Differant Food

john in la · Mar 15, 2015

Some of you talk about how you have tried crawfish but do not like the taste.

So now the question has to be how many of you would ever consider eating oysters.

And if you would try them do they have to be fried or will you eat they raw right off the shell like they are served in restaurants.

I will eat them several ways. Would rather have them fried on a sandwich; but will eat the raw if fresh and the source is know due to problems with eating raw seafood.
It's also traditional to eat a oyster dressing at Thanksgiving with our turkey.

Only 3 more weeks and I can get off the seafood kick and go back to eating red meat.

JF in MI · Mar 15, 2015

I've always found it difficult to eat something that looks like it came off the floor of a taxicab.

JD2ACWD · Mar 15, 2015

I have oyster stew every couple of weeks

Billy Shafer · Mar 15, 2015

I agree

JRSutton · Mar 15, 2015

I lost all interest in seafood by fishing with my dad.

He used to eat our bait, and it'd just turn my stomach every time.

clams, oysters, chunks of squid.

We'd usually surfcasting, but going on a boat in the open ocean was even worse. Seasick - watching somebody pop open one of those things and just slurp it down... ooof.

Makes me queasy just thinking about it.

John M · Mar 15, 2015

Raw, fried, oyster stew, broiled, a couple of other ways.

sd pete · Mar 15, 2015

I like crawfish and oysters. I only had them fried and stewed. Don't know if I could get raw oysters down if I was sober.

Texasmark1 · Mar 15, 2015

Oysters here are hard to get directly from the fisherman/marketeer as quantity purchase is usually the norm and that's too many and don't want to keep them frozen. Local grocery store stocks them on holidays. High though, run about a buck apiece in a container of about 8. I fry them and like Oyster Stew. Don't eat raw for reasons posted.

I think Louisiana Brown Shrimp are my favorite sea food, deep fried primarily in Louisiana (brand) Shrimp Fry Batter which is also at the local super market. Top it off with a quality cocktail sauce and french fries.

I cook them outside in a 6 quart cast iron pot on a 70k btu burner where I can make a good mess. Canola oil is the product of choice. Get it up to 400F and toss em in till the batter turns golden brown. Yeah I know they are done when they float but I want to brown the corn meal and I can get it golden before they get chewy using 400F Canola.

Add a salad and water or tea and diced onion and yum yum. Might just get some out of the freezer as this is making me hungry.

Mark

Lazy WP · Mar 15, 2015

I prefer my Oysters battered and deep fat fried, but then again we are probably talking a different oyster!

RBnSC · Mar 15, 2015

Lots of folks don't eat oysters and I appreciate everyone of them. Leaves more for me. Over harvesting has made them more expensive around here. Had some Friday night.
Ron

Hoenes · Mar 15, 2015

I look forward to oyster dressing at the holidays. Other family members will slide them down on a saltine cracker with red sauce. Can't go that route!

Dave H (MI) · Mar 15, 2015

I will eat oysters any way you care to offer them, although I stopped eating raw oysters years ago. Just too much risk...contaminated from environment or from the hands of the preparer. And, like all raw seafood...parasites.

Once cooked I can't get enough of the things. Really isn't anything you can do to an oyster that would make me not want to eat it. My daughters are the same way, mom likes them but not as much. If I go to a restaurant and they have them on the menu, I order them for the table.

NoNewParts · Mar 15, 2015

back when they were cheap, I used to eat them right out
of the can/tin. cheap protein.
just eat em, don't look at them.

As far as any food you don't like....
don't eat, come back 6 hours later, it'll then be a fine food

JD Seller · Mar 15, 2015

I do not like OYSTERS at all!!! LOL IF they are put in dressing I will not eat it. They are too strong a taste for me.

I do not eat much sea food or BAIT!!! LOL Here in the mid west those type of things where expensive when I was a kid. So we never eat much meat other than Beef, pork, and chicken.

Liking to eat these type of foods is learned at an early age. I am glad I missed that.

GordoSD · Mar 15, 2015

Are you dipping them in batter and then rolling them in corn meal?
Hint : Try some "Fry Crisp batter mix. Best in the world and they have 4 lb sacks.

Rick Kr · Mar 15, 2015

Love them. Can eat them raw by the pile. But the last two times Ive done that Ive gotten a little sick.

From now on, they will have to be cooked only. Prefer raw, but cooked and fried are alright.

Rick

JerryS · Mar 15, 2015

John, I've been eating crawfish all my life, and cooked oysters whenever I got the opportunity. The first time I ate raw oysters I was standing knee-deep in the Gulf, near the lighthouse south of Venice. Guys I was with located an oyster bed and began prying them out with a screwdriver and breaking them open with a pair of pliers (locating oysters was an afterthought, so we hadn't come prepared). They shamed me into eating one, and then I ate a few more. No sauce, no crackers, just down the hatch. I've eaten them many times since; they're OK, but not something I crave. I've never eaten a land oyster.

GVSII · Mar 15, 2015

I knew a pilot from work,retired Marine fighter pilot,who could keep two shuckers going full tilt and eat every oyster they opened.Guy was born and raised on eastern Long Island,NY.
I love oyster stew and I love fried oysters but on the half shell-nope!

PJH · Mar 15, 2015

Nope!

jeffcat · Mar 15, 2015

Steamed clams "little necks" with butter is as close as I get. King crab, snow crab. and LOBSTER YAaaaaaaa! Forget the oysters.

CKain(MI) · Mar 15, 2015

Oh ya ! hmmm hmmm good. I lived on Cape Cod for three years, learned to like clams & oysters but my favorite was/is sword fish steak.. Though it is not so good here in Mi.

Pair-a-dice farm · Mar 15, 2015

I don't like oysters but I love crawfish, we call them crawdads here. The best I've had was at a restaurant in Lafayette. They had fried tails as an appetizer. YUM!!

Pajamafied John · Mar 15, 2015

Love em anyway. One of the best ways I ate at Acme Oyster House in Nola. Recreated it on my grill. Grill oysters until shell pops open. Shuck the oyster and dribble meltd butter, garlic powder and parm cheese on them. Delicious.

CGID · Mar 15, 2015

Mark Kurlansky wrote a great book on oysters and their influence on East-coast history, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. Speculation is that into the 1800s, in New York harbor, there were enough oysters to completely filter the harbor's water in a few days. Approaching the New York coastline, people would marvel at the sweet fragrance coming from the land and clear water. Elliot's restaurant in Seattle has a menu of different types of fresh oysters that changes daily. Big ones, small ones, sweet or salty. It's a list about ten inches long. I'd make the trip just for the oysters.

D beatty · Mar 15, 2015

I like sea food and eat it more than red meat. I don't like raw oysters but I love them in a scalloped oyster casserole.

dr sportster · Mar 15, 2015

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Leroy · Mar 15, 2015

I would not touch let alone eat either one of those

Traditional Farmer · Mar 15, 2015

Can't beat Oysters steamed and served in melted butter,like crawfish too.

Pete in MD · Mar 15, 2015

Any way but raw. If raw's all there is I'll take pickled herring.

buickanddeere · Mar 15, 2015

(quoted from post at 08:18:23 03/15/15) Some of you talk about how you have tried crawfish but do not like the taste.

So now the question has to be how many of you would ever consider eating oysters.

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And if you would try them do they have to be fried or will you eat they raw right off the shell like they are served in restaurants.

I will eat them several ways. Would rather have them fried on a sandwich; but will eat the raw if fresh and the source is know due to problems with eating raw seafood.
It's also traditional to eat a oyster dressing at Thanksgiving with our turkey.

Only 3 more weeks and I can get off the seafood kick and go back to eating red meat.

The entire extended family on Mrs B&D's side went together on a 10day vacation and wedding down east to the maritimes in New Brunswick. Entire clan stuck together at the same restaurants and hotels.
We were at seafood restaurants with fresh in season harvest of the sea. Many had the car parking lot in the front and the dock with the boat and fishing gear at the back.
I would order all manner of seafood , you name it. They would look at me and recoil in horror as it I was chewing on a live rat.
Without fail Mrs B&D's entire family would order a cheeseburger and fries, roast beef or chicken fingers. Go figure.

T in NE · Mar 15, 2015

Clam chowder is ok. Love shrimp. Never tried oysters that I can remember. Escargot wasn't bad til you realized it was the exact same texture as the mushroom cap it was cooked in. Not bad enough to preclude trying them again.

Karl in MD · Mar 16, 2015

I grew up next to (and in) the Chesapeake Bay, still live about a mile from the Pocomoke River (the deepest small river in the world). Oysters (arshters) were a staple in our diet, along with fish and crabs we caught, and vegetables we raised on the farm. I can't think of anything better than a raw oyster on the half-shell with a little dot of Ketchup on it. Of course i also love clams, crawfish, steamed hardcrabs, fried soft crabs, shrimp and fish. Never cared much for lobster. Would rather have king crab legs if i'm spending the money.

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