Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>Joe Cilinceon wrote:
>
>> It was my understanding from what I have read about mad cow disease is you
>> don't tend to get it from mussel meats but from eating the organs such as
>> kidneys, liver, brain, tongue etc. and I very well could be wrong on this.
>
>Hmmm. Why isn't tongue considered a muscle meat, it being a muscle and
>all?

Because it doesn't have the muscle-meat marketability?

Tongue is an old-school deli regular, though.

--Blair