On 12/14/2013 6:54 PM, jmcquown wrote:

> Hmmmm. Despite some people's apparent disbelief, I couldn't eat a pound
> of mussels in a bowl of soup!
>
> I do like mussels, though I did get a bad one once and wouldn't care to
> repeat that experience!
>

It must have been at last 25 years ago that my wife got sick on mussels
that she had had at lunch that day. She won't touch them anymore. It was
more than 40 years ago that I got a bad dose of food poisoning. She was
almost as sick as I had been. I suffered vicariously and lost my taste
for mussels. I was never all that thrilled about the. I thought they
were okay, but they are not worth the risk of getting that sick.


As for the bouillebaisse, a pound of mussels isn't a heck of a lot. They
are mostly shell and I don't know anyone who eats the shells.