On Wed, 17 May 2017 12:07:04 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 5/17/2017 10:32 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 May 2017 12:30:31 +0100, Janet > wrote:
>>
>>> In article >,
>>> says...
>>>> I will agree with you on the price of fish because I was with my
>>>> mother at the A&P when she bought halibut for $.17/pound (we ate a lot
>>>> of it because it was cheap -- even in Wisconsin) I have a hard time
>>>> with you recounting mussels tossed in for free. Mussels required work
>>>> to free them from the shell, giving them away would be negative
>>>> profit. It would make more sense to just leave the mussels in the
>>>> ocean
>>>>
>>>
>>> He's talking about scallops not mussels.
>>>
>>> Scallops and mussels are completely different shellfish (in looks,
>>> lifestyle, how to prepare and cook them, and taste.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Janet UK
>>>
>> I'm sorry. I thought they all came in a shell. I thought scallops
>> were of a general group of mussels. Scallops don't have a shell?
>> Janet US
>>
>Of course they do. They just aren't sold in the shell and aren't
>generally called "mussels".
>
>Jill
my point exactly. Why give scallops for free when it requires work to
remove them from the shell? My comment was tongue in cheek
Janet US