The secret life of Snail Salad

Wed Jan 29 20:37:00 UTC 2003

"Scungilli" is most probably a dialect form (southern Italy and Sicily) of the Italian "conchiglie", meaning "conch".
Jan Ivarsson

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> Larry, wondering if "conch salad" isn't used because nobody outside
> of Key West is sure of how to pronounce "conch" >>
>
> Well,  dunno that SNAIL SALAD is "opaque' just because it is made with
> scungilli. It seems to me that SNAIL SALAD is more accesible than SCUNGILLI
> SALAD! WHAT THE HELL IS A SCUNGILLI, I'd like to know--and I would look that
> up in my dictionary. Isn't a sungilli just a kind of snail?