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mmmm oysters

>>14748665
I like fried oysters, and steamed clams, clam linguine but not a fan of eating oysters raw. Knowing that they are alive kinda freaks me out. It’s a psychological thing.

>>14748665
Enjoy dying from poison.

>>14748812
If it makes you feel any better, apparently they die almost immediately after you separate their shell since their heart is located right next to the bottom adductor muscle, meaning if you tear their shell in half, they either die or begin dying.

>>14748665
I think eating them raw is a waste because they have so much more flavor cooked.

>>14748853
Most of their flavor comes from the brine.

>>14748853
I refer their raw cold flavor with lemon and salt. I've had them cooked and it isn't the same.

>>14748665
Fresh raw oysters are fucking goat. Mussels are alright too.

i just cooked mussels for the first time last night and i didnt fuck them up! :D

>>14748665
hey little boy, whatchu got there?

>>14748885

>>14748665
it looks likee a feus

>>14748665
Raw oysters are okay, but steamed oysters are heaven.

>>14749209
>6 fingers on that right hand

>>14749264
Grilled are even better.

>>14748665
Lightly steamed

>>14748665
raw oysters with tapation and fresh lime squeezed cant be beat when it comes to accompanying a 12 pack of beer.

I enjoy raw oysters, but I'm careful where I eat them. Had a bad experience when I was a stomach-let at 13. Never had a bad one since. Baked, breaded clams are beautiful with a silky lemony sauce. Mussels in a garlic and white wine sauce is one of my damn favorites. Or cioppino. I had cioppino for the first time a few years back, served with this buttered and toasted sourdough and I nearly cried. (Okay, I cried.)

>>14748665
Mussels are cheap as fuck here so I cook em by the bag full
Want to try clams but haven't tried yet
Hate oysters raw may try them cooked but money's better spent on other shit

>>14748665
I love biting right into the shit sacks and munching that slightly fermented algae pulp
mm
yeah
that's what I paid for

>>14748665
First time I had raw oysters they were nasty, chewy, and mucousy. Second time from a different place thy were really good. Not sure what the differnce was, both places were fresh from the atlantic

>>14750759
One wasn't fresh. Or you got them at the wrong time of year.

>>14750759
>the atlantic
there's your problem.

the Vibrio infections freak me out too much to ever eat oysters anymore. Especially raw ones.

>>14750771
First time was in the winter, secomd time was a week ago

>>14750775
Yeah 1/3 die, the rest are fucked up for life. I know its super rare but 5 people just got it in my county so Im not gonna tempt fate

>>14750775
>>14750783
I'm confused.
Do none of you have the guys shuck it right in front of you?

>>14750772
ayy

>>14750792
do you not realize that a guy shucking it right in front of you has nothing to do with vibrio bacteria being present?

and that a guy shucking multiple oysters with the same tool actually increases the odds of cross contamination and ensuing infection to an almost 100% certainty?

How much is a bushel or oysters going for now?

Right with you on fresh oysters and fried clams, also a big fan of squid, but I dislike the steak style of squid as well as the "babies", I want the small tentacles fried and breaded with a strongly spicy aioli.

In Norcal somewhere near Petaluma there's this place you can get extremely fresh oysters, a fat cat who begs for oysters lives there, his name is oyster and he moves between Heftychonk and Megachonker depending on the time of year.

>>14751250
reddit hands made that image

>>14751281
to be certain, but it has it's uses

>>14750036
those looks mangled to shit

>>14751281

Chonker hands made this post.

>>14748853

A Japanese friend of mine posted a video of his birthday barbecue, that included abalone on the grill. They were just fucking writhing, being cooked alive.
Kinda fucked up.

>>14751480
they don't have a central nervous system

you could shoot an actual livestock animal with one, through it on the grill, and it would writhe just the same. it's just epithelial tissue contracting due to the heat even though they can't even detect heat because they don't even have the evolved nerves that would allow that.

>>14748665
I've had raw oysters a couple times, they were just ok.
I prefer mussels in white wine, can't get enough of those little shits.

>>14751250
point reyes? drakes bay oyster farm? hog island? im tryna see this CAT

>>14748800
two pair checked
where's this from anon? googling filename doesn't give anything

>>14748665
they're fine, but I love cephalopods and won't ever eat them. escargot tasted like clam to me. I'm from boston so I've eaten a lot of clam chowder in my life. they're also really healthy, and great for vegans/vegetarians as they are about as sentient as plants (at least mussels and oysters are, to the knowledge provided by the best of current scientific data) and fill in nutritional gaps that a plant-based diet tends to provide.

>>14748812
>alive
Wait, wut? I didn’t know this

>>14751679
pink floyd live at pompeii directors cut

>>14752734
thanks anon, might go and check it out

>>14748665
amazing. i always try to go to an oyster bar on the first or second date. bitches who refuse to eat oysters and raw seafood aren't getting a followup text the next day. couldn't imagine dating a tastoid roastie.

>>14751708
>about as sentient as plants
That wont make vegans eat it. Eggs, milk, cheese, honey etc were never even conscious but they refuse to eat them

>>14751250
>>14751663
Pretty sure he means hog island. Not him but I used to frequent the area, take 1 south from tomales near Dillon's beach and a few miles down you'll see the oyster stand on the right with lots of picnic tables. If you try taking 1 north from golden gate it takes forever but it's a good drive if theres no traffic or you're on a motorcycle. Best oysters in CA youd have to go to Mexico or Oregon for better.

>>14748665
i want to be a mollusk :\

>>14753005
sweeeeet i've been to all these joints before and just wanted to narrow it down.
my dad helped me and my sis not be tastelets by making us eat fresh raw oysters at proverbial gunpoint. thanks pop

>>14748853
I bet you hate sushi too

>>14750008
A agree with this anon, but raw and steamed are perfectly fine.