Restoring legacy components <very OT>

[AV3]

On Jan/29/2011 5:1135 PM, Goh Lip 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? :)
>
>> 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.
>
>
>> 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?
>


It was his first wife who was an enthusiastic vegetarian. I don't know 
about the second wife., but, whatever her food preferences, I expect he 
kept on being a vegetarian during and after the second marriage.


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