What a bunch of slimeballs!

In just the latest major theft of a French national treasure , bandits slipped into a famous snail farm in northern France and snatched nearly 1,000 pounds of escargot worth more than $100,000 — just in time for holiday season, when the delicacy is eaten the most.

The sticky-fingered foodies cut a fence at L’Escargot des Grands Crus in Bouzy — a tourist attraction that sells to Michelin star restaurants — in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 24 and broke into a building, according to owners.

The tasteless crooks raided every shelf and freezer, making off with the famous farm’s entire stock of fresh and frozen snails, along with petty cash, according to the farmers.

“It’s a real blow,” the owners wrote on Facebook this week. “We are trying our best to replen

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