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Miss Kitty

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Jun 10, 2005
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destindreamin said:

I totally agree dd...I only acquired a taste for the fruits of an oyster's labor myself! I do think people that eat oysters are very special...they usually don't just like oysters...they LOVE oysters!!! They are happy for people like us...more oysters for them!!!
 

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fishlips
May 30, 2005
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QUOTE "said they have to keep it at the bar while they are serving the particular bag from whence they came

That's a clue for those who still roll those dice! Gotta keep it around so CDC can know where they came from when somebody DIES! Jeez! Just dont touch em until next spring (cold calm water should bye bye the bad bugs and the contaminates in their food - a.k.a. 'the poisons' and 'the poo' - will percolate out of the water column) or request Atlantics and watch out for cheapo 'Gulf Oyster' deals - probably from poaching in the closed areas, or reported as coming from 'Galveston' like the Coneheads were from 'France'. Texas oysters are to the west of the Mississippi River Outflow. Galveston sand isnt brown from just oil ya know! Read the freakin posted sign and use your pie hole for something besides being a contaminated food tester. Eat a cigrateet or something. Wait, thats supposed to be cigarette not cigrateet. Oh, how Freudian! My former collegues who measure the contamination of the oyster beds are not psychic readers of tiny oyster brains, or csi-types with million dollars gas chromatographs, but just people who grind up oysters and feed them to fish to see if the fish die. Its an everyday job and that's the test you're risking your life on.
 

Miss Kitty

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Mad Oyster Disease!!!!! Be careful out there!
 

kathydwells

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aquaticbiology said:
QUOTE "said they have to keep it at the bar while they are serving the particular bag from whence they came

That's a clue for those who still roll those dice! Gotta keep it around so CDC can know where they came from when somebody DIES! Jeez! Just dont touch em until next spring (cold calm water should bye bye the bad bugs and the contaminates in their food - a.k.a. 'the poisons' and 'the poo' - will percolate out of the water column) or request Atlantics and watch out for cheapo 'Gulf Oyster' deals - probably from poaching in the closed areas, or reported as coming from 'Galveston' like the Coneheads were from 'France'. Texas oysters are to the west of the Mississippi River Outflow. Galveston sand isnt brown from just oil ya know! Read the freakin posted sign and use your pie hole for something besides being a contaminated food tester. Eat a cigrateet or something. Wait, thats supposed to be cigarette not cigrateet. Oh, how Freudian! My former collegues who measure the contamination of the oyster beds are not psychic readers of tiny oyster brains, or csi-types with million dollars gas chromatographs, but just people who grind up oysters and feed them to fish to see if the fish die. Its an everyday job and that's the test you're risking your life on.

You are such a breath of fresh air!!!!!
 

DD

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Sueshore said:
I totally agree dd...I only acquired a taste for the fruits of an oyster's labor myself! I do think people that eat oysters are very special...they usually don't just like oysters...they LOVE oysters!!! They are happy for people like us...more oysters for them!!!

LOL, Sue. I'm with you! They can all have my share.... :cool:
 

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fishlips
May 30, 2005
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Joe's Crab Shack just got in a great big bag yesterday. Atlantics, of course, by UPS Jet to Meridian and thus to us - same with fresh pineapple (YUM!) from Indonesia. I'd say they were both about half gone last night when we left. I had two dozen oysters and there is nothing like a big chunk of fresh juicy pineapple instead of lemon. Atlantic oysters taste just slightly different - not so much more salty but more minerally - if it were wine I suppose it would be 'brighter' (but not acidy, just more minerally taste) as opposed to 'earthier' (just minerally) , not metallic but more vitaminy - anyway - more, please! With the extra horseradish! Git t' shukkin!
 
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dirtdaddy

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Aug 29, 2005
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Rita said:
:welcome: Dirtdaddy - interesting name :dunno: care to explain? Just got me curious.

when I was a boy my daddy would carry me to SoWal beaches, he coundn't
drag me away for the sand, sanddaddy just didn't sound as good as dirtdaddy.
hope I answered your ? :D
 
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lurker1

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Jun 26, 2005
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Those tags on sacks of oysters say to keep them for 90-days! Yikes.

Yet, I still eat them. Currently I'm on hold due to the lack of Gulf Oysters.
 

aquaticbiology

fishlips
May 30, 2005
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get your fix!: www.capecodoyster.com - 2 dozen for 30 bucks delivered to your door the next day via ups - BEST OYSTERS YOU HAVE EVER HAD BAR NONE ANYWHERE - or a party pack for a safe celebration! Publix can suppoosedly order them for you as well anywhere there's a Publix.

you're right!: By law, a live-oyster shipment must include identification of the oysters' origin and collection date; it is illegal to discard this tag sooner than 90 days after delivery.

more data than you'd ever want to know:
Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica): Fished and farmed from Atlantic Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and represents about 80 percent of U.S. oyster production. Most are collected from the wild, but overfishing, habitat degradation, and disease have driven wild catch levels in some areas to record lows. Farmed Eastern oysters, grown using a rudimentary form of aquaculture where farmers transport oysters from nursery areas to grow-out areas, are considered a good environmental choice.

the humble atlantic oyster
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/zone/underwater_sous-marin/oyster/oyster-huitre_e.htm
excerpt:
Other organs become visible when the covering half of the mantle is removed. At the hinge end are the labial palps or lips surrounding the mouth; below are four porous, finely ridged, crescent-shaped gills, commonly called the beard. The gills function both as a respiratory and a food-collecting organ. Covering them are tiny, lashing hairs which create an incoming current of water from which food particles are filtered and oxygen absorbed.

Oysters breathe much like fish, using both gills and mantle. The mantle is lined with many small, thin-walled blood vessels which extract oxygen from the water and expel carbon dioxide. A small, three-chambered heart, lying under the adductor muscle, pumps colorless blood, with its supply of oxygen, to all parts of the body. At the same time a pair of kidneys located on the underside of the muscle purify the blood of any waste products it has collected.

Incoming food is sorted by the lips and accepted morsels pass down a narrow throat into a pouch-shaped stomach surrounded by a digestive gland. Waste passes through a long, coiled intestine to be emptied by the rectum into an exhalant chamber.

There is no way of telling male oysters from females by examining their shells. While oysters have separate sexes, they may change sex one or more times during their life span. The gonads-organs responsible for producing both eggs and sperm-surround the digestive organs and are made up of sex cells, branching tubules and connective tissue.

but they're still good!

and good for you:
http://www.starchefs.com/features/oysters/html/index.shtml
?Raw can be risky,? says Slade Rushing, one-half of the husband and wife duo that operates Jack?s Luxury Oyster Bar in New York City. ?We have to worry about the state of the environment and pollution. These things are an issue."
 
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