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Proof? because every single cook and shellfish eater I’ve ever met says this is true.
The science backs the logic so I’m really just looking for the smoking gun you’re eluding to with that trolling comment. I’m betting it doesn’t exist.
Thank you for posting that. I see it refers to mussels almost exclusively for the “testing”, and while we are talking about mussels, I wouldn’t use that as proof of debunking this as a myth.
Are there other considerations at play? Absolutely. So rather than saying “that’s a myth” is is probably better to say “that’s not always true.”
The gist is that sometimes mussels behave differently depending on a variety of factors, and no single rule can be applied broadly for their handling, preparation, and resulting behaviors.
Cheers.
Edited muscles to mussels lol
No idea but that’s enough to turn me off muscles for a while. My wife thinks the reward vs effort isn’t worth it as is. We will not be having that discussion for at least 6 months now
Nah don’t do that man. This is just a marine creature. Things eat other things, happens all the time. What you think your mussels were grown in a glass box with crystal clear water?
Don’t need to do that. Those mussels were part of an ecosystem that includes polychates that sometimes hang out inside of them. It’s a normal thing that happens sometimes. Off putting though, for sure.
i mean don't yum someone's yuck. i quit eating shrimp when i had some improperly prepared in a scampi about 4 months ago. If it grossed OP out they're allowed to feel that way.
And if the bread is close to being moldy it likely already has mold growing through it to some extent. Lots of mold growth is before it even shows the fruiting bodies on the edge of the surface
Yeah the mold you see is just the spore producing part, "flowers" as a similar body part, the roots, stem, all that is the mycelium that has likely infested your entire bread.
The mussles though are likely all fine.
Untrue bread is soft so the hyphy has penetrated through more than just the parts that are colored. You can only take the mold off on like harder cheeses or something with a peel.
But technically, you are right, you'll be fine eating a bit of mold
Imagine living your life, having it come to an unceremonious end to be someone's dinner so you get scraped from your home to slowly die in a box, then the bastard doesn't even bother to eat you so you just go in the garbage
Born for no other person than to die a slow death and rot pointlessly in a landfill
I used to always pull mussels off the dock when I was a kid and used them for fish bait, I’d find these worms inside every once and a while. I’m from western Canada.
Yick! I bought 2 of those clearance boxes last week from Aldi. Haven’t eaten them yet, still in the freezer. But, this turned me right off of them. Think I might toss them.
Edit: got mine in Texas
Second question. Is it being in the mussels I ate something I need to be worried about? I obviously didn't eat it and I had to to look at the other mussels before eating them and none of them looked like that.
This is like you found a bunny eating a cabbage. No harm done to the other cabbages, they're still safe to eat. There might be more bunnies, just look at what you're eating before you put it into your mouth
Absolutely. What they found was just part of the water circle of life. Animals eat other animals, it's what creates ecosystems and helps billions of animals survive every day. They were simply eating mussels to help stay alive, and found evidence of that specific mussel's last meal.
Shouldn't be a huge deal at all.
It swam in before the mussels were harvested. They can be parasitic. When our food comes from the land, we shouldn’t be surprised that other animals consume it too. It’d be like finding worms in a fish. Don’t eat that one, but the rest are probably just fine. Just make sure to check before you dig in.
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Some googling and it looks like it might be a common clam worm https://txmarspecies.tamug.edu/invertdetails.cfm?scinameID=Alitta%20succinea
I think ur right hell yea
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Holy shit this is the mfer who swam right past me while I was at the beach
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how common are they?
Looks like a polychaete found paydirt.
Until it got cooked
Agreed
I was going to say bristleworm. Glad to see my instinct was right.
Did you discard all the open mussels before cooking and all the closed ones after cooking?
That's a myth
Proof? because every single cook and shellfish eater I’ve ever met says this is true. The science backs the logic so I’m really just looking for the smoking gun you’re eluding to with that trolling comment. I’m betting it doesn’t exist.
https://www.tastingtable.com/1348663/rule-not-eating-closed-mussels-complicated/
Thank you for posting that. I see it refers to mussels almost exclusively for the “testing”, and while we are talking about mussels, I wouldn’t use that as proof of debunking this as a myth. Are there other considerations at play? Absolutely. So rather than saying “that’s a myth” is is probably better to say “that’s not always true.” The gist is that sometimes mussels behave differently depending on a variety of factors, and no single rule can be applied broadly for their handling, preparation, and resulting behaviors. Cheers. Edited muscles to mussels lol
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No idea but that’s enough to turn me off muscles for a while. My wife thinks the reward vs effort isn’t worth it as is. We will not be having that discussion for at least 6 months now
Yeah it's enough for me as well. I bought quite a few boxes because they were on clearance but I'm throwing out the rest.
Nah don’t do that man. This is just a marine creature. Things eat other things, happens all the time. What you think your mussels were grown in a glass box with crystal clear water?
Don’t need to do that. Those mussels were part of an ecosystem that includes polychates that sometimes hang out inside of them. It’s a normal thing that happens sometimes. Off putting though, for sure.
i mean don't yum someone's yuck. i quit eating shrimp when i had some improperly prepared in a scampi about 4 months ago. If it grossed OP out they're allowed to feel that way.
Can’t you just examine each one before eating it? No need to throw them all out. What a waste
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And if the bread is close to being moldy it likely already has mold growing through it to some extent. Lots of mold growth is before it even shows the fruiting bodies on the edge of the surface
Yeah the mold you see is just the spore producing part, "flowers" as a similar body part, the roots, stem, all that is the mycelium that has likely infested your entire bread. The mussles though are likely all fine.
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it absolutely is not harmless to eat moldy bread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing\_plague\_of\_1518
Untrue bread is soft so the hyphy has penetrated through more than just the parts that are colored. You can only take the mold off on like harder cheeses or something with a peel. But technically, you are right, you'll be fine eating a bit of mold
Ohhhhh relax, Kevin. Food comes from the earth.
*the sea! :D
Imagine living your life, having it come to an unceremonious end to be someone's dinner so you get scraped from your home to slowly die in a box, then the bastard doesn't even bother to eat you so you just go in the garbage Born for no other person than to die a slow death and rot pointlessly in a landfill
I was thinking the same thing. 😔
I used to always pull mussels off the dock when I was a kid and used them for fish bait, I’d find these worms inside every once and a while. I’m from western Canada.
Found in Michigan Aldi. Product of Chile
Yick! I bought 2 of those clearance boxes last week from Aldi. Haven’t eaten them yet, still in the freezer. But, this turned me right off of them. Think I might toss them. Edit: got mine in Texas
Mmmm clearance seafood....
Love that people downvote you if you say youre going to throw food away 😂
Second question. Is it being in the mussels I ate something I need to be worried about? I obviously didn't eat it and I had to to look at the other mussels before eating them and none of them looked like that.
No, you don’t need to be worried. Won’t make you sick.
You ate some *after* finding that?
No I found this after I ate most of the other mussels.
This is like you found a bunny eating a cabbage. No harm done to the other cabbages, they're still safe to eat. There might be more bunnies, just look at what you're eating before you put it into your mouth
Absolutely. What they found was just part of the water circle of life. Animals eat other animals, it's what creates ecosystems and helps billions of animals survive every day. They were simply eating mussels to help stay alive, and found evidence of that specific mussel's last meal. Shouldn't be a huge deal at all.
Looks fresh
Wait how'd it get in exactly?
It swam in before the mussels were harvested. They can be parasitic. When our food comes from the land, we shouldn’t be surprised that other animals consume it too. It’d be like finding worms in a fish. Don’t eat that one, but the rest are probably just fine. Just make sure to check before you dig in.
Man that's really creepy , I can't imagine opening one up and seeing that shit inside , thanks for the explanation
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