To think nobody really likes oysters?

[buddylicious]

(Lighthearted)

We were just watching a tv programme where somebody was eating oysters.

A friend who was here said "I don't believe anyone really likes oysters. They only eat them because they are pretentious".

I've tried them a few times and I'm not a great fan.

Was my friend right? 😜

I've had them, no desire to do so again.

I love them. Raw or tempura. Especially natives.

I love them.

But I also love being splashed in the face while sea swimming, and there’s a definite similarity.

@MartinMartinMarti

I love them.

But I also love being splashed in the face while sea swimming, and there’s a definite similarity.

May as well walk into the English Channel and swallow a mouthful of rancid seawater as eat an oyster

Yanbu. Your friend is right. Who likes swallowing a big blob of cold slimy fishy stuff whole?

Oysters and cucumber are more or less the only things I absolutely refuse to eat and I'll even give snails and liver a go.

Never had them, they look like snot in a shell. My parents like them though.

I have a friend who LOVES them. Like, they're her absolute favourite food and she'd always choose them if they were on a menu, and she seeks out new oyster places when she's away or in a new town or has any excuse for oysters.

I haven't ever tried them, but they look vile. I really like most shellfish, but the texture does not appeal to me.

They are pretentious nowadays but many many years ago they were a staple food for the poorer classes, the fishfingers and chips of their time.

Giant bogey. not envy

I like oysters but sadly they don’t like me.

I love them but can definitely understand why people wouldn't.

I genuinely like them, but only here in Jersey. I've tried them elsewhere and they're not the same.

That said, I often get 'the fear' after I've had them, and spend the next few hours psychosomatically imagining stomach twinges.

Not true. DH is incredibly unpretentious and he loves them. The freshness, the taste of the sea, with a squeeze of lemon or shallot vinegar.

This is a man that grew up in a council house eating Colmans sausage casserole.

I don’t like them, but he will choose them in a fish restaurant followed by beer battered fish, chips and mushy peas so no pretentiousness just a love of things he likes.

Oh I love cooked oysters from Riddle & Finns

I don't get the appeal. Tasteless, a bit rubbery, and you have to put something on them to make them flavoursome. I think they're an emperors new clothes food.

They're vile.
And they're usually alive when you swallow them

DS7 loves them to the point of biting into them and smearing the creamy interior onto his lips. I drench mine in lemon and swallow as quickly as possible. DH is quite fond. We eat them regularly (live walking distance from a seafood market). It's the only thing I eat which infuses me with energy. They're magic.

I agree, the Emperor's New Clothes of food.

No one can admit to it, but they're basically little pieces of snot.

Snot in an ashtray

I love them. Food of the gods.

Ooh I quite like them. Always like to get a starter of 6 oysters on ice to share with DP.

Me, DH and DS14 love them. On their own, with a squeeze of lemon or with a Thai dressing. They've got to be super fresh. Some of the best we've had was at a port town in France.

@ImInStealthMode

I genuinely like them, but only here in Jersey. I've tried them elsewhere and they're not the same.

That said, I often get 'the fear' after I've had them, and spend the next few hours psychosomatically imagining stomach twinges.

Are they known for upsetting your stomach?

The first time I tried them I just thought they were a lot of fuss about nothing, but they've actually really grown on me.

The first few times I ate them I just let them slide straight down (partially because of the ick factor), but I've now started properly feeling the texture of them, giving them a good tonguing, and savouring the taste (admittedly mostly a salty, lemony taste, but still one I enjoy), so yeah, lush.