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# This is also lovely.
You have talent.


Manwife was just eating a mussel, and found a tiiiiny pearl in it. Do mussels make pearls, or had this one mugged someone? It's definitely a little pearl, about 3mm diameter.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 15:51, archived)
# Lucky him.
I once found a tiny tiny crab in a clam.
I decided not to eat it.
edit: the crab, that is. I ate the clam.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 15:54, archived)
# Ace.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 16:00, archived)
# I suggest you make a really shit necklace.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 15:54, archived)
# Yup - they can
but not so often in sea-based mussels, I think.
It's just an inorganic/protein coating they give to bits of sand. A lot of molluscs can do it, just oysters do it better. Fresh-water pearls come from fresh-water mussles.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 15:55, archived)
# I have kept it.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 16:00, archived)
# I have some mussels
to do mariniƩre style later plus a tossed salad with clams. It's my Dad's birthday and we are having a party.
and yes, mussels make pearls as has been mentioned.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 16:00, archived)
# He is seafood mad.
Especially whole baby octupae (octupi?). Loves em.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 16:01, archived)
# We have some
frozen squid in the freezer. I might just flash fry it and chuck it in the salad with the rocket.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 16:02, archived)
# That sounds lovely.
I'm about to go round a mate's house to be fed PROPER spaghetti somethingorother.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 16:06, archived)
# proper spaghetti sauce
made by proper spaghettis beats all.
(, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 16:27, archived)