National Escargot Day 

Food Facts on Escargot 

• Escargot is a dish of cooked edible snails, usually served as an appetizer in French restaurants. 


• An Escargot plate has indentations (usually 6) to hold the snail shells for baking and for serving. 


• Special EscRGOT or snail tongs are used to hold the snail shells while using a small two tined Escargot fork to extract the snail from the shell. 

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Restaurants serve about 1 billion snails annually. 

• Escargot are high in protein and low in fat and high in essential fatty acids.