Barf....
~~ Stephenie > |-----Original Message----- > |From: Beth F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > |Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:10 PM > |To: CF-Community > |Subject: Re: Cambodian Jew > | > | > |> Ewwwww. Have you ever tried them Beth? > | > | > |no, but i would attempt to try them were I offered some. > | > |Recently I was offered the opportunity to try a gumboot. I > |said SURE, > |until I was asked to clean the gumboot. > | > |A gumboot is a mollusky thing - a chiton, kind of like a sea > |slug with six hard armor plates on its back. The top is > |matte black and the bottom looks kind of like a mussel. > |These were steamed or boiled and they are rather firm. To > |clean them (they weren't cleaned) you have to rip off the > |armor plates. When you do this horrible green gook comes > |out of the middle, all > |over your hands and makes you retch into the garbage can. > |You then wash > |the green goo out of the gumboot. > | > |I then refused to try the gumboot, I was berated until I > |managed to swallow a tiny bit, without chewing. > | > |Apparently, while the population here calls the gumboots > |gumboots, they are NOT gumboot chitons. Gumboot chitons > |have red stuff over their scales. > | > |This is a picture of the thing I ate - the black leather > |chiton : http://web.mit.edu/corrina/tpool/chiton.html > | > | ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
