Quote of the Day

[chickenfeet]

"Philip VI's doctor Guy of Vigevano's recipe for slug soup was a serious prescription for the avoidance of poisoning on crusade."

Christopher Tyerman, God's War: A New History of the Crusades, London 2006.

It's on p828 in the Penguin edition.

Comments

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Slug preparations have also been used as preventatives against scurvy.

YUM YUM.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

If they were both on the menu, I think I might choose the poison :p

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Me too. I did wonder whether the doctor possibly had an evil sense of humour.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

A coupe of years ago there was a craze for a facial beauty preparation made from slug slime.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1071570/Bulls-semen-snail-slime-flesh-eating-fish--We-reveal-weird-wacky-lengths-women-to-hold-years.html