those are from new zealand , and even tho they kiwi's think it's the best
tasting , the pacific blue is like "butter" in fact , steamed served up with
drawn basil butter and you've got some good eat'n to be had,,,,mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Bush" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: You never know where you'll find shells


> 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
>