I knew a guy in Louisiana that died of iodine poisoning from eating too many oysters. His blood vessels collapsed and it was a horrible death. His skin color turned black.
“I knew a guy in Louisiana that died of iodine poisoning from eating too many oysters.”
Somebody should’a told him not to eat the shell!
He must have had some type of disorder that caused him to absorb metabolize and absorb too much.
I’m from Louisiana. When I was in high school, we went to Phil’s Oyster Bar and Seafood Market on Government Street in Baton Rouge every Thursday (only eat oysters harvested during winter) after school and ate raw oysters...sometimes 3-4-5 dozen for each of us, dipped in cocktail sauce with lots of horseradish and Tabasco...they never asked for ID so we could have a couple of their giant draft beers. We always went on Thursday because that is when the weekend shipment of fresh oysters came in. Sometimes we would take several dozen home with us to fry up for Po-boys on the weekends. The only bad effect that I had was that I got Hep-A...but recovered.
Phil’s is still in existence but has moved and become more of a full service seafood restaurant.