As a new aficionado of Apalachicola oysters, I inquired of a local as to any truth to the myth. She said: “Nah, we eat them year round.” I figured the “month without an R” taboo was due to shipping them in summer months when they’d be more likely to spoil.
Times change. Oysters change. Farming/harvesting has changed.
It is not a myth but now no longer a taboo.
Summer months are when the waters are warm and bacteria levels are high........................
I read somewhere that it was more of a sexual cycle thing. After the oysters had expended all their energy making new oysters, there just wasn’t a lot of meat on the bones, so to speak. :)
Don’t know if that’s the reason, though. I’ve read a lot of stuff that isn’t so.