Things Aren't What they Seem

This will really date me but remember when eel purses, belts, and wallets were all the rage? I remember in the 80's when my sweet husband spent his hard-earned money to buy me a beautiful burgundy eel skin purse and wallet. Yeah, I thought I was so "snap" with my big hair, shoulder pads, and eel skin accessories. Mind you when I think of the eels they use for these exotic purses, belts, and wallets I think of an ocean diver risking life and limb to capture electric eels in the depths of the ocean. Well, last night as we were watching "Dirty Jobs", Mike Rowe was off the coast of Maine fishing for eels. They pulled up thousands of eels from the depths of the ocean floor that looked like large worms that secrete this totally disgusting slime, therefore they are called "slime eels". I won't even go into detail about what exactly this slime is for, but can it ever be a good thing when slime is involved? These are sold to an Asian country where they make none other than the eel purses like I have! So not as exotic as I was thinking. Makes me wonder about my "lambskin" leather jacket, please tell me that it just feels like lambskin, and isn't really.....(gulp).