Abalone has pushed men to spend all of their cash on fun-filled trips to craggy nooks where they don wetsuits and dive in to depths where no human should really be going, all for the sake of having the chance to yank abalone off of their natural rock habitats that they call home, scoop them out and have a giant abalone oyster slurp of a meal, or to beat the muscle material to tenderness before flash-frying or grilling them.
Many people have never even heard of abalone, which would come as some surprise to those whose communities have sustained themselves by hunting and selling them for generations, and to the various fanatics that are willing to pay an arm and a leg and then some for their favorite variety of this rare delicacy.