The Tennessee mussel book (Parmalee and Bogan) quotes from the diary
of a hungry Confederate soldier who along with some of his buddies
tried cooking a mess of the local unionids while they were camped in
Tennessee.  It sounds suspiciously like they overcooked them on the
first try and then tried to solve the problem by cooking them again as
many ways as they could.  They were able to ingest them after
chopping, breading, and frying, but did not sleep well.

I once ran across a TV show with the Bush Tucker man, i.e. Australian
wilderness survival.  He was able to catch fish, crayfish, and hyriid
mussels.  He cooked all three but didn't eat the mussels.

On the other hand, the large prehistoric middens indicate some use of
unionoids for food, and in some parts of the world they are harvested
at a relatively subsistence level, so if you know what you are doing
it's possible to render them edible.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ellen Bulger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thoughts on this?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDlxWr1ugMI
>
>



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Dr. David Campbell
Visiting Professor
Department of Natural Sciences
Gardner-Webb University
Boiling Springs NC 28017

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