Tom Eichhorst wrote:
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> Doesn't sound all that good even in theory to me.  I view such proposals with massive amounts of suspicion and apprehension.
> Sorry to wax so negative here, guess I need to go play with my granddaughter a while and regain a more positive perspective.

* and just exactly which "Asian Oyster" is this? If it's the Crassostrea
gigas that has paved over the fiords of British Columbia, it may doom
your granddaughter to a diet that's been described as "blobs of mucus"
(though properly prepared they are quite tasty, but nothing like an
Atlantic or native Pacific Oyster).

fred.
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