One woman, 223 oysters: New record set at Wintzell’s

AL.com ^ | 4-30-2019 | Lawrence Specker

[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.

[Rebelbase]

Or Mr. Creosote's meal?

[wally_bert]

I’ve learned to appreciate old time radio shows.

Some have aged better.

I’ve run all kinds of terms, actual people mentioned, and the like and learned a bit.

[wally_bert]

A piece of pie:

https://youtu.be/6mWjydUg2wA

[Califreak]

I don’t believe I would survive even one.

They remind me of..... pneumonia for some reason...

[Jack Hammer]

Yeccchhhhh.....

[King Moonracer]

I had a sinus infection once that seemed like eating 223 oysters.

[dp0622]

It’s a radio show :)

FIRST one I’ve ever listened to.

It’s very ironic that right now I have a friend who has to get to a certain weight or his future wife won’t marry him :)

It’s good stuff but at first it’s strange because you don’t have visuals and you have to make these people up as to what they are going to look like in your head.

You actually have to think :)

I’m going to tell my youngest niece about it so she can faint at the idea of no video :)

Thanks for sharing. I’ll ask mom tomorrow if she knows about it.

[dp0622]

you DID say it was a radio show.

Time to start paying more attention on this end :)

[sparklite2]

Lord knows I tried.
And I do like ‘em fried.
But eating them raw,
just sticks in my craw.

[Hot Tabasco]

That was fun to watch. The gal certainly has a good sense of humor.....

[Hot Tabasco]

I like oysters but for some reason every time I’ve eaten mussels I’ve gotten sick......

[Mr. K]

Its been around- watch the movie “Ratatouille”

[Rastus]

Whoa. I dig her.

[sparklite2]

Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind.

[mabarker1]

Because I’m not fat enough already and it would speed up my heart attack :)

Try looking at it this way.

Built for Comfort, not for Speed🤑

[mabarker1]

Better than being a test subject for the Chinese while they were figuring out Accupuncture.

They tested with Death Row Prisoners. If the Needle went in and the Prisoner Died They checked it a few more times and then either put a ✅ or a ❌ on the Chart.