Oysters this season...

[30A Skunkape]

That is a little different. I was in Purgatory in Shreveport for a few years and was really picky about eating raw oysters that far from the coast. If you put them on ice and they are consumed in a few days all will probably be well, but all it takes is one knucklehead letting them sit out too long at room temp or whatever, and bam-o!

 

[Beach Runner]

I'll have to admit that I have been afraid of raw oysters ever since the wife of one of my husband's colleagues died after eating raw oysters at a restaurant on the South Carolina coast. She was pregnant. The baby survived, she didn't, and her husband was left with their first child to raise without its mother.

 

[30A Skunkape]

OMG! No wonder they put those warnings right on the menu. I learned something today.[/QUOTE]

I suspect the notice is intended less as a public health measure and more of a CYA when the lawyers show-up after somebody eats raw shellfish, gets sick and sues.

 

[30A Skunkape]

I'll have to admit that I have been afraid of raw oysters ever since the wife of one of my husband's colleagues died after eating raw oysters at a restaurant on the South Carolina coast. She was pregnant. The baby survived, she didn't, and her husband was left with their first child to raise without its mother.

I betcha a dozen raw that was hepatitis E! It is really an odd bug...it is literally an obstetrical emergency. It 'picks on' pregnant women. Pregnant ladies should NEVER eat raw meat of any sort!

 

[Beach Runner]

I betcha a dozen raw that was hepatitis E! It is really an odd bug...it is literally an obstetrical emergency. It 'picks on' pregnant women. Pregnant ladies should NEVER eat raw meat of any sort!

 

[Smiling JOe]

That's it, no more sushi for Steeleing1. :nono1:

 

[Santiago]

I know this is reply is kinda late but I've been out of town. I had pretty much sworn off raw oysters after hearing too many stories about people getting sick. However, as luck would have it, a friend had 2 bags of very salty, cold, Apalachicola oysters 2 weeks ago and I just happened to be around. I thought I would eat just one or two. Wrong. I couldn't stop eating them. They were out of this world good. I gusss I've fallen off the wagon. Or is it on the wagon. Whatever. You only live once.

 

[CastlesOfSand]

I have always loved raw oysters and ate them by the dozen for years and years, but will never eat them again after reading an article in D Magazine (May 2003) about two local men who died four months apart from eating raw oysters at a reputable seafood place here in Dallas. (These were Gulf Coast oysters) I'm to paranoid now! Apparently, Vibrio vulnificus was the culprit. They described the symptoms and it was a horrible way to go. Just be careful. Sorry, I don't like to be negative.. but an oyster is the only animal that people consume alive. When you pop the top, you have a beating heart and other organisms live in those shells too! :shock: Be Safe!

 

[CastlesOfSand]

That's it, no more sushi for Steeleing1. :nono1:

But I do eat Sushi!

 

[Smiling JOe]

I have always loved raw oysters and ate them by the dozen for years and years, but will never eat them again after reading an article in D Magazine (May 2003) about two local men who died four months apart from eating raw oysters at a reputable seafood place here in Dallas. (These were Gulf Coast oysters) I'm to paranoid now! Apparently, Vibrio vulnificus was the culprit. They described the symptoms and it was a horrible way to go. Just be careful. Sorry, I don't like to be negative.. but an oyster is the only animal that people consume alive. When you pop the top, you have a beating heart and other organisms live in those shells too! :shock: Be Safe!

So share with us how to eat raw oysters in a safe manner. I wonder if it hurts the oyster when I bite it? I didn't realize that oysters have a heart -- I have never seen one bleed. The red stuff is cocktail sauce.;-)