Why do people eat oysters?

[amitten]

If I told you the following about a certain food:

1. It is slimy and gray.
2. It tastes briny.
3. It can't really be chewed--so you have to swallow it whole
4. It is filled with it's own poo, and you must eat the poo as well
5. It's filled with God-knows-what kind of other toxins

Would you be just jumping up and down wanting some??? No??? Same here!

:puke: Good Christ, I'd rather starve.

[jus_the_facts]

1. you have to dip 'em in cocktail sauce first then put 'em on a cracker.....

....or batter 'em and deep fry!! YUMMY!!! :9

[amitten]

3. Hell...bark would taste good if you did all THAT to it!

Good food shouldn't need to be fried and smothered in something that covers it's natural nastiness!!! :puke:

[jus_the_facts]

5. Stuffed ones are quite tasty too...top the half shell with crab..shrimp...

...scallions and breadcrumbs...then bake...or made into a po'boy sandwich...put into a gumbo...dammit there's all sorts o'ways to cook oysters that is fine eatin'!! :D

[amitten]

8. May the good Lord have mercy on your soul.

Eating oysters, I don't care if they're fried, stuffed, or wearing red lipstick, is the same to me as eating cold rotten fish stuffed with poo!
:puke:

I hate when a guy orders them on a date. Little does he know I've been turned right off! ;(

[jus_the_facts]

10. LOL....they're supposed to be an aphrodisiac or so they say....

.....a date orderin' 'em could be a sort of message!! :D You might have missed out on some gooood lovin'!! :o

[amitten]

23. Hmmm...maybe. But I probably just missed out on some nasty

fish-breath!

[baldguy]

2. I like 'em

Specialy with hot sauce. Though, one of the BRAVEST people in human hisory was the first to eat one.



edit: just looking at this pic makes my mouth water

[amitten]

4. That pic reminds me of 9th grade biology class.

The dissection part! :puke: (Fetal pig innards, anyone...?)

[baldguy]

9. I guess you wouldn't like these either?

[amitten]

19. No. I don't like eating things that still contain their own waste.

I'm CRAZY like that! Nuts, I tell ya!

[CottonBear]

6. Oysters (fresh from the ocean) are the food of the gods.

Mr CB & I were both raised (he's a NOLA native & my mom's family lived down there for many years on the Gulf Coast) knowing hwo to fish, shrimp and crab and collect oysters and we learned how to catch our own seafood. (fish, shrimp, crayfish, 'erters, blue crabs & soft shell crabs)

We last ate oysters fresh from the South Carolina marshes and coastal wetlands last winter. We bought them at the pier (Gay Seafood Company of St. Helena Island, SC) , rinsed, shelled them and sauteed them. Mmm! We also went out and went crabbing for blue crabs and ate them! We caught shrimp in our cast net and fish by surf fishing! Before that, we had grilled oysters in MR CB's hometown of NOLA.

OYSTERS!

[Kali]

7. I like canned smoked ones - mmmm little 'bortions.

[liberaltrucker]

11. Deep fried, they're yummy

Also, they're Nature's Viagra:evilgrin:

[amitten]

24. I like to consider myself Nature's Viagra.

Oysters are NOT necessary! :D

[BikeWriter]

12. Mmm, I lurves me some oysters! Raw, fried, or boiled. It don't matter.

[cmkramer]

33. I used to love raw oysters

When I was in college, the "special" meal they made for us in the cafeteria right before we went for various holiday breaks was always stuffed ham and raw oysters. My roommate and I always enjoyed the oysters, although most people seemed to go for the ham more. Then, a good friend of ours was an oysterman and he used to get us a bucketful every once in a while too. They're definitely an acquired taste.

I think they're too dangerous to eat that way any more though.

[Wapsie B]

13. It's a guy thing for one.

It contains a lot of zinc that helps with sperm production. I'd love to have an oyster po boy right now.mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Oh hell yeah!

an oyster poboy! Man, that's eating!

[Wapsie B]

17. Food for the gods!!!

That and a icy mug of lager. mmmmmmmmmmmm


btw, I hope the Prophetess is doing ok. :thumbsup:

[EstimatedProphet]

21. Not too bad tonight, thanks!

[amitten]

20. Only girly men need oysters to boost their wuss sperm count.

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[BikeWriter]

25. Bull shit. That means you can't keep them down, right?

[amitten]

27. I do not even try, my man.

It's pure natural instinct not to throw an oyster down my gullet!

[Wapsie B]

26. And what exactly are you? A girly man or manly girl?

Feisty are we? }(

[amitten]

28. I'm a girly girl.

I like manly men. Men who don't require oysters, just good company... :P

[Wapsie B]

30. I'm a manly man. But I like oysters AND good company....

:)

[robbedvoter]

14. Ask the Walrus and the Carpenter. They started it!

[NashVegas]

16. They Feel Good In Your Mouth

That's why they're considered sensual.

[amitten]

22. I can find far more sensual things to place in my mouth, thanks.

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Oysters aren't even in the top ten!

[applegrove]

18. It is a taste. I think we ate shellfish for a million years. So I think we

are hard-wired to like the whole experience!

[LeftyMom]

29. Because they're percived as an aphrodesiac

Eating something else that's slick and tastes like the ocean is much more likely to get you laid, though. :shrug: People are dumb.

[Beausoir]

31. Because they taste perfectly like the sea. Bright and fresh and briny and

salty and perfectly like the sea.

When you eat a perfectly fresh oyster it's like taking a trip to the ocean.

They burst in your mouth with the flavor of somewhere where the wind is blowing off the ocean and the sun is shining.

[amitten]

32. But I don't like the way the ocean smells, or tastes.

I like it a couple of miles downwind, but not up close and personal.

Fish smells don't do it for me!

[Deja Q]

34. Because they think that taking "Steel Libido" pills is for wimps.

[genie_weenie]

35. Oysters are high in Zinc!

[BikeWriter]

36. ... So if you zinc you need it, eat oysters!