The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and summer vacation is coming soon. At this time, adults will tell children to stay away from water sources, let alone go swimming or bathing in wild rivers and lakes without permission.

But a few decades ago, rural children often soaked in water in summer. At that time, for many rural children, almost all of them were swimming experts.

The lakes and rivers in rural areas are a "treasure bowl", which can not only bring countless things to rural children It is fun, and at the same time, you can always find a lot of unexpected harvests. Some small fish and shrimps are very common, and sometimes you can pick up and touch a lot of river mussels.

But it is also very strange to say that at that time, crabs, loaches, river shrimps and various small fish could be caught and eaten, but river mussels were not very popular, and almost no one picked them up. Come and eat. Even if they are picked up, most of them are cut open with a knife and thrown to chickens, ducks, or fed to pigs.

Can river clams be eaten? If it can be eaten, why doesn’t anyone eat it? Especially in recent years, we often see river mussels in some fish ponds and rivers, but no one picks them up and eats them?

Can river clams be eaten? The answer is yes!

As a kind of mollusk, river clams are edible like river clams and snails, and their nutritional value is very high. Their deliciousness is not inferior to that of oysters.

Although most people in rural areas do not eat river mussels, some people have eaten them. Some people quite like eating it. I have a friend whose family likes to eat river mussels.

If you see it in the market, you will usually buy it and eat it. Sometimes when he heard that nearby reservoirs and fish ponds were drying up, he would carry a bucket to pick up river mussels.

Because when I was a child, I often went to the river to pick up mussels. Once I picked up a large basin, which weighed dozens of kilograms. At that time, I was crying and asking my parents to cook for me. At first, I thought river mussels were very delicious, but after taking a few bites, I realized that they were really unpalatable. Not only were they hard to chew, but they also had a strong fishy smell, which was worse than fishy. It smells bad. The bowl was so full that no one in the family even took a few bites, and then they poured it out to feed the pigs.

Since then, no one in my family eats river mussels anymore because they all say they are very difficult to eat. eat. But then I went to my friend's house to eat dry-pot river mussels, and found that they were very delicious. This friend of mine also changed my understanding of river mussels. It turns out that river mussels can be so delicious. It is no exaggeration to call them "river delicacies".