Buy abalone for your sweetie-pie, or maybe on your next weekend getaway. You could be in Canada, Australia, South Africa, even the dreaded Southern California, but no form of geographical boundary can stop you now, if you really want to buy abalone.
The practice may seem passé, like trying to impress a date with champagne and caviar, but champagne should be a part of the beginning and end of any great meal, and caviar is merely an appetizer, whereas one can buy abalone as a fine entrée, one that can be washed down with a zesty brew just as easily as a chummy dry white wine. Why didn't you buy abalone the last time you had a chance, you fool!