Stir-fried Crunchy Conch

As a child of eleven, working in my uncle’s restaurant, I disliked a number of things that I never got used to. One of them involved the preparing of conch. Every other Thursday in the summer season, as the youngest member of the kitchen staff, I had to go through an 80 lb burlap sack of live conch. I would break open the shells with a hammer, clean out the messy parts and salvage the edible