Hello,

The only green mussels  I've ever seen were frozen and surely not
from Greece. I've been a lot of time in Greece and I've never seen
such mussels ! Perhaps George could confirm.

Sophie, from France !




>Hi!
>     Monday I took my husband out for a birthday lunch at a Chinese
>buffet, and there on the steam table, labelled "Greek Mussels" was
>not an "edulis" but a mussel with emerald green periostracum, with
>brown longitudinal stripes.  The only "green"
>mussel I could find in my books was "viridis,"  which is not from
>Greece.  (Could the recipe have been Greek?)   Does anyone know what
>I have (of course, I brought the shells home; too bads I couldn't
>get the matching valves, short of going through their dumpster later
>that night, and my husband would have said a definite NO to that).
>Does anyone know what I might have.   It does look as if there is
>one tooth in one valve, and two in the other, but I'm not sure of
>that.
>
>Thanks,
>Linda Bush