The Bubbo wrote:

>
> I tried mussels from a chinese buffet once on a dare. They tasted...metallic.
> Ew.
>

I used to like them. One day about 20 years ago I came home to find my wife
extremely ill. She was almost as sick as I had been once from food poisoning. She
had had mussels for lunch. My food poisoning was the worst thing that has ever
happened to me in my life. To see someone her go through it from mussels just
turned me right off them. I haven't had a mussel since, and she gets a frightened
look at the mere mention of them.