While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

Zut alors! May 24 is National Escargot Day.

Perhaps it’s better to think of these guys in their French form as opposed to the English translation - snails. Land snails to be exact.

This culinary delicacy is traditionally served with a garlic, cream and white wine sauce, sometimes in the shell. The slippery little suckers are then accompanied by special tongs and a fork used to pry the flesh from their shells.

Don’t worry, they’re not the snails you used to play with as a kid. They’re mostly farm raised and fed a special diet. Should you find yourself inspired to prepare a batch of the meaty morsels, don’t run into the backyard looking for your dinner just yet - not all snails are edible. Best leave this dish to the pros, French ones if you can find them.