Brrr … even as a French man who enjoy snails, frogs and all good things in live I have chills going down my spine just thinking about this …
Periwinkles are local snails found in thin black conic spiky shells … they actually sell at the Watt and Marian markets I described earlier though I never came across them in a local dish … until today.
Our protocol officer Jane took Lindsey and I out on a lunch expedition at House 4, a local restaurant where we order banga soup with goat meat. The soup is made from grinded palm fruits, and the goat meat usually has as much meat as skin which helps digestion. Ten little periwinkles also found their way in the soup …
Always up for trying new things I tried to suck the snail out of its shell, got the bitter juice out, but couldn’t get the little sucker out. On the second attempt I managed to bite a bit of flesh and pulled the rest out … at which point I had a temporary loss of hearing thanks to Lindsey’s master scream :) I spat it out on my plate and realised the rest of the snail was a mix of fluorescent green and turquoise blue … oh wow wow as the hotel front desk boy would say … was I just holding this between my teeth. It took a few minutes for both of us to settle back down and proceed with the rest of the meal. Minus the rest of the periwinkles :)
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