What's the deal with the tortoise dining ware?

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Gular-Scute — 16 years ago(August 08, 2009 04:44 PM)

It's rather macabre and difficult to comrehend, whatever school of semiotic analysis a person follows.

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Jazztiger — 16 years ago(August 09, 2009 04:13 PM)

What were they eating out of those dishes? Was it a related foodstuff?

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tmo811 — 16 years ago(March 13, 2010 07:14 PM)

Her parents were taxidermists. They stuffed animals for a livingremember her mom showing her the "scardy cats" she says they made a fortune off of them. Kinda ickybut an explanation.

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SataiDelen — 11 years ago(June 06, 2014 12:41 AM)

Yeah, and the mother/grandmother was also an eccentric, so the tortoise-shell "holder" was rather "normal" for someone like that, lol. I also took a guess that they were probably eating tortoise soup, which would explain Bernice's reluctance to eat it, and her "playing" with it by picking a spoonful up, and letting it drip/fall back into the bowl. I'm not sure I could bring myself to eat it either, lol.