One of these creatures had nested itself in the cabbages that the cabbage merchant intended on ferrying over to Ba Sing Se to trade. However, the passport attendant of Full Moon Bay denied the crops as a precautionary measure, knowing that they may be infested with more cabbage slugs. She subsequently ordered for them to be disposed of, feeding the produce to a platypus bear. Her decision was justified when a cabbage slug was released from one of the destroyed cabbages.