Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 7:48 PM -0500 12/11/06, Tina Manley wrote:
>At 06:25 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote:
>>I'll eat oysters whatever way, but preferably raw; none of that red
>>or other colour sauce, just a bit of lemon juice and preferably
>>large (west >coast) beach oysters of a size that 3 are a full meal.
>>About 150gm each shucked.
>
>You haven't seen big oysters until you've seen Apalachicola oysters.
>Those are the biggest, juiciest, best oysters I've ever had - as big
>as the palm of your hand. Believe it or not, I've eaten raw oysters
>at every one of the top ten oyster bars in the USA.
>http://www.apalachicolariverinn.com/top10.html
I'd like to try them sometime.
The biggest I've had were from an oyster farm in the Broken Island
group on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Nobody had been tending
it for a while and I had a chance to gather some. The shells were
around 10-12 inches long, and the oysters weighed were about a half
kilo each. This is wonderfully clear water at the edge of a National
Park, and they tasted great.
>My favorite is not on this list. Tom's Oyster Bar in Buras, LA, is
>probably not there anymore. I last ate there before Katrina.
>Oysters were shucked straight from the dock onto a school cafeteria
>tray. You didn't need sauce or anything else. And they were so
>cheap!
>
>The tiny little oysters at Wellfleet in MA are also wonderful. I
>ate 6 dozen at the annual oyster street festival there and got a
>free hat.
>
>The oysters on the West coast that I've had have been mainly very
>expensive, but maybe I haven't eaten at the right places. I
>couldn't afford to eat my usual 6-9 dozen at any of the restaurants
>there. Oysters had to be an appetizer instead of a main course!
>
>Tina
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