I've often quipped that I'd "eat my weight" in oysters....
BUT.....
200+ oysters is a tad much even for me...
LOL
Posted on 04/30/2019 4:34:20 PM PDT by boycott
“I never thought I’d say this, but that’s a lot of oysters,” Kristen Amy McElhaney said Tuesday, about two-thirds of the way to setting a new women’s record at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile.
Since she was a little girl, McElhaney had wanted to be on the board of recordholders at Wintzell's. And now, at 33, she'd decided to go for it and raise some funds for the Distinguished Young Women scholarship competition. She'd been a participant in 2002, and an oyster-eating challenge has long been a part of the AJM/DYW experience.
But McElhaney wasn't playing at the amateur level anymore. Now she was trying to top a women's record of 215 raw oysters downed in an hour, set by Beth Larimore Carter on May 1, 1997.
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I’ve eaten upwards of 50 and have thought about competitive eating.
Because I’m not fat enough already and it would speed up my heart attack :)
Ironically, some of the best are thin.
“I don’t think I could survive 223 oysters.”
I might but Mrs. L surely wouldn’t.
;-)
L
The trick is to hork them all down, beat the record, then blow chunks in the bathroom
(For anyone looking to compete at the professional level)
:)
He said, "Dip it in cocktail sauce, chew three times, and swallow."
It was wonderful! And without the cocktail sauce, it tastes like the sea.
I cannot tell much from the videos but this woman isn’t that overweight.
Lock her in the bathroom for 48 hours and no matter what you hear from inside, DON’T OPEN THE DOOR!
YAY!! In the ‘new America’ we celebrate abortion, perversion and now gluttony!
I agree ....... DON’T OPEN THE DOOR!
I learned a new urban dictionary word.
I don’t eat oysters or clams — they look like what I cough-up in the morning — so I don’t even worry about it. Now, shrimp, lobster and crab; that’s another story.
Shrimp, lobster, and crab? Those are all just big bugs that live in the ocean. (I’ll eat plenty of any of them, by the way. Especially Dungeness crab.)
Grew up eating them at an oyster house at the beach thanks to my dad. (I prefer whole lolbster.).
One time my mom found a pearl.
Those are bugs.
Oysters, no thank you.
....Chances are that if you consume raw oysters you won’t become infected with Vibrio vulnificus. Such cases, fortunately, are quite rare. However, eating raw oysters can be like playing a slot machine where you won’t like what may come out if you hit the jackpot. Other pathogens can be present. For example earlier this year the FDA issued a norovirus warning about oysters harvested from British Columbia, Canada, (specifically the south and central parts of Baynes Sound), which shucked. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada there were 176 cases of oyster-related gastrointestinal illness between mid-March and mid-April 2018, including 137 in British Columbia, 14 in Alberta, and 25 in Ontario. The outbreak spread to the U.S. too, resulting in at least 100 cases in California. As I mentioned previously in Forbes, this gastrointestinal virus can cause quite severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea in the 70% or more of those who are infected. So if you were looking for an aphrodisiac and accidentally ate a norovirus-tainted oyster, passion may not be the main thing that will be flowing.
Whether raw oysters can actually serve as an aphrodisiac is still up for debate, but that’s another question for another time. There are plenty of other claims out there about raw oysters that have absolutely no scientific basis. For example, hot sauce or alcohol ain’t going to kill pathogens like Vibrio or norovirus. Avoiding oysters from polluted waters is not going to prevent you from getting sick, although seeking oysters from polluted waters is not going to be better. You can’t always tell if an oyster is safe. Oysters may look perfectly normal but still have microbes lurking in them. And avoiding oysters in months that don’t have the letter “r” (which corresponds to the warmer summer months) won’t really help.
The best way to prevent disease from raw oysters is to not eat raw oysters and cook them instead. Sure, many people eat raw oysters each year without getting sick. Sure, if you are otherwise healthy, you may survive an infection from raw oysters without any lasting effects. But there is the chance that you could suffer longer-term consequences and potentially even die, especially if you have liver disease, diabetes or any condition that may weaken your immune system. Is it worth the risk?
I love fried oysters. But the bravest man who
ever lived was the first one to eat a raw oyster.
I Love raw, but yeah I wouldn’t have been the first to try it :)
More than a few first ones to try a food/fruit didn’t do so well!
I’m assuming poisonous berries and mushroom etc., were found to be poisonous the hard way.
You see he had just mixed up some horseradish & ketchup so he had to put it on something!
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