OYSTERS!!!!

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It's an R month!
We've been eating the most incredible farmed oysters. Meaty and juicy and salty and sweet. Oh my GOD!
To not eat oysters at this time of year is madness. Don't even get me started on bay scallops. Another thread.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

oysters are a good food to eat when you want to pretend to be an octopus cause they liquify the meat of shellfish before sucking it out with their tongue-drill organs called radulas

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

We have a lot of oyster drills here. A lovely little snail whose vacated shell is washed up onto the beach. I will scan some and post.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the only oysters here are from the rocky mountains

― grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

bivalves=gross

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Behold the scourge of the oyster beds:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/oysterdrills.jpg

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oysters, cocktail sauce and lemon. Mmmm. Slurp.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

are there any other foods you can shuck and if so where can one order lots of them

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

corn?

― j.m. goatse (get bent), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean like besides corn though cause that's not an eating action and i'm looking for foods you can shuck as an eating action

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

jello shots?

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Shucking is an opening action, slurping is the eating action.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm another who approves of the oyster. delish! tabasco sauce and lemon, then gulp it all down and bask...

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i had some good oysters in october and november.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.peishellfish.com/sf/images/chopper_jps_1stplace.jpg

William "Chopper" Young
World Champion Oyster Shucker

http://www.peishellfish.com/sf/compchamp/jpshucking.cfm

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

We got three yards of clamshells for the parking area in front of our house. They're still a little new, so when it rains it stinks like the dock behind the fishmarket. The worst smell I ever loved. I just throw the oyster shells there too.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to eat loads of oysters in Bordeaux on Christmas Eve and then the next day, too. It's a family tradition!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

tracer, ~~je te hais~~, j'en suis jaloux.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Me too! We eat massive amounts on Christmas, but not in Bordeaux, alas!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my least favorite restaurant responsibilities was being the oyster shucker. Office Worker Carpal Tunnel Syndrome got NOTHING on Oyster Shucker Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

That being said, I had never been a fan of baked oysters until I worked there, we baked them with a lump of brie and a tiny nuglet of bacon on each, on the half shell.

I still prefer them raw though.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

it's more abt the high you get from absorbing the life force engery of another sentient being than the flavor.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, now I wanna go here this week.

― g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd be engery too if someone pried open my shell and ate me.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Grand Central is an architectural marvel.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Hog Islands or Kumamotos with shallot vinegar!!

The restaurant, Absinthe, has a great shooter:

Bloody Mary-esque mix without the tabasco but with horseradish in a tall shot glass with an oyster at the bottom. Mix it yourself with accompanying shot of vodka. Mmmmmmm.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Lordy.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Add tabasco for a "Sexy Mexican"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never made peace with oysters, their gloopiness icks me out. Someday when I'm a grown-up, maybe.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Come visit. We will force-feed you oysters under you succumb to their delights.
Sweetwater Farm oysters from Edgartown, or these:

http://www.wampanoagtribe.net/Pages/Wampanoag_NatResource/004FA7CA-000F8513.0/homepage.jpg

Horseradish-heavy cocktail sauce and a squeeze of lemon, and carefull not to tip it—you want as much oyster juice as the shell can hold!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

until you succumb.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.metropoleparis.com/1997/70331213/pascin1.jpg

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i love them. LOVE THEM.

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

lauren let's go to marlow and sons sometime, okay? actually are you around before new year's? i wanted to take ian out for his birthday.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, let's do it! leaving next fri but before that... ?

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oysters is a Christmas tradition for me and the folks too... we have them with Champagne because we're fancy like that. I love them! We can get Canadian east-coast Oysters pretty easily. PEI Malpeques, OMG... Caraquets also soooo good.

I prefer a tiny bit of lemon with pepper, sometimes the tabasco/vodka splash, but when I'm being a purist I go for the grated horseradish...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i've only had them two or three times, but they were most excellent

― grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd actually like to do it before new year's, if possible. i get back from new mexico on the 29th. you around that night or the 30th?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm on a mission to eat more foods (I even tried spaghetti squash last week but do not want) so maybe I'll get to oysters in 2007.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

30th sounds good!

xpost

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

let's do saturday the 30th! marlow and sons is great.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

At the same restaurant I was the primary oyster shucker, we made this thing for this guy called Robert (the ticket came back with just "Robert" written on it) on an almost daily basis: 4 plain baked oysters on top of a pile of steamed spinach. WTF Robert.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

okay!

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

okay we're going on the 30th, around 8ish, maybe before. ian's in. i love him and want to buy him oysters then take advantage of his amourous state heightened by their aphrodesiac tendencies.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha! sounds rad.

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i will let you get to fifth base and no further!

― ian (orion), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

oi I made oysters en brochette just last night! They were good but it was tricky because I had the WORLD'S BIGGEST BACON SLICES (seriously, usually you would just cut them in half but these needed to be cut into THIRDS, lengthwise, they were so huge) so it was difficult to get things completely even.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 15 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh YUM!!!!
A friend of our made us bay scallops and pineapple wrapped with bacon last night. Mmmmm.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

What about Oysters Kilpatrick? does it count? (also good introduction for those who don't like oysters, as long as you like bacon and worchester)

We got three yards of clamshells for the parking area in front of our house.

WFT? you paved your yard with shells?

― sgh (sgh), Saturday, 16 December 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Paved the parking area—instead of gravel. Very pleasant. White, and they make a nice crunching sound when you drive or walk on them. Sand in the house is drastically reduced.

Oysters! Just had some—first time we've dared since a two-hour ER visit when Donald punctured his hand opening oysters on Christmas. Only one of our 16 guests had arrived—we left him to receive the rest. When we got back from the hospital the house was full of drunken revelers.
Not a big deal—one stitch and a tetanus shot. I'd order one of those chain-mail gloves, but they're expensive!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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