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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Disgusting foods (or "Dinner for People Who Aren't Very Hungry")
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 02:22:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 02:22:25 1985
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> ... after eating lots of weird (and
> delicious) foods whose names I couldn't understand, a dish with an almost
> familiar-sounding name is placed in front of me:  Sea Cucumbers.  Having
> never had them before (let's face it, you don't find too many of them on
> Slovak or Jewish dinner tables on a regular basis), I remarked, "This is
> a vegetable, right?"
>    ...
> It was then UNGENTLY explained to me that they were some kind of animal --
> to quote one of the others, "It's like a snail.  A common garden slug."
> 
> --Lynn Gold

Sea cucumbers are members of the phylum echinodermata, which also
includes starfish and sea urchins.  Slugs and snails are molluscs,
not echinoderms.  However, I have seen sea cucmbers in the wild, and 
they don't look much more appetizing than slugs.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak