Paul, the shells in my aquarium always ate everything else and left the
muscle.  If they ate it it was the last thing that they ate.  Maybe they
were leaving it for me.

Bob

Monfils, Paul wrote:
>
> While we are still engrossed in culinary conchology, let me ask a question I
> have always wondered about.  In the "clam" tribe and the "mussel" tribe, we
> eat everything but the shell.  Yet in the many species of the "scallop"
> tribe that are used as human food, only one small piece, the adductor muscle
> that holds the two shell valves together, is eaten.  This seems like an
> awful waste.  Why is this so?  Is it simply (as someone mentioned earlier)
> that the rest of a scallop just doesn't taste good?
> Paul M.

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