Solution: Hydra Head

Answer: DOUGHNUT

Written by Justin Melvin

As hinted by the flavor text, this snake puzzle wraps around on both sides like a torus, so the top row is adjacent to the bottom row, and the rightmost column is adjacent to the leftmost one.

Caesar shifting the letters corresponding to the number of snake segments in the rows/columns corresponding to A-F by Z,L,R,D,E,G,Q,S respectively gives the answer