SC - Re: Shellfish

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- -Poster: Jean Holtom <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>
 
>> In Europe there is a tradition of not eating shellfish unless there is
>an >R in the month, and it is a fact that the PSP risk season is mainly
>from >May to August. 
>>Tim

>The prohibition about eating shellfish in the 'non-R' months has to do
>with their breeding times, which are in the summer months.  From what you
>said about the toxins a female puffer fish exudes, the connection may
>well be sexual in nature.  (As, ultimately, so many things are ;)
>Christianna

The rule we have about not eating fish unless there's an R in the month also 
extends to certain types of meat (pork in particular).  It's a sort of "wise 
rule" that's handed down from mother to daughter about when it is considered 
safe to cook certain things, and as far as I was ever told it was because the 
lower "R month" winter temperatures kept meat/fish etc. safe to eat, whereas 
you ran the risk of becoming ill as the food would spoil quicker in the 
"non-R" months.  I have not heard about it being connected to breeding times 
of fish.   :-) 

Elysant
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