Why don't snails have legs?

Snails don't have legs because of their ancestry - they're molluscs. The molluscs arose in the early Cambrian (over 500 million years ago), probably from ancestors resembling the Halikieriids. They crawled along the seafloor on a ventral “foot”, and many of their descendants still get around the same way today. read more

Snails do not have legs, but instead have one very large and very flat foot. Snails secrete a layer of mucus that they use to help them glide about. The snails' foot is not really a foot in the conventional sense, but instead is a muscular organ that is spread out beneath the body of the snail. read more

Canned snails are an abomination, and taste irony and disgusting, always use fresh snails. Frog legs ( cuisses de grenouilles ) are not popular at all in France today, much less so than in Cajun cuisine from Louisiana, for instance. read more