Restoring legacy components <very OT>

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 03:12 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>
>> Yes it is. Some people like kidney pies or jellied eels too. I prefer my
>> braised sea slugs but I won't insist you should like it. :)
>
> A friend of mine from Taiwan bet me that if I would try snails in black
> bean sauce, over rice, with a cold beer, that in a week I would crave
> it. They were right! Tasty! ...until you get a bad snail. :) Ric

I tried /trepang/ as a kid in a Chinese restaurant in Lagos, Nigeria
(i.e., not a Westernized one.) Strictly trepang is sea-cucumber, not
sea-slug, but it's the closest I know of.

It was absolutely horrible. Like rubbery wet leather.

But then, I became a vegetarian at about 14 years old - I never liked
meat, even as a kid. I think it's wrong to eat animals /and/ I don't
like the flavour, texture or smell of animal flesh, so I am happy
veggie who never wants to go back.

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