When I think fine dining in Manhattan (Kansas), I think seafood, specifically mussels.

It’s like that WKRP episode where Mr. Carlson comes up with a fund-raiser theme – Surf City, USA, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

I’ve eaten my share of mussels lately, and they all seem to come from Prince Edward Island – that’s in Canada, and a long way to ship a cheap bivalve (those are some New Zealand mussels, right).

Charlottetown, the provincial capital of the Rhode Island of the north, is reporting a probable outbreak of foodborne illness amongst 20 diners who ate at the Churchill Arms between 5 and 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7.

There is no food left for sampling from the suspect meals and the cause of the illness among those who were ill has not yet been confirmed. However, the symptoms reported are very suggestive of the Norwalk virus which has been identified in PEI recently in the community. The illness appears to have been limited to those who ate over the two and one half hour period that one night.