Well I've not heard it called *that* before
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It's a delicacy in France.
@TheBreadmonkey Check Parliament first
@TheBreadmonkey sounds a bit Daily Mail xenophobic to me, surely it’s just Herr E Snail?
@TheBreadmonkey what has our Bundeskanzler done now 😭
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I asked someone if they'd ever seen one and I'm now banned from a number of pubs.
@TheBreadmonkey They’ve mistranslated it, it’s actually Herr E Snail, otherwise known as Mister Eberhart Snail.
@TheBreadmonkey Won’t be difficult - according to the “documentaries” on the Internet they are all hairy
@TheBreadmonkey Buried in that article is something that floored me: the Thames used to be connected to the Rhine, before the post-ice-age deluge carved out the English Channel.
Looking at a map, it all makes sense now, but I never knew that.
Something something fog on the Rhine (I know it doesn't work)
@TheBreadmonkey There is a song Fog on the Tyne and a song Fog on the Rhine and I don't know which one you're riffing from. 😂
Tyne. Didn't know Rhine existed!
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