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[-] TheAlbatross 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They're a plague on gardens. It might be a metaphorical relic of an age before modern pesticides.

Edit: Sorry, I know this isn't funny, but I've also wondered about this odd phenomenon, too, and this just occurred to me.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Exactly. Any gardener knows snails are deadly. Even in our age!

[-] SGforce@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago

There's a documentary that posits the monks who were tasked with writting all the shit down had personal battles with snails who'd eat the manuscripts. I guess the books/pages were shellacked with stuff that would attract them. The monks then turned it into a meme and drew them in the margins and depicting fights like they were dragons.

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