Parisian is seen about freight delivering delicacy for him? (8)

I believe the answer is:

escargot

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(Other definitions for escargot that I've seen before include "French food" , "French delicacy" , "Hardly fast food" , "Got scare from edible French snail" , "mollusc, from Paris" .)

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