Also I love the narrative in the book about housewives keeping them alive in the bathtub for a few days to get out that muddy taste they can have like wild catfish. Some purveyors kept them in cages lowered into the Danube to same effect. Those huge tubs in the big multi-floor apartments - a friend smuggled in some red ear slider baby turtles and they lived in spare tub for a couple years until her dad built them a pond at his company.
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Also I love the narrative in the book about housewives keeping them alive in the bathtub for a few days to get out that muddy taste they can have like wild catfish. Those huge tubs in the big multi-floor apartments - a friend smuggled in some red ear slider baby turtles and they lived in spare tub for a couple years until her dad built them a pond at his company.
