When I was a little girl back in the the early 60's, my Portuguese grandma would take me and my siblings out periwinkle hunting in the Bodega and Bolinas areas. We'd each have a bucket and see who could gather the most. They were never wasted. Everyone loved them except me. She'd boil them, let them sit for a few hours and then she'd give everyone a safety pin to dig out the meat. She'd melt butter in a pan and give everyone their own little serving bowl of warm butter. She'd serve this alongside some warm polenta mixed with chopped kale flakes. She sure knew comfort food. Thank you for your video and bringing back some wonderful childhood memories.
I see so many people from other countries here, so allow me to join in from the Netherlands! When I went to the beach in the south-west of the Netherlands, with my friends, their mum would drive us and catch a bunch of periwinkles for us. It is an acquired taste for sure, and thankfully she did all the hard work of taking out all the little buggers for us kids - letting kids mess around with needles or sharp forks isn't the handiest. Fond memories of the beachtrips, fond memories of eating these little things with some chips/fries! :)
Hey! Super vlog !!!!😉👍 But listen, in Northern England at the sea side winkles were a seaside treat !!! A cone shaped paper bag with a pin !! Nostalgia indeed !!!!😘
Really tasty. I pick them regularly here in Northern Ireland with my kids. We would just boil them as is but will definitely try your method for curiosity. Any extra we normally store in a jar of vinegar like you would buy a jar of cockles or mussels in a shop. Thanks for the tip.
I live in Newfoundland and I was down to the beach today looking for crabs to throw on fire and eat but instead I found these so I grabbed a few handfuls and threw them on a flat rock in the fire, and damn there delicious loves them! Taste like mussels to be honest.
Next time instead of boiling them or steaming them, try flash frying them in wok preferably, or thin pan large pan will do. A hand full of spring onion (cut into thin narrow strips) A half hand of Ginger (as above) A thumbfull of your preffered hot spice A pinch of garlic salt Add periwinkles and flash fry 5 mins tops... You will find that you will be sucking on those shells because of the favour...real nice. P.s If you break off the coned end of the periwinkle before cooking them with some pliers, you won´t need a toothpick as it create´s a suction and you just do as stated above with style.
Winkles are much nicer than escargot in my opinion, when I was a boy we used to have them for Sunday tea in the UK, along with cockles there's nothing tastier.
This brought so much memories! I love eating it with rice.. we actually boil it and make a soup! Now i am thinking when the last time I ate these. My mouth is watering.
@octobass9072 isn’t wrong. In South West Scotland where I grew up we call periwinkles whelks or winkles and what the rest of the world calls whelks, we call Buckie’s.
In Ireland we enjoy them too, as a boy about 8 years old I used to get big coal bags in the beach in fenit Co Kerry sell some of them and have some myself.
Most the Portuguese community in nsw Australia love them. I grew up eating them and my non Portuguese friends used to look at me and say that we were weird for eating them. I said your loss, more for me 😋
+Seinna Sana i grew up eating periwinkles and everyone except my portuguese friends and family thought they were gross. they are definitely missing out. i thought the video might inspire some people to try them. hope you enjoyed it, lynne :-)
The perriwinkles around here go through cycles. Some years it's profitable enough to pick wrinkles stead of digging clams. We see a few years of slow growth an not much movement around the beach. Then a few years of crawling around exploding in numbers and size. Right now they are doing their thing. I saw a massive herd of them on the beach today. Your pot would be filled in a litteral minute. Ashamed I didn't get a video of them. I have videos from a couple years back of the same beach. The clams were at peak of their cycle an perriwinkles were scarce.
Shouldn't they be removed from the shell before eating? Even with roaring boiling water I'm just thinking there is dirt and grime on them as long as they are in their shell.
We have these too and I live in North-East India. We eat the conical variety also. They are females. There are times when they are full of little ones.
amy xiong Boiled it whole. Not sure what you mean about breaking the end. There’s nothing you can break off. Perhaps you have a different type of periwinkle where you are?
I get them off the rocks under the seaweed so they’re not usually sandy. But you could try soaking them in salt water. That’s what I do with clams and it works well.
Sorry people, Winkles need no fancy stuff, never in my like have I heard of dressing them up with garlic, pepper, butter.... These beauties only need water thats it water.... And if your really in favour of a salty flavour take a bottle of sea water with you from the beach and boil them in that. Ireland is full of Winkles on the Atlantic Coast we eat them alot. Ps. We call his little door a cap 👍
I haven't eaten any since I moved from MA to FL. I would really like to get some if I could here in FL. A little pepper salt then you would use a needle to scoop them out and eat them. I took them more as an appetizer then a dinner or lunch
Look in your frozen foods seafood department at the grocery grocery store (I literally seen a bag of them earlier) or try an African market or Asian market.
Those are snails ! In France or any fancy restaurant they call them escargot and they are removed with miniature 2 prong forks and eaten ! I think it’s cruel that people eat them because they are boiled to death and that is terribly painful ! Just a word from a vegetarian ! PEACE ☮️
I must be doing something wrong because I took some home to give them a home in a huge aquarium. I’ve had them for months now and they’ve been living happily so far but I never thought about boiling them 😭😭
So you have imprisoned living things for your own pleasure? How do you know they're happy, do yours talk? If I were a snail I'd rather be boiled and consumed than imprisoned in your aquarium.
not that we know of. there are some with kind of a pointy conical shell that i might avoid though. not sure if they're poisonous but don't believe anyone eats them.
When I was a little girl back in the the early 60's, my Portuguese grandma would take me and my siblings out periwinkle hunting in the Bodega and Bolinas areas. We'd each have a bucket and see who could gather the most. They were never wasted. Everyone loved them except me. She'd boil them, let them sit for a few hours and then she'd give everyone a safety pin to dig out the meat. She'd melt butter in a pan and give everyone their own little serving bowl of warm butter. She'd serve this alongside some warm polenta mixed with chopped kale flakes. She sure knew comfort food. Thank you for your video and bringing back some wonderful childhood memories.
I married a Portuguese man from New Bedford, Mass., and he turned me onto these FANTASTIC yummies❣️❣️❣️
i was raised right down the road in fall river,ma and my great grandparents used to take me to round them up all the time
I see so many people from other countries here, so allow me to join in from the Netherlands! When I went to the beach in the south-west of the Netherlands, with my friends, their mum would drive us and catch a bunch of periwinkles for us. It is an acquired taste for sure, and thankfully she did all the hard work of taking out all the little buggers for us kids - letting kids mess around with needles or sharp forks isn't the handiest. Fond memories of the beachtrips, fond memories of eating these little things with some chips/fries! :)
I used to use a safety pin (same sharpness) im Canadian so Atlantic Ocean maritimes.
Hey! Super vlog !!!!😉👍
But listen, in Northern England at the sea side winkles were a seaside treat !!! A cone shaped paper bag with a pin !! Nostalgia indeed !!!!😘
6d a cone on Fleetwood pier circa 1967😊👍
Really tasty. I pick them regularly here in Northern Ireland with my kids. We would just boil them as is but will definitely try your method for curiosity. Any extra we normally store in a jar of vinegar like you would buy a jar of cockles or mussels in a shop. Thanks for the tip.
That was so helpful! I’m so glad I’ve been introduced to this new snack!!
Periwinkles are seafood just like clams and oysters. They're delicious.
I live in Newfoundland and I was down to the beach today looking for crabs to throw on fire and eat but instead I found these so I grabbed a few handfuls and threw them on a flat rock in the fire, and damn there delicious loves them! Taste like mussels to be honest.
Try them on buttered crusty bread with a touch of pepper and vinegar. Thats how we eat them in UK.
Whos “we”? Not all of us do that.
Next time instead of boiling them or steaming them, try flash frying them in wok preferably, or thin pan large pan will do.
A hand full of spring onion (cut into thin narrow strips)
A half hand of Ginger (as above)
A thumbfull of your preffered hot spice
A pinch of garlic salt
Add periwinkles and flash fry 5 mins tops...
You will find that you will be sucking on those shells because of the favour...real nice.
P.s If you break off the coned end of the periwinkle before cooking them with some pliers, you won´t need a toothpick as it create´s a suction and you just do as stated above with style.
Used to love picking and eating these when we went on holiday as a child
Winkles are much nicer than escargot in my opinion, when I was a boy we used to have them for Sunday tea in the UK, along with cockles there's nothing tastier.
Remember it well sunday tea with bread an butter an cup of tea, still do this :-)
@@johnhorton6496 and jelly if we were lucky lol.
@@robarnold4104 , lol yep
we used to eat periwinkles as kids, too! we used to use toothpicks to pull out.
Thank you so much for sharing! I’m excited to try them now!❤️
This brought so much memories! I love eating it with rice.. we actually boil it and make a soup! Now i am thinking when the last time I ate these. My mouth is watering.
Sasa Rivas with rich? Wow, I hate it with rice.
We love them in Scotland and we call them wilks
Whelks are bigger. Winkles are the periwinkles - taste is different
@octobass9072 isn’t wrong. In South West Scotland where I grew up we call periwinkles whelks or winkles and what the rest of the world calls whelks, we call Buckie’s.
I ate them growing up. Loved them!
In Ireland we enjoy them too, as a boy about 8 years old I used to get big coal bags in the beach in fenit Co Kerry sell some of them and have some myself.
Most the Portuguese community in nsw Australia love them.
I grew up eating them and my non Portuguese friends used to look at me and say that we were weird for eating them.
I said your loss, more for me 😋
The naysayers are missing out!
Mas fica lol
my 12 year old and i love them! they are WAY better if you dip them in butter!
I'm eating a bowl of winkles at the moment. They're yummy, such a fresh taste of the sea
I picked about 2 quarts of them today. I'll be eating them tomorrow.
I lived in Liverpool UK and we all love them aswell
My English auntie tied to get us to collect & eat them. Collection was easy. Maybe I need your special technique lol
My best theory.
people usually never eat winkles in my country but the rest are lucky. they taste great!
+Seinna Sana i grew up eating periwinkles and everyone except my portuguese friends and family thought they were gross. they are definitely missing out. i thought the video might inspire some people to try them. hope you enjoyed it, lynne :-)
I see those quite frequently while digging bloodworms on the coast of Maine.
Try it with garlic butter sauce! Yum
I used to eat these in Nb (Canada beside Maine and Nova Scotia) as a child
Where are you? I live in MA but I always pick periwinkles at York Beach ME.
we filmed this near Mass Maritime on Cape Cod but I have gathered periwinkles in Ogunquit many times, very close to you. they are plentiful there!
The perriwinkles around here go through cycles. Some years it's profitable enough to pick wrinkles stead of digging clams. We see a few years of slow growth an not much movement around the beach. Then a few years of crawling around exploding in numbers and size. Right now they are doing their thing. I saw a massive herd of them on the beach today. Your pot would be filled in a litteral minute. Ashamed I didn't get a video of them. I have videos from a couple years back of the same beach. The clams were at peak of their cycle an perriwinkles were scarce.
Might be better to fry them with some spices...
What a name for a sea snail... sounds like a flower... hahaha...
We make soup out of them. Super delicious!
Is this safe to eat during pregnancy ?
Shouldn't they be removed from the shell before eating? Even with roaring boiling water I'm just thinking there is dirt and grime on them as long as they are in their shell.
my avó taught me how to forage periwinkles, i love there taste
They are excellent in a bread sandwich with vinegar and pepper.
really? wow!
HOW 2 HEROES, Yes if you can find some give it a try.
In northern Ireland wee call them willeaks
Should we eat that black part also?
TRUTH NO LIES if you mean the scale, no. Don’t eat that.
How2Heroes no not about the scale but that soft blackish part at the end of that meat which you pull out last.
TRUTH NO LIES yup the whole snail is edible. And delicious!
Do they appear all over the world?
I live in Hawaii and I love periwinkles
DatGurl TalksPidgin we have them in Ireland to I love them
We have these too and I live in North-East India. We eat the conical variety also. They are females. There are times when they are full of little ones.
They're full up in South Africa. I've also seen them all throughout Africa.
What beach is this at. Ima go take it all
Thanks for sharing!! Yummy!!
Do you need a license like a fishing license for getting the periwinkles in California?
are periwinkles the same as 'marsh periwinkles'?
in scotland there known as snotters with crash helmets!
lol
Hahahaha na their nooo it’s wulks
Did you just boil it whole or broke the end before boiling
amy xiong Boiled it whole. Not sure what you mean about breaking the end. There’s nothing you can break off. Perhaps you have a different type of periwinkle where you are?
How2Heroes I'm from Cali but I get from sf supermarket oh cause my mom does it so it would be easy to eat it
minha avó me ensinou como pegá-los amam isso!
how do you avoid them being crunchy with sand?
I get them off the rocks under the seaweed so they’re not usually sandy. But you could try soaking them in salt water. That’s what I do with clams and it works well.
@@How2Heroes Unfortunately, we don't have that many coasts in Denmark only with rocks :/
the curly part at the end is actually their stomach and they sometimes eat sand. I usually just rip that end part off cuz it comes off easy.
Is there a way to check if they a not good to eat, like how muscle if the shell isn't open there bad
Michael Bragan If you touch it, it should retract slightly into its shell. If there’s no movement, toss it. I’ve never had any issues though.
Sorry people, Winkles need no fancy stuff, never in my like have I heard of dressing them up with garlic, pepper, butter.... These beauties only need water thats it water.... And if your really in favour of a salty flavour take a bottle of sea water with you from the beach and boil them in that.
Ireland is full of Winkles on the Atlantic Coast we eat them alot.
Ps. We call his little door a cap 👍
Nigerians love these
really? cool!
I live on Long Island. Anyone know if periwinkles can be found here?
Its lovely just Cooked and then dipped in vinger/pepper
I haven't eaten any since I moved from MA to FL. I would really like to get some if I could here in FL. A little pepper salt then you would use a needle to scoop them out and eat them. I took them more as an appetizer then a dinner or lunch
Look in your frozen foods seafood department at the grocery grocery store (I literally seen a bag of them earlier) or try an African market or Asian market.
Mince chilli and garlic, add salt and lime juice. Makes it taste better
In Eastern Canada they’re called winkles
On Grand Manan Island we pick them and sell them
Did you want any periwinkles with that garlic salt 😳😳😳
Those are snails ! In France or any fancy restaurant they call them escargot and they are removed with miniature 2 prong forks and eaten ! I think it’s cruel that people eat them because they are boiled to death and that is terribly painful ! Just a word from a vegetarian ! PEACE ☮️
Love!!
Man, I’d dip that in melted butter!
in Indonesia this called tutut
I want to eat the periwinkles
i wonder why its very salty
She said it! “Repulsive!” 🥴
Cook them? Why bother! Fresh snack whilst o the beach. Straight off the rock straight in the Rox 😂
Add Szechuan pepper and Sichuan chili.
their massive! ime in the uk and we dont get any that big hear
Northern costal English this is an event to sit at the table with a needle and pick them as a family
Too bad the West coast doesnt have them.
I must be doing something wrong because I took some home to give them a home in a huge aquarium. I’ve had them for months now and they’ve been living happily so far but I never thought about boiling them 😭😭
So you have imprisoned living things for your own pleasure? How do you know they're happy, do yours talk? If I were a snail I'd rather be boiled and consumed than imprisoned in your aquarium.
Is better to use toothpick :)
I for my experience you are missing lemon grass alot salt and pepper bigger the better .
Lol "asian people". Yeah most populated continent. All good. I get what you mean.
Classic UA-cam
20 minutes cooking time😂😂😂😂😂😂..no wonder they tasted rather rubbery…..5 mins max in salted boiling water.
Add coconut milk
Those sunglasses can be left behind next time so you can tan the rest of your face
Are there any known poisonous look a likes?
not that we know of. there are some with kind of a pointy conical shell that i might avoid though. not sure if they're poisonous but don't believe anyone eats them.
The only no-no with winkles that I know of is: NEVER collect them from old breakwaters that have metal fittings, or old metal shipwrecks, pipes etc.
Good information to know. Thanks guys.
Those are not periwinkle snails. Guess you're not native to the USA. Or you would know this
Lemon grass ...
Lemon grass .........
A Snail. 🐌
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There not periwinkles just winkels these are
At least clean the soot off the pin
Very helpful video though
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Those are way too young and small.
No thank you.
Nope!
Lemon grass.....