I agree with Julia Child:
The texture of cooked skate and scallop are utterly different. Skate is flaky
and falls apart easily, while scallop is spongier and vertically grained. I
can't
imagine confusing the two.
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Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca
http://www.intergate.bc.ca/personal/seashell/index.html
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