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? 😜

Love them. Nothing better than buying them fresh from the ports in France. Whitstable ones are also good. Have them with a splash of lemon juice.

I love them, particularly with a lemon and chilli salsa. My dh hates them with a vengeance. I think oysters really splits opinions, a bit like marmite. For the record, I loathe marmite!

I love oysters. Really sad that I can't eat them while pregnant

Revolting things, along with cockles & mussels, actually all shellfish is pretty grim to me. Don't get me started on prawns with eyes & legs still on 🤢

A friend of mine just had his luck run out with oysters. He was laid up in bed for a week after a batch gave him a nasty bout of d & v. I've never tried them. I love most seafood but cooked. I never will try oysters. Its like Russian roulette.

@FreeButtonBee

LOVE them. With nice sharp mignonette. And even these days they are aren’t that dear. A pound an oyster and I live in poncy London. 6 or 8 for a special starter - light and refreshing and totally exhilarating. You’d pay just as much for some Asda beige prawn sharing platter.

That said I can totally understand why people don’t like them. But to say they are pretentious is a bit excessive.

I don't think she meant that oysters themselves are pretentious. She wouldn't be concerned about their cost and they aren't expensive.

She feels that the people who eat them are pretentious as they just pretend they like them to show off in front of others!

I love them. I have the often but only with the right accompaniment as otherwise they just taste of bogeys

@FreeButtonBee

Apologies, I've worded my last post completely wrong as you can't get a pretentious oyster!!!!

Just ignore me!

@3luckystars

Rick Stein loves them but that’s all, and he could be just pretending for the tv.

He ate some horrible bean muck with walnut oil last night in France and it looked like a plate of sick, he said he loved it.
He then ate the inside of a sea urchin, it looked like a giant corona virus with black eggs and he was in heaven.

So I’m summary, Rick Stein may or may like oysters but we can’t really trust him.

I've never tried them and I never plan to.

The thoughts of eating something that's still alive and has the consistency of snot.... no thanks.

I like them. Also love mussels and prawns etc

Totally understand how the texture puts some people off though.

@Winnerwinnerveggiedinner

What’s so horny about swallowing a dollop of fishy phlegm? 🙂

😂😂 It’s all that zinc / entirely because we’ve been told they are an aphrodisiac…

I've noticed that everyone who 'loves them' hasn't said why. There really is nothing to love. Slimy, salty... 🤔.... maybe the aphrodisiac aspect is in the similarity to swallowing semen.

I love them! Like tasting the sea.. 🧜‍♀️

I have never had a bad one, but dodgy seafood can do terrible things. It’s not true you always get a bad reaction once you’ve had one though - assuming it’s food poisoning and not a late onset allergy.

I'm sure that there must be some people that actually enjoy them but I'm definately not one of them.

Bloody love them

It’s like gargling with seaweed🤢 (not envy!!)

It's just food - what is pretentious about them? ridiculous to think people are pretending to like them, why in earth would they?

I love them but it took me about three or four goes before I started to love them - think it's something that grows on you, not just the flavour (tastes if the sea) they make you feel good. Also I only eat them with friends and family and it always feels a bit specially somehow.

Nothing like snot / body parts...just fresh delicious salty umami.

@WutheringHeights66

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.

And once again, a council house is the yardstick of and shorthand for unutterable crassness and poverty

I think “the taste of the sea” is the exact thing I hate about oysters.

love them

Didn't Micheal Winner get really ill from eating a bad oyster, which he never really recovered from and eventually led to his failing health and death? I remember reading an interview with him and the journalist asked if he had any advice for their readers and Mr Winner replied "Yes, never eat oysters".

I've tried them once in Dublin. Never been so ill in all my life. I believe they can carry norovirus if they don't come from really clean water?

@rookiemere

I really wanted to like them after reading in a Martin Amis novel that they are alive when you squeeze the lemon juice on them and are flinching. But they taste vile.

You wanted to eat them because they are alive and flinch? Sadist .

I don’t mind them. Don’t love them. Quite like the scope for different “toppings” / flavourings / garnish

@MerryMarigold

I've noticed that everyone who 'loves them' hasn't said why. There really is nothing to love. Slimy, salty... 🤔.... maybe the aphrodisiac aspect is in the similarity to swallowing semen.

Yes, probably all a big plan to make women think swallowing is a good idea not envy.

about not being able to trust Rick Stein.