PING! This just in...
Coastal communities cash in on lucrative love medicine
8 January 2008
A remote fishing village in southern Madagascar has sold its first batch of locally farmed sea cucumbers - believed to be a potent love medicine in southeast Asia - and is hoping to cash in on the lucrative market for unusual aphrodisiacs in advance of Chinese New Year next month.
Etc, etc, etc.
Crikey.....
Coastal communities cash in on lucrative love medicine
8 January 2008
A remote fishing village in southern Madagascar has sold its first batch of locally farmed sea cucumbers - believed to be a potent love medicine in southeast Asia - and is hoping to cash in on the lucrative market for unusual aphrodisiacs in advance of Chinese New Year next month.
Etc, etc, etc.
Crikey.....
Is that a sea cucumber in your pocket or are you just...
I'll get my coat.
Why are supposed aphrodisiacs always the least appealing things to eat?
I've eaten sea cucumber before and it was like chewing a piece of salty rubber that exploded into a blob of mucous in your mouth. It took all kinds of will power (and social grace) just to keep from spitting it out onto my lap, or back into the dish.
Oiishi kunai!
My Japanese friend who had taken me out to eat, told me in a matter-of-fact way that many Japanese didn't like it. I told him that I understood completely.