Hundreds? I think way more, the snails seem to have evolved to produce very little purple, it seems the Phoenicians killed the juicy ones preferentially. I've

Hundreds? I think way more, the snails seem to have evolved to produce very little purple, it seems the Phoenicians killed the juicy ones preferentially. I've read the process in Medieval times required...don't know like tens of kilograms of snail for enough purple to die one item. Like bad economics.