This is a singular example of David Teniers´ indoor scenes. The kitchen or tavern utensils so common in his other works are completed here with a magnificent show of diverse fruit and vegetables. This converts the right part of the composition into a still life. On the left, a character shells mussels, a traditional foodstuff in the Low Countries, while another group works beside the fireplace. There is an appreciable evolution in the artist´s way of approaching these indoor scenes, with greater use of color, as can be seen in the main figure´s hat and cap, and in the vegetables. Teniers also replaces the dark tonality of previous works with a greater presence of light and highlights on the brilliant colors. This work, of which there are other versions, can be dated thanks to the drawing in the background.