# My \ is full of eels **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213 "2017-07-14T04:23:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/1 "2017-07-14T04:23:16Z")
No hovercraft were involved, [other vehicles definitely were](http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/07/truck_full_of_eels_overturns_o.html) ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/2 "2017-07-14T04:43:44Z")
Everyone should [follow that link](http://image.oregonlive.com/home/olive-media/width960/img/oregonian/photo/2017/07/13/eel4jpg-b2e7c899c7cab5ac.jpg) to see what a sedan covered with 7500 pounds of hagfish and their slime looks like. ---
**Author:** ![mattm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mattm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/3 "2017-07-14T05:27:08Z")
Heard this on the Radio today. " Giant Eel Spill on Highway 101". Broke me up… Pretty funny write up in the Big O. > [@](#): > > The fish were loaded in the back of a truck driven by Salvatore Tragale for **transport to Korea** , where they are a delicacy. Tragale was driving northbound on 101… I didn’t know you could get to Korea on 101. Wonder how Leif Hansen will compute diminished value on a slimed car. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/4 "2017-07-14T05:38:00Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Everyone should [follow that link](http://image.oregonlive.com/home/olive-media/width960/img/oregonian/photo/2017/07/13/eel4jpg-b2e7c899c7cab5ac.jpg) to see what a sedan covered with 7500 pounds of hagfish and their slime looks like. Who ya gonna call? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/5 "2017-07-14T11:33:37Z")
> [@mattm](#): > > I didn’t know you could get to Korea on 101. There’s a wormhole in Sequim. Technically it’s for eels but who uses the term “eelhole”? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/6 "2017-07-14T12:58:46Z")
I started another thread on this elsewhere before I saw this one. My commernts: Hagfish Bonanza! * * * > **[HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News](https://www.huffpost.com/)** > > Read the latest headlines, news stories, and opinion from Politics, Entertainment, Life, Perspectives, and more. A truck carrying 7,500 pounds of live hagfish spilled its contents on a road in Oregon, covering the road and several cars. The hagfish (which looks like an eel, but isn’t) has one of those disgusting lamprey-like jawless mouths, but compounds its disgustingness by producing unbelievable amounts of slime, prompting some people to call it a “snotfish” [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFdNLInhIK...v-800width.jpg](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFdNLInhIK...v-800width.jpg) [http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/b71...the-future.jpg](http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/b71...the-future.jpg) Why would a truck be carrying several tons of live disgusting fish, besides the opportunity to create a nonlethal but yucky disaster (or the punchline to a joke)? Apparently they are a favored item in Korean cuisine. > [@](#): > > Although no humans sustained major injuries in the crash, there were a high number of hagfish casualties Pictures show the road (and cars) covered in slime. I assume that the hagfish released slime as a defense mechanism, or possibly in death throes. People are anticipating the worst as the stuff decays in the summer sun. > [@](#): > > [Marine scientist Andrew] Thaler urged the crash victims to scoop the dense slime off their vehicles and to throw away their clothes because “hagfish slime is so tough and dense that scientists are looking into using it to create a natural Lycra.” ---
**Author:** ![Wonderful\_Woodhall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Wonderful\_Woodhall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderful_Woodhall)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/7 "2017-07-15T20:44:36Z")
Eeels? Yikes! :eek: The weirdest thing I have ever found in a vehicle, that shouldn’t have been there, is a couple of small spiders - definitely not any eels! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/8 "2017-07-15T21:26:13Z")
[Not available for comment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AckvdGbk4w) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/9 "2017-07-15T21:51:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Why would a truck be carrying several tons of live disgusting fish, besides the opportunity to create a nonlethal but yucky disaster (or the punchline to a joke)? Apparently they are a favored item in Korean cuisine. [Yum! Hagfish!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish#/media/File:Korean_cuisine-Kkomjangeo_bokkeum-01.jpg) From the Wiki article on them: > [@](#): > > The hagfish is kept alive and irritated by rattling its container with a stick, prompting it to produce slime in large quantities. This slime is used in a similar manner as egg whites in various forms of cookery in the region.[citation needed] ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/10 "2017-07-15T21:56:21Z")
When a bunch of slime fills your trunk With lots of icky gunk That’s a moray ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/11 "2017-07-15T21:58:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The hagfish is kept alive and irritated by rattling its container with a stick, prompting it to produce slime in large quantities. This slime is used in a similar manner as egg whites in various forms of cookery in the region. Can’t be worse than a soft-boiled egg. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/12 "2017-07-15T22:02:04Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > … but who uses the term “eelhole”? _“Hey, Shithook! Eat out my eelhole!”_ ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/13 "2017-07-15T23:45:51Z")
They picked a fine place to leave those loose eels. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/14 "2017-07-16T06:02:34Z")
The Oregonian headline writers outdid themselves in Saturday’s article on it. Couldn’t find it online, but the headline read: Eels on Wheels, Day 2: Returning to the Scene of the Slime ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/15 "2017-07-16T21:22:36Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > They picked a fine place to leave those loose eels. “…a fine slime”, but still, _:golf clap:_ Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/16 "2017-07-16T22:33:21Z")
This reminds me of that bit Top Gear did on a Kia Ce’ed called “When You’re a sodium and eel salesman”. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vehicle-is-full-of-eels/791213/17 "2017-07-16T22:36:39Z")
Is it common for people to call hagfish eels?