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In article >,
Janet Baraclough > wrote:

> The message >
> from (Steve Pope) contains these words:
>
> > K > wrote:
>
> > >I'm in New England, and buy fressh scallops often enough to know that they
> > >are very wet, almost mushy.
>
> > Are they any wetter than other bivalves such as oysters, clams,
> > or mussels?
>
> > The time I've had fresh scallops in the shell, they were pretty
> > much like mussels. But with a larger adductor muscle relative
> > to the main body of the animal.
>
> > (I do not know if this means they can snap extra hard, or
> > whatever...)
>
> The larger adductor muscle is because scallops are mobile "swimmers"
> which travel by opening and shutting their shells.
> Oysters and mussels are marine couch potatoes who spend most of their
> life attached to a rock; they only have to open and shut their shells to
> filter
> food from the water so their flesh is softer and less toned :-)
>
> Janet

Very true! <g> I guess clams are so meaty because they burrow thru sand!
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