Most of the world's catch is taken in Japan. The variety most common in the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas is Loligo vulgnris. It is served in many dishes and also used as fish bait. Clinical experience IgE-mediated allergy to cooked squid and vapors from the cooking by immediate skin test reactivity have been reported. A young Japanese boy suffered exercised-induced anaphylaxis believed to be the result of eating squid and shrimp together.
Snails have two pairs of tentacles, a single broad flat foot and bear a spirally-coiled shell.
This group of snails inhabits vineyards and all regions which are not too moist. France consumes and processes more snails than any other country and imports snails from Taiwan and Indonesia. The H. aspersa species are under cultivation.