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Oysters!

post #1 of 68
2/17/08 at 2:26am
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I love them. I eat them every chance I get, in U.S., Asia, and always when I'm in Paris. I like them raw with a glass of wine. Any other oyster fans ?
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post #2 of 68
2/17/08 at 2:38am
Yes. I just had to shuck a bunch tonight. My first time shucking... Good with some nice "minerally" white wine like Muscadet or an Alsatian Riesling. Heck, good with anything.
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post #3 of 68
2/17/08 at 3:41am
I've eaten raw oyster once. It was alright, but the food health warning labels scared the dickens out of me and now the government has steered me away from it
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post #4 of 68
2/17/08 at 3:56am
I eat them every chance I get. A very delicate and intriguing flavor. Needs a bone-dry white.
Had some on Thursday, and let's just say they work as promised.
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post #5 of 68
2/17/08 at 4:48am
huge fan ... spent a week in Tasmania (known for their oysters) earlier this year and oysters was just about the only thing I ate all trip
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post #6 of 68
2/17/08 at 8:03am
I love them. When I was in college, one of my fraternity brothers and I used to drive up to the farmers market and fill one cooler with beer and one cooler with oysters then sit in front of the house eating and drinking all afternoon

K
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post #7 of 68
2/17/08 at 9:05am
I love oysters. When I was younger, I went on a week long Kayaking trip where we would eat oysters everyday. Huge and small, raw and campfire-cooked. Of course, we didn't know about Red-tide until Weds but we didn't get sick. Crab was good although the crabs we found were not very big (pot sized).
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post #8 of 68
2/17/08 at 10:31am
I'd always tried them hoping that I'd suddenly like them, but they always underimpressed me. I figured maybe I was just getting shitty ones until one time when I ate them right out of the sea on an oyster boat in the presence of several devoted oyster eaters who assured us that this was as good as oysters got. When even that still just tasted like an inoffensive but not particularly enticing bit of goo, I decided that I just don't like oysters.
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post #9 of 68
2/17/08 at 12:36pm
Eat a ton of them. A half-hour south of here is a really big oyster fishery in Apalachicola. So delicious!
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post #10 of 68
2/17/08 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by appolyon View Post
huge fan ... spent a week in Tasmania (known for their oysters) earlier this year and oysters was just about the only thing I ate all trip

Tasmanian Oysters? Never even heard of it..... but will try it next time I'm down under! I'm actually going to Melbourne later in the year:-)
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post #11 of 68
2/17/08 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by FLMountainMan View Post
Eat a ton of them. A half-hour south of here is a really big oyster fishery in Apalachicola. So delicious!

Do you eat them straight from the shell?
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post #12 of 68
2/17/08 at 1:08pm
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Do you eat them straight from the shell?

Yeah, usually raw. but seafood boils are great too. Can't wait for summer!
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post #13 of 68
2/17/08 at 7:13pm
Is there any excrement in them like with shrimp? If so, is it easy to get out?
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post #14 of 68
2/17/08 at 7:20pm
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Is there any excrement in them like with shrimp? If so, is it easy to get out?

You just slurp down the whole thing.

I usually put a bit of lemon juice and tabasco sauce on my oyster. I drool a little when I think about oysters.
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post #15 of 68
2/17/08 at 7:37pm
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Originally Posted by Maharlika View Post
Tasmanian Oysters? Never even heard of it..... but will try it next time I'm down under! I'm actually going to Melbourne later in the year:-)

They're well known in OZ probably because they are the freshest we can get down here ... give them a shot when your in Melbourne and let us know what you think!
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