boror

-- Your correspondent C.W. B. does not seem to be aware that "a ragout of boror (snails)" is a regular dish with

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I myself, while living among the Roms of England, have been regarded almost in the light of a cannibal for cooking the latter animal and preferring it to hotchiwitchu barbecued, or ragout of boror.

The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842

Because they have been known to beg the carcass of a hog which they themselves have poisoned, it has been asserted that they prefer carrion which has perished of sickness to the meat of the shambles; and because they have been seen to make a ragout of boror (snails), and to roast a hotchiwitchu or hedgehog, it has been supposed that reptiles of every description form a part of their cuisine.

The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842