Yes – you heard that right the first time: vegetarian snails. The main point about eating escargot is enjoying the delicious runny butter/garlic/parsley sauce. If you make the sauce strong enough – you scarcely taste the snails. You merely have that slithering sensation down the back of your throat – assuming you like that kind of thing. Not only that, but like snails, most mushrooms are also hermaphrodite so they have quite a lot in common – that's something else you can chew upon with you