On 12/14/2013 7:15 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
True, but they would sure overcrowd the bowl! Even if I'd never had a
bad mussel, I don't want to pick the meat out of shells from a bowl of
soup. It sounds rather messy to me.

If I were going to make bouillabaisse (which I'm not, but thanks for
posting the link, sf!) I certainly wouldn't make it for *one*.

Jill