"PeterL" > wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in
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>> "rrb" > wrote in message
>> news:tGP_g.3842$xI4.3450@fed1read11...
>>> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It is logical if you realize that she probably meant that they were
>>> dead before they were frozen. Not that they died during the freezing
>>> process.
>>
>> That's a disgusting thought. Probably illegal, too.
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> Not really. We have to do that with our Mud Crabs. Put them in the
> freezer (live) for about 20mins. It makes them 'go to sleep' and when
> you drop them in the boiling water, they don't throw their claws off.
>
> Same with Canetoads. A lot of people bag them and put them in the
> freezer as it is the 'humane' way to kill them. Not me though. I'd
> rather smack the shit out of the little mongrels with a 9 Iron :-)

OK, but rrb said they were dead before freezing. Whatever. I don't give a
shit. Where I shop, the mussels are two days from the ocean, live, in a mesh
bag.