I have observed similarly scooped out chitons in the Bahamas; the
radulae were also left behind.

The Parmalee and Bogan Tennessee mussel book quotes from the diary of
a hungry Confederate soldier who tried cooking some unionids.  It
sounds suspiciously as though he and his buddies overcooked them on
the first try and then kept cooking them more to see if it would help.
 It didn't.  Similarly, flipping channels once turned up the "Bush
Tucker Man", i.e., an Australian demonstrating living off the land.
He found some crayfish, fish, and hyriid mussels and tried cooking all
three, but only actually ate the first two.  However, the large
middens suggest that Native Americans had figured out a way to consume
them, and unionoids do turn up in native markets in some parts of the
world.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM, David Kirsh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In Pacific Oaxaca, I noticed piles of chitons, which had had their feet
> scooped out, were on nearly every beach. I had never thought of them as food
> before. What about in other areas of the globe?
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