Our Calabash Seafood Buffet also offers Mussels….what exactly is shellfish called mussels? The answer is pretty interesting and fascinating at the same time. Mussels are nature’s kind of marine clams. Like those shells that you often could find on a beach in a sand. They have a hard shell on outside, and very soft inside. And technically, mussel is a mollusk that lives in a water. Mollusk – like oysters, octopus, snails or clams. The scientific name for the group to which most mussels belong, called clams. These amazing creatures, is like live water filters. They move through themselves as much as eight to ten gallons of water per day, through their internal filtration system, just like a wet sponge. They constantly, non-stop pump water through them, just to feed and breathe. What they eat exactly, is a mystery for scientists, but it’s been…
