Fresh toasted tube grubs, he thought suddenly, and felt his mouth watering.

"Computer," he finally said after swallowing the last of his tube grubs, "play some music."

His voice sounded thick, as though he were speaking around a mouthful of tube grubs.

"Tell me you didn't puree any tube grubs for this."

The fact of the matter was, the syndicate could crush him like a tube grub, and Quark knew it.

Gaila approached the huge ceramic bowl of tube grubs and took a few for himself.

The tube grub felt like ashes in Quark's mouth.

He grabbed another tube grub, then put it down uneaten.

Gaila, who had by this time swallowed the tube grubs, actually smiled at that.

Mechter was going to squash him like a tube grub.