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  • noun a dish of eels, cooked and then allowed to cool in their own juices

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  • Just read about this dish. Has any of you ever had it? How is it?

    September 29, 2010

  • Never heard of it.

    *wonders whether it's good with peanut butter*

    September 29, 2010

  • I have had it, it's like eating cold brains.

    September 29, 2010

  • Cold, dead, bony fish corpses in a grey jelly. I spat out my first mouthful and threw the rest away.

    September 29, 2010

  • Odd. I rather like eel when it's NOT jellied. Then it's most definitely not like eating brains.

    Not that I would know, or anything.

    October 6, 2010

  • Never eaten brains before, bear? I mean, non-human brains?

    October 6, 2010

  • Eel is delicious, it's the jellification thereof that I find repugnant.

    October 6, 2010