National Oyster day
5Today Aug 5 is national oyster day.
Some things to consider
- Donate to project to help grow oyster reefs (they are naturally water filters about 50 gallons a day)
- Oysters raw, or fried are delicious demand for oysters as food increases pressure to keep them growing
- Oyster reefs are good for lots of baby marine life too
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Love me a Po’Boy!
@mfladd OMG, people eat that? Just looking at that, I feel a heart attack coming on.
@Barney I have learned to love it living on the Eastern Shore. What I will not eat is Scrapple or Muskrat.
@mfladd But what are you arteries saying about it?
@Barney I don’t pay them no mind.
@mfladd I tried that. It doesn’t work.
@mfladd yowser!
@mfladd Wow. That’s quite a FAIL oyster po’boy you got there. You should ask for your money back for false advertising. A fried oyster sandwich it certainly is, maybe even a delicious one, but a po’boy it most certainly ain’t.
This is what a dressed New Orleans erstah poboy looks like:
Preferably from Domilese’s or overstuffed from New Orleans Seafood on Jeff Hwy at the zig-zag.
Correction: NO Seafood Co on Jeff Hwy is Crabby Jack’s now. Has been for a while, but that’s the name it was growing up.
@mike808 and damn good poboys there…i esp like a fried oyster poboy myself…or half fried shrimp/half fried oyster…
@amehzinggrace Pssst. Soft-shell crab poboy. You can thank me later.
@mike808 I’ve enjoyed that too…I had forgotten that one though…
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/rhode-island/clam-cake-crawl-ri/
/image mountain oyster
@medz don’t let anyone “steer” you wrong on those. They are pretty tasty… no bull!
@chienfou @medz Agreed. They’re not baaaaad.
Please don’t eat gulf oysters in the summer. Yuck. They’re all milky and the heat isn’t good for the bad bacteria that grow like crazy in warm water and make you sick.
There is a reason we say in the South “Don’t eat raw oysters in a month without an ‘R’.” And August is one of those. New England or Pacific Northwest, different story. I’ll pass on the raw oysters and shooters in the summer, thank you.
@mike808 let’s hear it for Vibrio. Even oysters in Apalachicola are crappy in the summer.
@chienfou PSA on Vibrio:
What are Vibrio bacteria?
Vibrio bacteria naturally live in certain coastal waters and are present in higher concentrations between May and October when water temperatures are warmer.
You can get a Vibrio infection (Vibriosis) from eating raw oysters.
How do people get vibriosis?
Most people become infected by eating raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters. Certain Vibrio species can also cause a skin infection when an open wound is exposed to salt water or brackish water. Brackish water is a mixture of fresh and salt water, often found where rivers meet the sea.
The Gulf coast is basically one giant brackish wetland estuary.
Source: CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/vibrio/faq.html
I will pass regardless of the time of year, thanks.
@tinamarie1974 This too, shall pass.
@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 Sometimes within 24 hours, and occasionally via the same way they went in.
@mike808 @therealjrn
