I am asking both.
Are supermarket oysters dead?
Are fresh oysters still alive?
How long do live oysters remain edible out of water?
Oysters?
- Thread starter Stanley Edwards
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I am asking both.
Are supermarket oysters dead?
Are fresh oysters still alive?
How long do live oysters remain edible out of water?
kittyP
Pluviophile
Right. Then I think I answered that.
They probably don't taste any different an hour later in a seafront seafood restaurant but the experience of catching them yourself may psychologically add to the taste iyswim?
kittyP
Pluviophile
I have no idea about the supermarket oysters where you are.
If it's a small island then they may be selling them alive.
Go and have a look
If packed in ice they last, I dunno, a day or so I guess but that is just a guess.
kittyP
Pluviophile
This is better 
Probably. I have never seen them though. The whole thing about oysters is the liveness really. Man, I could really eat one now.
kittyP
Pluviophile
They do look like a pretty risky food unless you dead them and steralise them, or really know your stuff, or trust a chef.
Seems people die for this shit. I'll give it a miss.
e2a; not because of the risk to me.
Seems people die for this shit. I'll give it a miss.
e2a; not because of the risk to me.
joustmaster
offcumdun
they are always alive.
and still in a closed shell.
a fish monger will open them for you, but you have to have them straight away.
spend €2.50 and try one..
and still in a closed shell.
a fish monger will open them for you, but you have to have them straight away.
spend €2.50 and try one..
i think they are glorious and amazing. Dublin is a great city for oysters, amazing! 
UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
Expensive do for what were once working class food!
They used the shells to wipe / scrape their arses, rinsed with a 5% Dettol solution afterwards, of course.
Fez909
toilet expert
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Expensive do for what were once working class food!
When I was at university I studied Scottish Gaelic for a while. There was a poem from the 17th century which basically consisted of the MacDonalds slagging the Campbells off. One of the insults they used was that the Campbells were 'shelly-mouthed' which is a pun on the Gaelic meaning of the name Campbell (Caim-beul, it literally means 'crooked mouth') because they were saying both that the Campbells were ugly with their crooked shell-shaped gobs but also that they were contemptible poor scum because in those days oysters were pure poverty food, the sort of thing you ate if you had no choice but to scavenge on the seashore. This is funnier when you know that the Campbells in question were ruling class in that area.
James Joyce totally trashes the evils of oysters (amazing description) in his chapter on 'food' (around episode 5) in Ulysses.
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Bluff (NZ) is the place for Oysters,fresh by the sugar bag (56lbs) mind you it's a long way to go for a feed and I can't stand them myself.i think they are glorious and amazing. Dublin is a great city for oysters, amazing!
well...im sure its good. But Dublin (espec Howth) is a top place for Oysters. There are many world renowned coastal places. and Im sure yours are alright like, mate.
I'm sure they are all good if you like them,ocker.
talk about coastal seafood places and i grew up in one...i have had top notch seafood in Norway, Russia, Iceland, Cuba, and Canada....amazing, but i STILL vouch for West of Ireland as the best in the world. For the best seafood of everything, go to the Aran Islands off Galway.....there, everything is top notch (espec shellfish). Of course, those who grow up beside coasts are very patriotic about it...(i did grow up in one, but not Aran Islands, jus being honest)
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Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Did you not bother to read the posts that maybe 25 people wrote in an effort to explain their thoughts on oysters?
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
They're not worth the price you were talking about paying.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
There is only 'fresh oysters'. They're a raw food.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I've done both. They taste exactly the same.
apart from when they're cooked, or smoked.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I think you should.
Millions of people eat them without incident but hey: you never know!
Kanda
Diving wanker
They're delicious. Never felt the need to season them though, they have a fairly delicate flavour and are best enjoyed unadorned. Kind of like seawater mixed with phlegm.
Seawater mixed with phlegm isn't too nice, I've been diving with a chest infection this week.. it's gross.
Fez909
toilet expert
If oysters are alive in the shell for 10 days then I doubt there's any noticeable difference between a fresh sea one and even one in a supermarket in Huddersfield two days later.
I never knew they were alive, though. So when I had one, had it been killed by the shell opening or did I tip a slimy, living bottom-dweller down my hatch for pay for the privilege?
I never knew they were alive, though. So when I had one, had it been killed by the shell opening or did I tip a slimy, living bottom-dweller down my hatch for pay for the privilege?
I never knew they were alive, though. So when I had one, had it been killed by the shell opening or did I tip a slimy, living bottom-dweller down my hatch for pay for the privilege?
Yes, they're still alive.
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