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Hello,
The only green mussels I've ever seen were frozen and surely not
from Greece. I've been a lot of time in Greece and I've never seen
such mussels ! Perhaps George could confirm.
Sophie, from France !
>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.
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>Thanks,
>Linda Bush
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