Quote Originally Posted by Arty View Post
That was a good rule for your great grandfather. But now a days we have refrigeration to keep oysters fresh and alive while shipping/trucking. They harvest them here year around.
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!

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