Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:35:47 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

First #mussels for me this year :yum:

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Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:33:51 +0200

ottonafo 🇺🇦

ottona@mastodon.social

@hans bit late but still... 😉

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:38:08 +0200

ottonafo 🇺🇦

ottona@mastodon.social

@hans oh, and bon appetit!

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:40:28 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@ottona Well, actually september is supposed to be the best time for them in this region. They weren't at their best, that was for sure. But once I sat down there and smelled mussels, I just had to order them ;-)

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:22:00 +0200

ottonafo 🇺🇦

ottona@mastodon.social

@hans oh, that i didn't know, as a dude from a landlocked AT i have had moules on countless vacations in france around july. damn, i miss that taste, frozen options around here are just not the same. 😃

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:34:10 +0200

Adam Hunt

gander22h@diasp.org

Glad to hear it worked out!

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:39:39 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@ottona You don't want them frozen and defrosted, indeed. I live very close to the absolute mussels hotspot in our country: Yerseke. Mussels are grown in the Oosterschelde, and if you ate mussels in France, there's a fair chance they came from Yerseke.

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 23:01:56 +0200

ottonafo 🇺🇦

ottona@mastodon.social

@hans very interesting read. and hey, look here: "The mussels are grown and harvested entirely at sea in a mostly natural process."
no sad monoculture, just let the sea do its job. 👍

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 23:07:42 +0200

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

Only ate them once, and yes, my bad luck, got sick like never before.

The funny thing is that I love seafood a lot more the meat. I was always first in line to taste new fish. I build a crab cage with out cook on board of a ship and we at it for at least five days :-) I still let these shell-fish pass but hope you had a nice meal.

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 23:44:22 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@ottona

no sad monoculture, just let the sea do its job.

Mussels and oysters in the Oosterschelde were an important reason to build the Oosterscheldekering. It would have been a lot easier and cheaper to just build a dam and close the Oosterschelde off, but that would mean the salt water would turn sweet, and the entire shellfish industry would disappear.

The ships that were built for the construction of the Oosterscheldekering were named after them: Mytilus (mussel), Ostrea (oyster), Cardium (clam) and Macoma (also a sort of clam).

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:27:32 +0200

ottonafo 🇺🇦

ottona@mastodon.social

@hans that finally brings me to one todo off my list of read-ons: the Deltawerken. cheers!

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 02:58:19 +0200

Thomas

coastgnu@norden.social

@hans

Hhm, here in Friesland, oost, afaik the same in west, there is a saying, #mussels only in months that end on 'r'!

Having mussels in August can become a thrill.

Ick hoop man dat nix narblevd!

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 03:03:24 +0200

Thomas

coastgnu@norden.social

@hans

'Frietjes met Kruidensaus', 24/7 if you ask me but 'mosselen' in August?

Bold, IMHO.

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 12:04:33 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@coastGNU

#mussels only in months that end on 'r'!

Same here, indeed. But I figured it's almost september ;-)

Besides, once I smelled mussels, I just couldn't help myself: I had to have mussels. But they weren't really good yet, I'll have to go back next month and see if they're better then :yum:

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 21:43:02 +0200

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

with all the sewage the brits are spilling into the north sea, might it not be dangerous to eat these organic water filters? i had heard some years ago that it was nearly poisonous to eat mussels and oysters from the southern french atlantic coast due to coli bacteria or similar ...

but nonetheless: guten appetit ... :-)

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 23:26:04 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Oh yes, we are strongly recommended not to eat stuff from the Westerschelde, because of all the PFAS that is dumped into it in Antwerp. But the Oosterschelde, where our mussels come from, is considered clean.