Oysters

like swallowing cold snot.

[quote]they usually give you twice in a serving as much as you would want.

No such thing as too many oysters. Never have I been served twice as many as I could eat.

I like them but only three ways -

1) at parties, drinking champagne, and maybe smoking a cig afterward

2) soup

3) Oysters Rockefeller

For the raw ones they have to be super fresh and served with the oyster liquor, which is better than the animal in my opinion. The champagne better be good and ice cold.

Totally disgusting. Like swallowing something unidentifiable that washed up on a beach.

Like being at one with the sea. I like shallow, briney, small to medium sized east coast oysters. Never too many. And OP, what are you even talking about, you can always order by the piece or the half-dozen.

Always mignonette. Never cocktail sauce!

Coming to Little Island this summer

Fat, salty Louisiana oysters are the best .. just don't mind the hint of crude oil.

Oystures.

I used to avoid them but I love them now.

People who are against oysters are racist against native Americans, as oysters were a major part of the diet of East coast tribes.

Okay, if fried, any other way, a decided no.

Love them but I think it’s a family thing - if you grew up eating them, your parents loved them, you do as well. For me the best are Oyater Roasts South Carolina style - outdoors steamed in burlap and then stand around a barrel and shuck them with your friends and family. Usually accompanied with a hog roast and corn on the cob.

[quote]Usually accompanied with a hog roast and corn on the cob.

Indeed.

I have never been to a hog roast myself.

R12 I also like them scalloped in a casserole or cooked through in stew.

I prefer a bearded clam.

I've never understood how to eat raw oysters. Online guidance is terrible. Do you chew them up thoroughly, like any other food?

OP, after trying to get through your thread opener, I wonder if you should get checked for some kind of neurotoxicity from one of those Gulf oysters you ate last August.

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

I put smoked oysters 🦪 in cream cheese 🥯 on bagels.

I've only had them fried, like fried clams. Tasted good.

A word about cooking oysters: DON’T.

Note to self - have a lobster roll soon.

I chew them and savor them. Nowadays I only eat them in the coldest months and from Canada. The others seem too risky although I never got sick in the past

[quote] I've never understood how to eat raw oysters. Online guidance is terrible. Do you chew them up thoroughly, like any other food?

Yes, chew them up like any other food.

For raw, I like the larger ones. I can't tell the difference in taste between the different ones. They're expensive and you're usually paying per oyster, so why not get a larger oyster.

For cooked, I like to order "kaki fry" at Japanese restaurants. They usually use a smaller oyster, lightly breaded, then deep fried. Very good.

Angels-on Horseback are pretty dang tasty

I like them Rockefeller or Bienville style, but raw oysters are a no go.

For a site filled with men who love sucking cock, I’m surprised that so many posters don’t the like raw oysters.

And no, you don’t chew. You suck that fatty out of its shell and swallow.

You do know how to swallow.

R2 You're right, never an oyster order that I wanted to share. Husband and I get a dozen raw to start, and usually a second dozen after that. I prefer cocktail sauce, he goes for minionette. (spelling? sorry) Great with a dry gin martini. Fried oyster po'boys are also good, as are roasted with parmesan, butter, and hot sauce. Oysters Rockefellar were always a Christmas dinner appetizer for our family.

I like fried oyster poboys. As for raw oysres, they're fine, but I put them on a saltine and cover it with cocktail sauce.

*oysters. I'll oh dear myself.

You see! R24 & R25 say yes, chew them, and R29 says no. WTF?

LOVE raw oysters. Hog Island oysters are my preference. Then any upper Pacific coast or Maryland/DelMarVa oysters. New Zealand oysters are wonderful too.

If they're not from those 3 areas - I don't order them.

Perfect appetizer. Need at least 6, but prefer 9. And yes - mignonette and a bit of horseradish. I can't stand the cocktail sauce - totally masks the flavor.

But you have to be careful - I had a friend who got sick from some and ended up in the hospital.

Does it make sense to swallow food and not chew? No.

Being a New Englander, seafood is always readily available. Do people who live in the midwest ever have that pleasure without costing them an arm and a leg?

I love oysters. The smaller, brined ones are better than the larger, creamier ones here in Australia. Coffin Bay or Sydney Rock are fantastic.

Oysters Rockefeller must be an American thing as here if we have cooked oysters on the menu then it’s Oysters Kilpatrick (bacon and Worcestershire sauce).

I could never eat an oyster after watching ALICE IN WONDERLAND as a kid, but I don't feel like I've missed out on much.

[quote]The smaller, brined ones are better than the larger, creamier ones here in Australia.

Same here in New Zealand R37. We do have good oysters here but those brined ones are the best and easiest to get too

"Brined"?

Aren't ALL oysters found in salt water?

How exactly does one brine an oyster?

[quote]Aren't ALL oysters found in salt water?

Not all.

^^ O U card!

Snots in ashtrays.

r40 “briney”

It means a saltier, brackish oyster principally from the Northeast vs a creamier style found principally in the Pacific Northwest.

There are always active warnings for disease causing oysters, but people who eat ass shouldn't be too worried about hepatitis or norovirus from oysters I guess, it's useless.

Oysters are visually unappealing therefore I avoid them.

I can see how oysters would be visually unappealing, as r46 puts it. I usually get the icks over something like this (don't come at me with raw calamari, monkfish, geoduck, eel, passionfruit, among others), but with oysters, somehow the deliciousness trumps what they look like.

[quote]For me the best are Oy[s]ter Roasts South Carolina style - outdoors steamed in burlap and then stand around a barrel and shuck them with your friends and family.

For me, the nice thing --aside from the oysters-- was that the roasts were always at somebody's plantation. And they had ample shuckers on site to do the dirty work for you.

And oysters are delicious, the taste of the sea. Raw are best, roasted are second best.

Brackish water would not yield saltier oysters. Do you know what brackish means?

[quote]Oysters Rockefeller

My favorite from years ago were the Oysters Rockefeller from the Palm. They were covered in what must have been a saffron souffle. Just delicious.

[quote] For me, the nice thing --aside from the oysters-- was that the roasts were always at somebody's plantation. And they had ample shuckers on site to do the dirty work for you.

MARY. Scarlett O'Hara is posting.

Why be so pedantic about what brined oysters means? Geez.

When I eat oysters 🦪 - which is only once in a while

It’s Smoked Oysters I buy at Trader Joe’s.

Delicious, unless they kill you.

R46 Do you find proper punctuation unappealing as well?

Why would you brine oysters? That makes no sense.

A Japanese takeout place near me fries oysters in panko then wraps it in rice ball with a spicy sauce, I'm addicted to it.

R67- COCK SUCKING

I'm addicted to it.

I don't eat anything raw. Too many parasites out there to worry about. I don't even understand people who like sushi.

R59 I have to agree. The microbiology of these organisms is too sketchy. Friends who worked in high volume kitchens have told me stories of pulling tiny worms out of fish with a pair of needle nose pliers that came with their chef’s equipment in culinary school. They also rinsed some older fish with mild solutions of bleach before serving them. Ceviche is another dish I wouldn’t order or eat. More disturbing are the stories of people who contracted hepatitis and some forms of tapeworms from raw or undercooked seafood and meat. Not to be too morbid or sensationalist, I’m also freaked out by some of these new superbugs and forms of infection that lead to multiple amputations. It’s pretty horrific.

I need a separate choice of "Never tried them, and don't want to"

I like oyster shooters and oysters Rockefeller. Eat a plain oyster? Never.

Yikes…and then there is this: paralysis. In extreme cases, you could end up on a ventilator.

This story just appeared today.

In the poll, isn’t “they’re okay” and “I like them but don’t love them” the same answer?

I liked Eleanor Clark's The Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964)

Oysters and champagne: yes

"Twas a brave man what et the first oyster." -- atrib. to Jonathan Swift.

All sushi-sashimi raw fish in the USA is legally required by the FDA to be frozen to kill parasites, before thawed and prepared as raw fish. This is now true in Europe as well. At least 24 hours below minus 20 celsius.

Never ever eat raw fish ceviche at anyplace you don't trust with your life, or at least your precious vacation days.

Only eat oysters from cold waters harvested in winter months and served at restaurants with good reputations. I prefer to buy them myself from the reputable fish mongers and supermarkets in luxury department stores that have seafood departments. In Europe, oysters are branded and dated. You can know what you are getting.

Like eating a mermaid’s pussy!

Oysters Rockefeller and deep fried oysters, yes. I can't bring myself to eat a raw oyster, swallowed or chewed.

If you go for oysters, and I go for ersters

I'll order oysters and cancel the ersters