APPLESAUCE! (Mussellman’s or Motts’, no matter)

Poor Richard declares applesauce to be great with prawns, especially while playing
footsie under the table.

Interesting new format, folks. I’m learning more about superstition all the time.
Does anyone know any effective formulas for catching panfish? Spitting on the
bait isn’t working very well right now.

By the way, didn’t we have a cartoon on this site a few comments ago? Something about dwarfed and specially deformed idiots? I wonder what was special about those deformities? You show me yours, I’ll show you mine.

Prawns are primarily bottom dwellers. One rather destructive method of catching them involves a boat slowly dragging a chain across the sea floor to make them swim up a little, into the mouth of the following net. I’m not sure if efforts to ban this method around here ever came to anything.

Thank you for not inflaming my uncontrollable passions with the sight of your shoe?

They tended to save their outrage for the really important things in life, like whether a woman whose feet could be seen below the abaya was guilty of inflaiming passions or not, or whether a huge riot over a Westerner touching a Koran (yes, just touching) was justified. As I recall, the Frenchman concerned lost an eye in the incident.

Thin shelled? Not a bit of it…

Indeed. ‘…Also, they are thin shelled…At this point they are dangerous as the thin shells are sharp…’ Mmm…

Might almost think there could be two meanings here.

Never tried them with applesauce, but fresh mussels with white wine and garlic are pretty good. Don’t think you could get them in the Alps though. I’d stick with the fondue. I believe it is an ongoing moot point, whether mussels (and other shellfish) are haraam or not.

Iodine deficiency, btw, I believe – the cause of cretinism.

Also, they are thin shelled. Treading on them will usually leave them broken and expelling the contents of their guts. At this point they are dangerous as the thin shells are sharp can result in a nasty slice.

The lives of the mussels are regulated by the moon and the sun. They must fast whenever the tide is out and open themselves sometimes four times a day to feed as the surf line moves past them.

Barnacles compete with the mussels for territory. They too will use a rock for their foundation. Sometimes they will be found nearby each other on the same shore, but they keep themselves segregated for the most part and there is a line where a quiet but deadly battle slowly takes place.