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Smuggled Seahorses Destined for Dinner Table Seized on Costa del Sol
The Local ^ | 18 Sep 2015

Posted on 09/19/2015 3:58:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It is one of the more unusual sort of contraband discovered by customs officers at Malaga airport when they conducted a routine suitcase search.

Two kilos of dried seahorses were found hidden within luggage of traveller arriving from Colombia.

The Civil Guard said the seahorses had been discovered within plastic bags hidden inside the suitcase of a Chinese traveller arriving at Malaga Costa del Sol airport from Cali in Columbia.

"They were discovered during a manual inspection of the luggage belonging to a passenger arriving in Malaga from Cali via Amsterdam," the Civil Guard said in a statement on Friday.

The passenger claimed that the seahorses were for "personal consumption" but is facing charges for "violating import / export laws on the transport of protected wildlife," according to the statement.

Seahorses are a delicacy in China where they are sold on skewers at street food markets and are said to have an aphrodisiac effect.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: seahorses; smuggling; spain


1 posted on 09/19/2015 3:58:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What Primitive people would consider eating SEAHORSES??? We are going backwards.


2 posted on 09/19/2015 4:05:32 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

Probably not my first choice for a snack, but are they endangered and/or regulated?


3 posted on 09/19/2015 4:06:10 PM PDT by refreshed
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To: nickcarraway

For starters, I would imagine they are a bit too crunchy for my tastes.


4 posted on 09/19/2015 4:08:02 PM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad

Once you remove the shoes and the saddle, they’re not too bad.


5 posted on 09/19/2015 4:14:11 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: cyclotic

I hope the rider goes with that saddle?


6 posted on 09/19/2015 4:14:58 PM PDT by nomad
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To: cyclotic

Seriously, those people would probably eat a dog turd off the bottom of a shoe!


7 posted on 09/19/2015 4:15:59 PM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad

Try doing a search for “Virgin Eggs” a traditional delicacy of Donyang, China.

I’d describe it, but the last time I did, the mods didn’t much like it.


8 posted on 09/19/2015 4:34:47 PM PDT by digger48 (ars)
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To: digger48

“Dongyang”

dammit


9 posted on 09/19/2015 4:35:42 PM PDT by digger48 (ars)
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To: Ann Archy

The China is infamous for cannibalism; seahorses doesn’t shock me.


10 posted on 09/19/2015 4:37:33 PM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: nickcarraway

Everything is an aphrodisiac to the Chinese. What’s wrong with their men?


11 posted on 09/19/2015 5:06:55 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Ann Archy

I had them while in Muscat Oman several yrs ago....dont remember what they taste like. Wouldnt eat them today.


12 posted on 09/19/2015 5:33:14 PM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: SatinDoll

Old joke: the Chinese will eat:

Anything with four legs that isn’t a table.

Anything that flies which isn’t an airplane.

Anything that swims that isn’t a submarine.

As for dried seahorses, the Monty Python confection known as Crunchy Frog comes to mind.


13 posted on 09/19/2015 5:36:04 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: nickcarraway

Can’t be worse than “balut” eggs. (spelling?)


14 posted on 09/19/2015 6:28:43 PM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why would they seize a dinner table???


15 posted on 09/20/2015 6:18:22 PM PDT by America_Right (Time to play your Trump card, America. Use it or lose it.)
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