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Food of love or Flem of the sea?

― Rumpie, Friday, 23 September 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

Phlegm

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

phlegm of the sea, ugh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

cheaper more convenient way to travel in london

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

Did you know the Aus Sign Language sign for oyster is one thumb pressed against the nostril with a "snrrk" face like you're snotting? :D

'strue!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

best food EVAR; all that 'ooh so aphromadisiackal' bobbins is entirely by the way, the point of them is that they are DELICIOUS. with shallott vinegar! with tabasco! with lemon! on their own! mmm, num. No matter how many intrestin-lookin recipies I find for them, I know full well that I'll never be capable of cooking them in a pie or what have you, not when to eat them raw and plain is such unalloyed JOY.

And back in season, too!

― spontine (cis), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

It's hard for them to be considered food of love when your Bloke turns out to be allergic, so instead of having a romantic moonlit walk on the beach on Magnetic Island, you're standing around fending off bush curlews while Bloke borks up loudly for an hour and a half.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Are you speaking from personal experience?

― Rumpie, Friday, 23 September 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry but I have the same opinion as Accentbloke on Oysters. Blech.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

hahaha "borks"!

I agree with Cis.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

My man attempted to eat one over the sink, whilst clamping him nose with his thumb and forefinger. I recoiled in horror as he retched evily, before eventually turning to me with his eyes streaming to tell me "I've done it! Down the hatch!"

Not very romantic, and I thank god we weren't in a restaurant at the time.

― Rumpie, Friday, 23 September 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

I love them. I really love them. I can't break the habit of using food to reward/ comfort myself, so instead of choosing chocolate or massive lumps of cheese and deli meat, I now buy oysters, between four and half a dozen and eat them happily and joyfully.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I really like them also, I like most seafood actually, quite alot. It's a Christmas tradition that we eat oysters, haha how upper middle class is that, but I think it actually is a tradition because my mum's family lived by the sea.

I think I probably like prawns even more than oysters, I can't stop getting prawn sandwiches at lunchtime in work. Plus they are oddly cheap too (2 euro) relative to everything else in crazy expensive Dublin.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Can you think of any other animals that are regularly eaten alive? Half the pleasure I get from eating oysters is knowing that they couldn't get any fresher, that they are alive when they hit my tongue.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I've been waiting for September to roll around so that I can go get some 25¢ oysters from The Flying Fish. However, with all the hurricanes, I wonder if that special is still in effect.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

tabasco is key. damn they're lovely.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

yuck

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I love oysters.

There was an incredible oyster bar in Vancouver near my hotel that had one of the deepest selection I've ever seen.

My tastes run toward the smaller, deeper ones rather than the flat, fleshy ones. Pacific rim mostly. Hama Hama, Hog Island, Kumamoto, and Coromandel are my faves. Yummy.

I eat them raw, with an occasional garnish or sea salt and/or lemon/yuzu zest.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Love them - if they're good ones.

Best ever had was in Australia a couple hourse drive north of Sydney. They grow in brackish water and are small and super-sweet. I can't remember the town where we were but it's famous for them.

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Tomales Bay oysters are the food of the gods. Tabasco, lemon, black-pepper and/or a dash of white wine. Down the hatch, man.

I once encountered a mexican hippy in San Blas wandering the rocks just gorging on raw oysters he'd pried loose... the good life, for sure.

― andy --, Friday, 23 September 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Tsk tsk. What would Leviticus say.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

My lady and I love our oysters. With a little rock salt and lemon. I'm not sure I understand recipes which combine cooked oysters with cream or cheese etc - they should be alive when eaten.

― moley, Friday, 23 September 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

The hardest I have ever thrown up in my life was the result of a bad oyster. Did that stop me from eating them? Hell no. I was eating oysters and drinking champagne at my friend's wedding this year and giggling at myself.

― the goodness ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

oyster season is open (northern california), i'm in tomales bay about to start shucking.

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 23 August 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

i tried really hard but i think i just don't like oysters :-\

― tehresa, Sunday, 23 August 2009 17:49 (sixteen years ago)

Never had raw oysters before, only fried oyster nachos...in Dallas.

― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 23 August 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

that sounds like an abomination.

― tehresa, Sunday, 23 August 2009 18:10 (sixteen years ago)

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