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[SeaMaiden]

Gross slime spill😱

https://www.cnet.com/news/hagfish-spill-oregon-highway-101-slime-eels/

[Plaid Pants2]

I saw that on the news.

The truck was transporting the slime eels to be shipped to Japan, where they are considered to be a delicacy.

The eels secrete a slime when they get stressed.

[Laura14]

This would be the day I quit the highway cleanup crew.  No way!  

[beach-mom]

When I taught in Japan, I took advantage of some Saturday bus trips for Americans. We went different places, but we usually stopped mid-morning for a rest stop by the same resort lake. Someone on the trip recommended Unagi pies, a delicious pastry sold there. It was a "thing" among the bus trip participants. Once you were let in on it, you couldn't wait to get one. It was delicious. Not long before I left Japan, I paid attention to what "unagi" meant! My delicious pastry contained ground up eel - YUCK!!! I never had one again. **shudder** 

                                             

[Cakers3]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

I saw that on the news.

The truck was transporting the slime eels to be shipped to Japan, where they are considered to be a delicacy.

The eels secrete a slime when they get stressed.

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@Plaid Pants2  So do some posters.  LOL

[sidsmom]

I see those State Farm Insurance commercials

talking about weird things which are covered

and it's featured in their 'Hall of Fame.'

This definitely would be HOF Worthy.

Poor little eels. 

[momtochloe]

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@beach-mom wrote:

When I taught in Japan, I took advantage of some Saturday bus trips for Americans. We went different places, but we usually stopped mid-morning for a rest stop by the same resort lake. Someone on the trip recommended Unagi pies, a delicious pastry sold there. It was a "thing" among the bus trip participants. Once you were let in on it, you couldn't wait to get one. It was delicious. Not long before I left Japan, I paid attention to what "unagi" meant! My delicious pastry contained ground up eel - YUCK!!! I never had one again. **shudder** 

                                             

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@beach-mom it's kind of like when you first find out what calamari really is . . .

[momtochloe]

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@sidsmom wrote:

I see those State Farm Insurance commercials

talking about weird things which are covered

and it's featured in their 'Hall of Fame.'

This definitely would be HOF Worthy.

Poor little eels. 

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@sidsmom I felt the same way when I saw them getting squashed and/or scooped up by those bulldozers . . .

[noodleann]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

I saw that on the news.

The truck was transporting the slime eels to be shipped to Japan, where they are considered to be a delicacy.

The eels secrete a slime when they get stressed.

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Then someone should call Japan about a cleanup on  Aisle Oregon. I'm trying to unsee the photo of that car and those things and that ick. 

[momtochloe]

@noodleann clean up on Aisle Oregon . . . classic . . . tee hee!