"Lazarus Cooke" > wrote

>
> People have been eating shellfish for a very, very long time. As long
> as there have been humans at all. Probably longer.
>

The notorious (and early extinct) Karankawa, resident on the barrier
isleands of the Texas coast were not blest by many of the advantages of
sophistication and apparenly survived for much of the year on shellfish and
crusty aceans (of all shapes and sizes), leaving no memorials except massive
shell mounds left from countless breakfasts and dinners beside the seas or
the bays.

In the months without an "R" in the name, they became well known among
Europeans for their habit of dining upon stranded Conquistadors, monks,
nuns, assorted settlers and family members, notaries, and seamen cast ashore
on what seems to have been an inhospitable coast. The Kronks must have
been fairly hungry, for they left no bone piles to mark the habit that
caused authors of the period to record their habits indelibly in many
journals and accounts.

TMO