Comments on: Happy Huitres

By: Leo Gorcey

Leo Gorcey — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:21:50 +0000

Raw oysters are my very favorite food in the whole world (pig’s feet run a close second). Oysters are perfect when simply drizzled with lemon, allowing the full briney-ness to engulf your taaste buds. The most I’ve ever had in one sitting is 41 (at Grand Central’s Oyster Bar).

All I can say is I feel sorry for anyone who doesn’t appreciate the oyster — one of life’s most sublime pleasures.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:38:30 +0000

I’ve only ever had fines de claires oysters once but they were the purest, sweetest and cleanest tasting oysters I have ever had. The Champagne of the bi-valve world

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:08:26 +0000

I’ll only eat ‘em if they’re fried. Cornmeal-dusted oysters in a salad are yummy.

By: jenni

jenni — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:29:25 +0000

Maybe oysters on a saltine is a southern thing?? Don’t know?
That is how they are always served in these parts with a basket of saltines.
If the oyster is rubbery-It’s been overcooked. Like Calamari when it is over cooked, just like eating fried rubber bands.
Aphrodisiac—–notta.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:40:08 +0000

I honestly didn’t know that Saltines could be involved with oysters. This changes everything!

No one’s mentioned the would-be aphrodisiac qualities of oysters. Anything?

By: jenni

jenni — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:19:12 +0000

I love oysters too. I used to not touch ‘em.

I usually prefer mine steamed with horseradish and hot sauce on a saltine. The best I ever had was at some dive bar at the mouth of the St. Marks river on the gulf side of Florida. Oyster Po’Boys in NOLA, yum. Fried oysters made by my grandmother – double yum. They banned oyster harvesting in Georgia today. I just heard all about it on NPR.

By: natalie

natalie — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:59:36 +0000

I eat oysters in two *very* un-chic ways: steamed on a saltine with ketchup or fried. there, i admit it, i’m uncivilized.

By: Renovation Therapy

Renovation Therapy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:02:53 +0000

I love oysters. The Fiance loves to order items that SOUND good but he may or may not like the ingredients of. I usually end up eating whatever it is because when it arrives – he doesn’t like the “stuff” in it. At the Oyster Bar in NYC he decided to order a shot of vodka that arrived with a bottom layer of cocktail sauce, a layer of vodka…and had a raw oyster floating in it. It was expensive. He wouldn’t even pick it up. I can’t/won’t waste money so I tossed it back. DELISH!!

Really…it was yum.

By: modernemama

modernemama — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:01:09 +0000

I love oysters – especially from Brittany but I’ll take the half dozen Malpeque oysters I had yesterday evening accompanied by an ice cold martini on a deck overlooking the harbor. Heaven.

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:57:40 +0000

I’ve tried oysters and can’t seem to figure out what all the fuss is about. If you ask me, they taste like rubber that’s been marinating in seawater and sand.

My dad loves them raw and cooked. Every Thanksgiving he makes scalloped oysters, which consits of saltine crackers, oysters, and large amounts of butter and cream.