reminds me of Whistle Down the Wind" film… y’all get served that until ya eat it all up…
That said, I think I liked them after the first one 
We were eating at the in-laws and had lobster bisque to start, no she didn’t make it herself.
Catherine demanded that she had some and finished her bowl with gusto.
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From the age of 6 or 7, our grandson’s favourite dish is moules marinieres, always his choice when out to lunch. Haven’t seen him for two years (Covid) so hope he still likes them next time he visits.
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we are having stuffed mussels today and turbot fillet
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I think my fave mussel dish is moules à la grand-mere.
There’s a restaurant in the back end of Le Touquet which specialises in moules curry dishes which we frequented frequently…
A Table Touquet-Paris-Plage
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Favourite seafood? That’s a big one - never mind Proust’s madeleines!
1977 Gabès, Tunisia - discovering a wild oyster bed at the mouth of the river that flowed from the oasis (Muslims don’t eat shellfish).
1988-93 The Union Oyster House, Boston http://unionoysterhouse.com/ Hot humid summer days when it was too much to work in the studio in the North End, we’d decamp to the nearby Oyster House for lunch, sitting at the horse-shoe shaped, zinc-topped bar with white porcelain plates of Littleneck and Cherrystone clams washed down with draught Sam Adams. Afterwards we’d go down to the Aquarium and head out on the ocean for a whale watch. Hard to beat.
Later in the Nineties, each November I’d drive the 900kms from Grahamstown to Cape Town (external examiner at the University’s Fine Art Dept). On the Garden Route, I’d do an overnight stay on the Knysna lagoon and have a dozen of the local (warm water Indian Ocean) oysters and the following lunchtime in CT have a similar number of Namibian oysters from the icy waters of the South Atlantic. There was no comparison -simply confirmed what I’d been learning in Boston - the best shellfish come from cold waters.
Unfortunately there’s a sad postscript to this personal history, three Christmases ago I spent the afternoon vomiting in the bathroom having had half a dozen oysters mid-morning with some champagne. Two Christmases ago exactly the same thing happened, but much worse - thought I was going to die! I seem to have developed a severe allergy and so the very last Christmas was oysterless, nevertheless there’s still an intuitive yearning whenever I pass the stalls with their wooden baskets of oysters.
By the way, haven’t noticed any charities calling attention to my tragic condition!
I had a boss who had the same problem, Mark, so you’re not alone. Mind you, he was also knocked down by a tram in Vienna and he didn’t become allergic to trams! 
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Moules are my favourite shellfish. The best ones I ever had were at a little restaurant on the quiet side of Kotor Bay in Montenegro.
I used to like salmon until I became aware of issues with them.
Now I prefer tiger prawns.
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If they’re farmed, (which most of them are for European markets) they are fed on processed fish meal, made from everything that can possibly be caught.
Bad for the oceans.
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I love seafood but have pretty well given up eating it, for ecological reasons. There should be a 25 year moratorium on all and any fishing, a ban or very very strict regulation of fish prawn etc farming and we should be cleaning up oceans and watercourses.
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Couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately it’s never going to happen voluntarily
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Well to me farmed salmon tastes disgusting and wild Salmon is great when you can find it