Tonight, I Ate Boogers...

I do not wish to meet the man who decided it was a good idea to eat any kind of seafood that comes in a shell. Oysters, mussles, clams, whatever; each one apparently contains some sort of edible snot that many people claim to "love".

Like a kindergardner deciding for the first time that its ok to eat paste or something, this is just not right. Tonight, Jenny and I went out to dinner to a Belgian restaurant with another couple, who decided that mussles would be a great start to the meal. Well, being the evil kineval sort of dare-devil that I am, I agreed to try one of these seafood marinated boogers.

Accompanied by my cornucopia of micro-brewed beer samples, I recieved my inaugural mussle which I pried from it's shell with my fork. Shades of brown, black and green covered in a haze of slime shimmered before me. Just looking at this slimeball on my fork made me truly wonder why I was agreeing to pop this mucus morsel into my mouth. 1,2,3...in it goes. Apparently, mussles are cooked, but by the texture inside my mouth, I really couldn't tell if I just ate a mussle or just cleared my sinus cavities.

But in the end, I guess it wasn't that bad; just a little chewy little seafood blob; people out there eat worse stuff. I applaud you raw oyster people, you truly are braver than I'll ever be in my culinary delights. Bravo, bravo.