Sleep??? With those oysters, you should be "up" all night! .)
(or is that an old wive's tale?) ;)
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Sleep??? With those oysters, you should be "up" all night! .)
(or is that an old wive's tale?) ;)
HA, not all night, Thump....'bout 20 minutes, and I'm toast. ;)
Careful Muddy. There is no "R" in May. Bad month to eat oysters. It will be at least September before I'm back in em'
It don't have anything to do with keeping them cold in storage. It has everything to do with the brackish water heating up they live in. I'll stick with the months with an "R" in them if you please.
My wife eats 'em year round. Don't be a pussy :)
Of course, we go to snooty places that give you the personal backstory to every oyster you meet, their environment, which Canadian island they vacation on and their lineage.
The shit is gross people!
I usually get quote the look after the wife orders her oysters when I say "Hey, can you throw a dozen in the deep fryer for me?"
There's a phenomena called cultural wisdom. Its the reason we don't eat poison mushrooms, or do other stuff like eating oysters in months that don't have R's.
In other words, some ancestor spent many hours on some prehistoric toilet learning that rule the hard way so you wouldn't have to. Challenge that wisdom with care, Grasshopper!
BKb
Sorry Lenster, I used my Secret Committee powers to change your quote just a tad to fit my personal situation. ;)Quote:
Lynn eats 'em year round. Don't be a pussy :)
Of course, we go to snooty places that give you the personal backstory to every oyster you meet, their environment, which Canadian island they vacation on and their lineage.
The shit is gross people!
I usually get quite the look after Lynn orders her oysters when I say "Hey, can you throw a dozen in the deep fryer for me?"
The key word in your post Mr. P-hole is "prehistoric". Do ya' really think the FDA would allow sales during the non-R months if there was a true threat these days? Now, I wouldn't suggest going to Miami in August and eating the oysters you collected on your trip to the beach, but these days, Oysters served year-round come from farms with no chance of red tide contamination. Plus, you have northern farms where the water is cooler if you still wanna be a wuss about it. I gots ta' go with Arty on this one.
Tell that to every seafood restaurant on both east and west coast that will sell oysters to literally millions of oysters to people in the next 4 months (months without R's).
If they made people sick in those months wouldn't every hotel resort be backed up with tourist diarreah flowing from the bathrooms?
Not to mention lawsuits. ;)
Not to say you WILL get sick every time you eat them in months without a R. It's just that the risk is MUCH higher. Some folks just have to learn the hard way.
Everyone just move along. There's nothng to see here. Just a guy named Darwin hard at his work.
BkB
Cap, yesterday was May 3rd, so it's barely past April(with an "R")....plus, it was a high-falooting, white table cloth place we ate at....I'm still alive, this morning, and don't have the screaming-sheeits, so I guess the oysters were okay. ;)
From hogs to sardines to oysters to white lightnin' all in one thread.
Only on Goodhunting.
BKB
"My wife eats 'em year round. Don't be a pussy "
This from a cat lover???
My cat is a badass :) He'd eat oysters in may, june, july AND august.
And still have five lives to spare.
BKB
BBP, that made me smile. You get top funny comment of the day!
I was gonna say the same thing right after he posted it, but I was afraid it'd make his head swell. ;)
(Got'ta say, I snickered at that one.)
Even a blind sow finds an acorn now and again!
BKB