>>21503876
Reminds me of a line from a song by notoriously terrible industrial metal/cyber goth band Cat Rapes Dog:
>I am filled with lust and love >bring me the lube and a rubber glove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQxPHkHZn38
>>21503799 (OP) >Good food and good eating are about risk. Every once in a while an oyster, for instance, will make you sick to your stomach. Does this mean you should stop eating oysters? No way. The more exotic the food, the more adventurous the serious eater, the higher the likelihood of later discomfort. I'm not going to deny myself the pleasures of morcilla sausage, or sashimi, or even ropa vieja at the local Cuban joint just because sometimes I feel bad a few hours after I've eaten them.
Bourdain sisters, are oysters truly worth it? Never had one in my life, my dad's allergic to shellfish so growing up we avoided it like the plague.
>>21504359
I think oyster farming is similar to "wild caught hatchery raised salmon" where they help oysters reproduc then toss them in a bay until they can be harvested.
In other words they aren't mutant oysters grown in a net like their farm fish cousins.
>>21504610 >'ber rule
In New England its rule of thumb for wild oysters and doesnt apply to farmed oysters where they monitor the water for bacteria. You can break the 'ber rule for oysters in recreational shellfish beds because the water is tested by the town locals. I'm sure rules are similar elsewhere but oysters are fucking everywhere.
>>21504359
Kinda.
What maters most for the flavor of oysters is where they're grown. Oyster Farmers pick the prime spots with good tidal flow but those spots don't always have an abundance of oysters naturally. They're filter feeders so their taste is massively influenced on what they eat.
If you go harvest them yourself you're limited to public beaches that have easy access or you're going to be hiking a long way with cook pots. If you own or know someone with good beach property you may or may not have access to oysters on par with farmed versions.
>>21506682
$1.50/lb for live ones during the summer months can't be argued with either. We eat so many damn mussels, that we might as well be otters. Well, I /am/ tall, thin and hairy and I was on the swim team in school so maybe I am an otter after all.
We might pick some more up tomorrow, actually, even though we just ate some the other week (in yellow pepper sauce).
>>21506812
Yeah. About 100 people die just in US from oysters every year while legally prepared restaurant fugu has like one death every 50 years if even that.
