The globalised snail

[Baz Faz]

I picked up some frozen snails from Lidl which we are going to have as a starter tonight. Waiting for the kettle to boil for tea just now I had a look at the label on the aluminium tray and read: Produced in France using escargots from Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey.

It's a long way to France from those counties. I wonder when the snails set off.

[Scrubb]

At least you know you didn't cut off their lives in their prime.

[OnlyMark]

It is about 2800km between Istanbul and Paris.
Snails can average around 1 metre per hour.
If movement was continuous, so no rest periods, that works out at more or less 320 years.

I bet they were a bit tough to eat.