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  1. 1. Favorite oysters

    • East(pei, blue points,etc)
      17
    • West(Kumamoto, shugoku)
      8
    • Gulf
      6
    • Great Lakes. Oh wait
      0
    • Don’t eat oysters
      1


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57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Grew up loving smoked oysters on a cracker. My dad and I would set up a whole canned seafood buffet. L-I-V-I-N

Ain’t nothing wrong with tinned seafood. It is showing up in fine dining throughout the world, particularly Spain. 

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Grew up on Corpus Christi Bay, so Gulf Oysters were/are a staple.  Most of the Texas Coast gets farm-raised Oysters anyway now, so I feel less hinky about eating them in the warmer seasons.  

Fave place in NOLA is Royal House Oyster Bar.  Mandatory stop.  Usually hit up Felix at some point as well.

A trip to Monterey, CA last August had us sitting on the back patio of Osteria Al Mare with a bottle of something white, chilled, and exquisite and a constant supply of Oysters.  That was a good day.

That's all I got. 

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The saying about eating oysters only in months that have an R is from the days before refrigeration.  Oysters in summer are wonderful.  Wellfleet and beach blondes (RI) are my go to.

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I had a buddy whose family owned a place on puget sound. Tide went out on their rocky stretch of beach and it was a live oyster bed, thousands of em. There were weekends where we consume nothing but oysters, fresh crab, maybe some steaks and fucktons of ranier, whiskey, and weed.  but dozens and dozens of oysters. I shed a tear when they sold the place last year. 

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5 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Ain’t nothing wrong with tinned seafood. It is showing up in fine dining throughout the world, particularly Spain. 

Yep. All over Europe now you can find small shops that carry only tinned seafood with about a thousand varieties of sardines. A bit of craze at the moment. And this reminded me that my daughter brought me a tin of sardines from Portugal a few months ago. Might be time to bust out the beer, crackers and Frank’s.

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11 hours ago, elfenix said:

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with a sleeve of saltines, a bottle of crystal, and a cold shiner or two

 

(have not had this brand but they use korean oysters unlike the grocery store hecho in chine brands so thinking about getting a pack on amazon though it's probably also from the yellow sea and that place is gross)

Like the past couple posters said, get the Spanish or Portuguese stuff. Ramen in chicken broth with a tin of nuri sardines in oil is such good eats. 

10 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Grew up loving smoked oysters on a cracker. My dad and I would set up a whole canned seafood buffet. L-I-V-I-N

You misspelled LIVN

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15 hours ago, After irth said:

Grew up on Corpus Christi Bay, so Gulf Oysters were/are a staple.  Most of the Texas Coast gets farm-raised Oysters anyway now, so I feel less hinky about eating them in the warmer seasons.  

Fave place in NOLA is Royal House Oyster Bar.  Mandatory stop.  Usually hit up Felix at some point as well.

A trip to Monterey, CA last August had us sitting on the back patio of Osteria Al Mare with a bottle of something white, chilled, and exquisite and a constant supply of Oysters.  That was a good day.

That's all I got. 

Yes I’m New Orleans.  Plump and briny from what I remember

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Yes I’m New Orleans.  Plump and briny from what I remember

And oysters is something of a family tradition for some of us. My late mom was from NOLA. We’ve been a Felix’s family since around its founding. My mother’s pregnancy craving with me was ousters…she’d eat shucked oysters by the quart with a spoon. My dad used to get annoyed at my mom and me when we’d go to Ralph and Kacoo’s, and we’d each eat two dozen before dinner (“you’ll fill up on oysters!” Yeah…no we won’t). Fried oyster po boy is my favorite po boy. My daughter had her first chargrilled at Felix’s (she ate all of my order, I had to get another for myself). I’ve sat at the bar there and put away 5-6 dozen after arguing a case at 5th Circuit, as the shucker told us about his boys, one of whom was going to Tulane on a full ride…the other was going to Angola for life. Oysters are a cultural thing, too.
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23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Oysters are a cultural thing, too.

Yep. Which was the genesis of this thread.  They’re different in the gulf compared to the pnw, north east etc. ho knows what they’re like in other parts of the world ie South America, Asia, Africa. 

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On 6/6/2025 at 1:09 PM, cafe society said:

Nah, the owner had issues toward the end with paying his bills and folded about 15 years ago.  No idea what's there now.

 

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