mushiness when cooked up is a sure sign the spot prawn heads were left on too long after it died. He said with heads on, there' s an enzyme that makes the flesh mushy when it dies, so unless you're cooking it very, very soon after death, remove the heads or buy them with heads removed.

For different people, shoes die in different ways. I know when my shoes are dead when the shank (kind of like the sole) is too flexible and is over bending and/or the box (the tip of the shoe) is very mushy. Sometimes, the box dies first and that mushiness causes over bending in the shank and sometimes the shank goes first which makes the box mushy. It depends really.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 8 words with the pattern M--H--E--. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter M and 4th letter H and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

machinery

menhadens

methylene

mightiest

mochiness

motherese

mushiness

mythopeic

Fish are mushy a) because they're harboring protozoa (thought not to be harmful to those who consume the fish--but who would eat mushy fish?); 2) they've been poorly handled--for instance, frozen & refrozen; 3as in the case of Alaskan halibut in the spring of 2012, the fishw as malnourished. You can't necessarily see, feel, or smell the mushiness in the market; but you should return it, if you can, & make sure the shop ceases to sell other slabs of that fish.

Fish are mushy a) because they're harboring protozoa (thought not to be harmful to those who consume the fish--but who would eat mushy fish?); 2) they've been poorly handled--for instance, frozen & refrozen; 3as in the case of Alaskan halibut in the spring of 2012, the fishw as malnourished. You can't necessarily see, feel, or smell the mushiness in the market; but you should return it, if you can, & make sure the shop ceases to sell other slabs of that fish.