t0B4jx4