Terrapin used in a sentence

Terrapin in a sentence as a noun

Ironically, fried fois gras is probably nowadays a more elevated dish than terrapin.

The terrapin is not intrinsically a more charming dose; in fact, many "uncultured" people would instinctively recoil at eating turtles.

It's an amusing read, but he freely admits that he doesn't get Veblen and that is correct:> Do I prefer terrapin à la Maryland to fried liver because plow-hands must put up with the liver—or because the terrapin is intrinsically a more charming dose?This misses out Veblen's central argument in "The Theory".