Hi Liza, you said: >On the other hand, I've also been told you can die from some awful >superating sores that are growing on our local oysters, and yet I'll >eat those raw You lost me here. My dictionary has neither an entry for "superating" nor a useful explanation for "sore". I understand "sore" as "wounded". Please educate me. Liza: >Speaking of seafood body parts -- have you ever seen that thing >that sticks out of a clam shell? No, but one time I saw a "thing" that hung out of the mouth of a mackerel and wondered if it could be the tongue. A mackerel that made :D while being caught ???!!! No. It was a tiny fish that got eaten just in the moment when the mackerel died. Strange. Strange instinctive wishes, Stefan E-Mail: [log in to unmask]