When I think Kansas, I think seafood.

Or not.

Mussels from Prince Edward Island (that’s in Canada) in Kansas. Locavores rejoice.

I can’t wait to get back to Brisbane. Cooler times are on the way, and that means better fish. This was part of the weekly mailer from the local fish monger for what’s available:

• live mudcrabs in Friday – call us to have one cooked

• whole fresh Rainbow Trout in today

• fresh green Tiger Prawns straight from Moreton Bay

• cooked and green Moreton Bay Bugs

• fresh fillet – barramundi, gold band snapper, Tassie & NZ salmon

• ocean trout

• Hervey Bay 1/2 shell scallops

• Coffin Bay oysters

• fresh local squid (apparently delicious stuffed with pork mince, need to try that).

Seafood is cooked in our house, for a variety of reasons, and perhaps should be at the home of Rick Beattie in Belfast, who found a large parasitic louse in the mouth of his sea bass dinner.

Beattie, who had purchased the fish at a Tesco location in Belfast, was promised a refund after he brought the incident to the grocery’s attention. “It was like something from a horror film,” Beattie said, according to SWNS.com. “I’m sure other Tesco customers would be interested.”

The parasite, known as the tongue-eating louse or Cymothoa exigua, enters a fish through its gills and attaches itself to the creature’s tongue. Once in place, the louse destroys the fish’s tongue, replacing it. The louse does not appear to hurt the fish in any other way. They’re not believed to be dangerous to humans, although they can bite if picked up alive.

A Tesco spokesman stressed that the company wishes to undertake an “an urgent and thorough investigation” of the fish’s supplier, Yahoo writes. “We have very high standards for food quality,” he said. “[B]oth we and our suppliers have robust checks in place to ensure that our food meets those standards.” It has asked Beattie to provide the fish in question to aid the investigation.