Fresh Oysters Offered at sea

[Cats2010]

On 11/25/2020 at 12:19 PM, exlondoner said:

 

I believe they die as soon as the membrane attaching them to the shall is severed, so not quite alive. 😀

Yes, not quite. What I just found out is that they are only "killed" by the stomach acid, so I would prefer not to eat raw ones, but everybody should enjoy them the way he prefers.

[ew101]

There was a March 13, 1986 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Herbert L. DuPont begging people to not eat raw shellfish.  The Norwalk Virus was a culprit then.  Noro has also been mentioned from raw oysters.  These are the same people asking folks to wear masks these days.   I do remember a Holland America voyage on the Veendam where a pickup-truck load of fresh Prince Edward Island shellfish were brought aboard.  I think they were served cooked but I can't remember.  

 

WARNINGS ISSUED ON EATING SHELLFISH THAT IS UNCOOKED - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM198603133141109

 

[exlondoner]

Really the same people? After 34 years?

[ew101]

1 hour ago, exlondoner said:

Really the same people? After 34 years?

Yep. 

 Dying in a Leadership Vacuum | NEJM

[Cats2010]

On 11/25/2020 at 3:00 AM, Underwatr said:

You are allowed to chew.

 

Yes, but I don't want to chew something that is still alive.

[canoncruiser]

Being unable to dine at a restaurant in NYC for the time being, I have time on my hands to explore and lo and behold, I found an RMS Queen Elizabeth dinner menu from 1946 in which ‘Oysters on the Half Shell’ are on offer. Ah long ago and far away!😋

[Solent Richard]

On 12/15/2020 at 6:30 AM, canoncruiser said:

Being unable to dine at a restaurant in NYC for the time being, I have time on my hands to explore and lo and behold, I found an RMS Queen Elizabeth dinner menu from 1946 in which ‘Oysters on the Half Shell’ are on offer. Ah long ago and far away!😋

Hi CC.

I feel for you at the moment.  One of my favourite haunts when on a Queen Mary 2 day visit to New York is lunch in the Oyster Bar restaurant under Grand Central. A veritable  mecca for seafood lovers...

 

 

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[Mudhen]

aw.....! Be still, my heart !!

[koonard]

On 11/20/2020 at 6:05 AM, Cats2010 said:

 

Honestly, I never understood what is so delicious about oysters ... sea salt? Can someone explain what I am missing? You swallow something that is still alive.

I used to love them .. UNTIL ... I are some bad ones in Clifden  Co Galway in Ireland ... I had food poisoning for 10 days and I was in a rented flat with only 2 towels .. it was awful and Ive never experience sickness like it ...

[Cats2010]

11 hours ago, koonard said:

I used to love them .. UNTIL ... I are some bad ones in Clifden  Co Galway in Ireland ... I had food poisoning for 10 days and I was in a rented flat with only 2 towels .. it was awful and Ive never experience sickness like it ...

 

OMG, but at least YOU are still alive!

[CeaJay]

On 12/15/2020 at 6:30 AM, canoncruiser said:

Being unable to dine at a restaurant in NYC for the time being, I have time on my hands to explore and lo and behold, I found an RMS Queen Elizabeth dinner menu from 1946 in which ‘Oysters on the Half Shell’ are on offer. Ah long ago and far away!😋