Feliz Cumpleanos Slug!!!
And regarding that salad....true story:
In the mid 90's I worked for Vision Service Plan, local vision insurance company, and every year they have a semi to formal dinner dance in January. This particular year it was at the Sacramento Convention Center downtown. The theme was the 20's - gansters and flappers. My boss, and several co-workers all sat at the same table. The servers bring out the salads, you know, fancy greens, and lettuce with names I don't know how to pronounce...So anyway, we're having small talk, when my boss just stops mid sentence, and you guessed it, there was a live slug in her salad.

It was still whole and sliming it's was across her salad. Everyone at that table just stopped, pushed their plates away from them, and put their forks down. Another co-worker grabbed the plate and ran to locate the food manager. They basically told her, "Well, it's very fresh salad, and we can't check every single leaf for this many salads. Would she like another salad?" Of course she didn't want another salad. And there wasn't really anything else we could do. We were all pretty surprised by the lack of concern. In the after party survey, we ripped the caterer. And the next year the party was held else where. So there ya go....