Restoring legacy components <very OT>

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 04:48 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> Did she recommend 'smelly toufu'? That's fermented (spoilt) and stinks to
> high heaven and is a specialty in Taiwan. I sometimes wonder if the
> Norwegians and Islandic people may enjoy this as much as they enjoyed
> 'rotten whale/shark' and Taiwanese, rotten whale.
>
> But since 'smelly toufu' is plant-based, perhaps Liam may find this
> acceptable?   :)

Never tried it, but I now want to try! Anything I /can/ eat, I /will/ eat.

>> 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.
>>
> "Trepang" is the Indonesian word for sea-cucumber or colloquially known as
> sea-slugs, echinoderm would be the scientific word and is related to the
> star fish and sea urchin. The Indonesian word was familiar to the west
> through the Dutch, but Indonesians normally do not eat trepangs.

Is that the stuff you were talking about, though?

>> 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.
>>
>
> Okay, it's not unusual to be vegetarian. Paul McCartney still one after his
> divorce?

I think so. He was before - his first wife's name, Linda McCartney, is
still used to market a range of vegetarian prepared foods (pies,
burgers, sausages and things) in the UK, long after her death. I don't
use them myself but newly-converted vegetarians often find "fake meat"
foodstuffs comforting and familiar.

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