A snail by any other name

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So
,Cagouille comes from either the Latin cinchyllium for shell or the Angoumois for spiral. The escargot more likely from Spanish caracol for snail via old Occitan word cagolha .

A rarely used word now firca spiral staircase was ‘caracol’. Maybe we should bring it back!

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there are one or two recipes I’d like to try
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I do a very good, nay excellent, dish of Cassoulet d’escargot au Sauce Perigueux.

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are you prepared to share your recipe ?? :crossed_fingers:

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Cassoulet or cassolette ? :wink: Stella and I had this conversation a while ago :joy: (la sauce)

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I don’t care
 I’m just interested
 after eating delicious snail-offerings (in various forms) the other week :wink:

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