Two Good Reasons Not To Eat Raw Slugs on a Dare

Reason A.  Because slugs are hideous and disgusting. 

                    

Reason B:  Because slugs eat rat droppings which can carry a lungworm parasite -- a nematode called Angiostrongylus cantonensis -- which causes fatal brain swelling. According to the NYTimes, a 27-year-old Australian man "has been hospitalized for more than a month after eating the slugs on a dare."

“We hope this will help to remind others to avoid eating raw slugs," said a spokesman.

Comments

[Jason]

Slugs pictured are Limacus flavus.

[KKH]

That's pretty funny. I don't recommend eating any animal without cooking it first. Slugs were a pretty common meal additive in Liberia. It always grossed me out to be squished into the back of a taxi next to someone holding a clear plastic bag full of slugs for dinner. I'm pretty sure they put them in stews.