I might regret this......

[mtt.tr]

I can scoff a pint of whelks without any issues. Never tried the oysters, just seems wrong eating something like that raw.

Bob

I do like I well vinegared welk

 

[Morrisman]

Not until Hell freezes over! Body 'art' will never be my thing, but if others want some, crack on. And no lads, we don't need pics!

Second form of artwork known to man, cave walls was the first.

And yes, I'm covered in the stuff, all done before it became fashionable though.

 

[DAPPH]

Tonight I'm going to tick an item off my (mental) bucket list and sample my first ever oyster.

Wish me luck......

Hope for your sake and health it was not a " Blue oyster ".

 

[DAPPH]

I was quite disappointed by the flavour and texture. I just recently had scallops, fresh off the boat. Thought I was in for a real treat, a lot of people I know rave about them. Won’t be bothering again

I find that cooked to a slight orangy golden brown colour in a lightly buttered frying pan they are quite nice but either side of that colour only good for bait .

 

[DAPPH]

Love them..scallops as well.. not had cockles for donkeys years

Last time I had cooked cockles was in 1971 from a fresh fish stall in Basildon , I've never ever been so ill . Was VSI for five days and now carry an intolerance to most over the counter cooked shell fish save for scallops

 

[DAPPH]

Donkeys ears? Now your talking, taste like chicken..

Foul ?

 

[Seadog]

I find that cooked to a slight orangy golden brown colour in a lightly buttered frying pan they are quite nice but either side of that colour only good for bait .

They're delicious raw.

 

[redlig]

Which cheek?

The other one.

 

[Migmac]

We take the ears off all the deer we shoot. We’re told they use them for dog chews, perhaps not

 

[cheb]

Pigs ears are what pork scratchings are made of, fried in their own wax.

 

[badabec]

Are Mountain Oysters next on the (mental) bucket list?

 

[Keith 66]

Lots of oysters growing in the Thames & Medway estuaries now, I know a few places where they are so thick on the ground that they are becoming reefs, great pacific oysters as big as your fist. So many that you could step out of a dinghy & fill it to the gunwales in ten minutes. I have eaten them fried in butter with chopped up bacon & they were quite good.
Not so sure about eating them raw from round here though, mainly on account of them being filter feeders, the waters off Southend are not particularly clean & there is a lot of untreated raw sewage goes into it. Not to mention plastics & toxic heavy metals from antifouling.
My wife helped set up Southend councils oyster patrol as they were getting large numbers of chinese & eastern european people picking them , funny thing was west of the pier it was supposed to be safer than east of it, the fact that the same tide flowed east to west twice a day i found it hard to understand!
The east europeans were usually families out for a forage & were ok, the chinese were doing it on an industrial scale often shucking the oysters where they were picked & packing the meat into 25kg tubs ten or twenty at a time. You most definately would not want to eat those but apparently they were sold or made into oyster sauce in the east end of london & further afield, A murky trade indeed!
One van load of unshucked oysters my wife had to take to the public health incinerator in Gravesend, this was after someone "lost" their paperwork & they had started to die after a weekend power cut in their cool room. By the time her & her oppo got to Gravesend they had both windows open on the van.
If you get a bad one you will know all about it!

 

[Seadog]

I've eaten oysters gleaned from the rocks at Clacton. Very nice they were too.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Are Mountain Oysters next on the (mental) bucket list?

Definitely not.

 

[Seadog]

They're very nice cubed, breaded, and fried.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

They're very nice cubed, breaded, and fried.

I'll take your word for it.

 

[dobbslc]

Not until Hell freezes over! Body 'art' will never be my thing, but if others want some, crack on. And no lads, we don't need pics!

What about the ladies?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

What about the ladies?

Purely in the interests of equality, them too I suppose.

 

[redlig]

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Wallmart customers ? Fred.