"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:05:36 -0500, "jmcquown"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Does this sound about right?
>>
>> Good luck! IMO: If they are already frozen they are dead. I tried
>> frozen once and it was a complete flop. Never again.
>
> Well, he's had them before and told me they open up. Most people know you
> should not eat mussels that don't open. So really, I can't imagine why
> they'd sell them this way if they knew they were dead.
>
> Jill
>
>

That's not logical. When they're alive in their native environment, they're
constantly washed with sal****er, which keeps them from freezing. Take them
out of the water and freeze them, and I *suspect* it will kill them. But, if
freezing is the only way to ship them to the backwater places, then that's
what you get. Just cook the things.