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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

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Oysters on the half-shell: tasty delicacy or booger-like nastiness?

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  1. Nasty? Perish the thought! They are a rare and delicate... nay, precious... gift from the bosom of the ocean to us mere mortals on the shore.

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  2. Dietary issues aside, I don't think that I'd eat something whose seeming raison d'etre is filtering sea water for nutrients.

    'Twas a brave man who ate the first raw oyster

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  3. I do love them raw but I especially love them done Rockefeller style.

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  4. Tasty enough, though I could take or leave 'em.

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  5. The latter. I've watched others eat them with obvious delight; I can't even imagine a scenario in which I could try one.

    --- Dan

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  6. I did far, far too many dissections of clams and mussels as a grad student teaching assistant teaching Intro Bio to ever be able to eat anything like that.

    I start thinking about all the gonads and livers and what-not in the unfortunate little critter and get totally grossed out.

    Deep fried clam "strips," however, I am totally down with.

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