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One woman, 223 oysters: New record set at Wintzell’s
AL.com ^ | 4-30-2019 | Lawrence Specker

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blueoystercult; oyster; oysters; pearls; record; wintzells; woman
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To: dp0622

The only time I tried a raw oyster, I got it half
down my throat and escorted it right back out.


21 posted on 04/30/2019 5:10:10 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: sparklite2

LOL


22 posted on 04/30/2019 5:10:59 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

I love raw oysters but quit eating them about 10 years ago. I don’t believe it’s worth the risk.

Many now are what they call “farm raised” and I believe they’re safer than what they used to be. I believe the farm raised are harvested in baskets in open waters where they have a pretty good flow of water but it’s still too risky for me.


23 posted on 04/30/2019 5:21:14 PM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott
Mountain oysters?


24 posted on 04/30/2019 5:29:02 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: All

25 posted on 04/30/2019 5:42:44 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Lurker
My god Jesus...I wonder if that would do the same thing to a woman as it would a man?

Ms Kristen Amy McElhaney


26 posted on 04/30/2019 6:06:54 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dp0622

There is a Damon Runyon Theater episode of a female power eater.

That probably inspired Little Lotta.


27 posted on 04/30/2019 6:09:10 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: boycott
I remember shucking them in college for a few days while in college to make some extra bucks. Many of them had some kind of mini starfish parasites. Don't know if I got them all!😎
28 posted on 04/30/2019 6:10:43 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: wally_bert

I have to go to Wikipedia to look up so many things so often on this site that’s it’s crazy :)

Looked up Damon Runyon Theater

Interesting.

I have to look things up because either i am just not well versed in the subject at hand or it was before my time.

If FR is still going in 20 years, I will be 71 and people will be looking up things I remember from my teens and 20s that I mention :)

And they will also be looking up everything about all the other subjects I learned on here.


29 posted on 04/30/2019 6:13:41 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: boycott
Pfft. The question is could she eat the ole' 96er.


30 posted on 04/30/2019 6:13:55 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
What about 50 eggs?


31 posted on 04/30/2019 6:16:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wally_bert

“There is a Damon Runyon Theater episode of a female power eater.”

Linda Lovelace?


32 posted on 04/30/2019 6:19:24 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: boycott

I won a contest by putting away 168 on a half shell in, I wanna say in 5 min. The following year I put a down a few less, and lost to two jar heads. On aside note, my son was born 9 months later. My wife swears this was cause and effect.


33 posted on 04/30/2019 6:22:15 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Bonemaker

Definitely predates Linda with a voice that would curdle milk.


34 posted on 04/30/2019 6:22:17 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: dp0622

Damon Runyon Theater is one of good discoveries on XM148.

It’s all on YouTube as well.

I like the music style in the Mayfair Production.


35 posted on 04/30/2019 6:25:29 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: boycott

At first glance I thought the article was about .223 oysters?


36 posted on 04/30/2019 6:26:07 PM PDT by RightInEastLansing
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To: wally_bert

I shall check it out.


37 posted on 04/30/2019 6:28:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Lurker

I see what you did there!


38 posted on 04/30/2019 6:29:50 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: dp0622

It’s all light hearted action comedy with normals, unsavory citizens and sometimes the gendarmes.


39 posted on 04/30/2019 6:30:30 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: wally_bert

Sounds good.

I’ve watched more than a few things i’ve been clued on in at this site.

It’s free, and if i don’t like it I turn it off.

If I like it, I’ve found something new to enjoy :)


40 posted on 04/30/2019 6:32:06 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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