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Originally Posted by Milesian
Didn't you try the Cockney "delicacy" of Jellied Eels in London?  |
Uh.. no, never. The meat of the eels (the big ones, not the tiny elves) is jellied per se.
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The only time I eat eels are when I buy a Chicken dish from the Chinese.
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I hate to tell you this, but if they are from a Chinese restaurant and come with the chicken, then they are most probably worms.
Near my town, in the villages surrounding a lagoon, there is a dish knwon as
all i pebre (lit. garlic and chille in Catalan), which consists of eel:
The eel, a fresh/sea water fish:
In Galicia they eat a similar fish known as
congrio (I don't know what the name in English is).
The
congrio:
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