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 love them. Now I'm thinking I need to eat oysters next time we go out for dinner!!

Just wanted to check that everyone does know that oysters are ALIVE when you eat them?
That changed it for me.

@Lightstoobright

Just wanted to check that everyone does know that oysters are ALIVE when you eat them? That changed it for me.

Yep, knew that.

Love them. Just a splash of fresh lemon juice. Delicious, esp the ones with big creamy centres.

You're right. Like snot going down the back of yr throat was my thought the first and last time i tried them.

Ill try anything once but normally wouldnt rule out a second try so categorically

@itsnotdeep

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

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

Yupp

I love oysters! I would eat them every day if I could. They're delicious, especially with a small squeeze of lemon.

We had them in New York on our first night . It's just weird swallowing and lump of < insert what you want here > and getting the benefit of lemon and Tabasco sea water .
I won't bother again.

@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.

Your husband might be unpretentious but you're definitely not. How dreadful that he grew up in a council house and had Colman's!

I'm not a fan having tried them before but I'll wolf down mussels 😋

I was really shocked when my friends 2 kids, 8 and 9, were tucking in to oysters on their day out!! My 8yo would run screaming to social services if I offered him oysters or mussels!!

@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.

I have grown to enjoy the slimy, gooey texture, as well as the salty, fishy taste, in combination with the taste of the lemon juice or vinegar and shallots.

It’s a texture you can’t really find in any other food, so when I’m eating one I feel like it’s one-off experience I need to savour.

i was told that in France they say it’s like “snogging the sea”, which I find simultaneously disturbing and fascinating..l

I love them!

Snogging the sea describes it perfectly!

[quote Erinyes]**@HaggisBurger* and @HELLITHURT*, I was actually thinking of the Galway one, bu Clarenbridge works too! (The Cork one is more Murphy’s than Guinness…)[/quote]
Is Clarenbridge not the Galway one? It’s in Galway, no? I didn’t know there was a Cork one too. Mmmmm

I love them - so does DH. A friend got married in Whitstable and had an oyster and champagne bar and DH and I basically hung out there.

I love them and I'm definitely not pretending to be pretentious. I'm fairness though they are an acquired taste and I didn't like them when I tried them when I was in my teens. I tried them again in my twenties and I don't know maybe my palate had changed but I liked them and have ever since. I've always liked mussels, clams etc. I don't think you can beat the fresh taste of them. Nothing quite like a plate of oysters by the sea.

@HaggisBurger, my understanding (which is vague, as I’m vegetarian and haven’t eaten seafood of any kind since my teens) is that Clarenbridge was the location of the original Galway Oyster Festival, but split off as a separate entity at some point…?

@HaggisBurger I think the Cork one is not on this year, after further research it would seem the last one was 2020 :-(

Only tried them once. The experience felt like sucking up someone else's big lump of phlegm from the sea.

Snot in a shell

[quote HELLITHURT]@HaggisBurger I think the Cork one is not on this year, after further research it would seem the last one was 2020 :-([/quote]
There will be the Kinsale Gourmet one, which is pretty seafood-focused, I imagine.

I don’t get the love of them gristly giant bogey with a slight fishy taste

I was in a restaurant recently and the lady on the next table was eating live sea urchin now that I really don’t understand apparently it’s delicious 🤢

I've eaten them when out but I don't love them. I read somewhere that 1 in 10 oysters contain norovirus and since then I don't really eat them.

I love all seafood and fish, including eel and whelks, mussels and prawns, but I'm just not keen on the likelihood of getting sick with oysters!

I really love them and I'm not just saying that ! It's something about the after taste. I can't explain it, but I love it. Initially I thought they were gross too, but now I can't get enough.

Caviar as well. Absolutely delicious and moorish. Literally can't get enough. I sometimes treat myself to caviar / oysters and champagne at harrods. Yum yum.

I love them but cooked. I prefer raw fish usually (sashimi and in sushi) but oysters are so much nicer cooked - in soup, nabe or deep fried.