Posted on 04/10/2025 4:39:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Love oysters fried ... can tolerate roasted. No raw or as a sweet dessert.
Let me try to explain to you about unclean foods. We live in a world that was prepared for us. Every creature that exists is for us to use for our benefit.
However, not all things can be eaten by us as they have other purposes or are foods for creatures that are meant for us to eat.
For example, if I were a 5 star Michelin chef and I prepared a bowl of viruses and bacteria that was made to perfection, would you eat it. I assure you that it would be delicious? What about black flies and their larvae form? A little marination in red wine and smoked in a hickory oven. Would you eat my preparations? Probably not.
You recognize in principle that there are foods that a human should not eat. However, those foods were still prepared for some other creature to eat. Those foods, for other creatures can be eaten by them without harm and the bad things about those foods filtered out by other animals and good nutrition is absorbed. Then those animals that eat black flies are then eaten by another creature who does the same thing. This process goes on until an animal that we are supposed to eat has been prepared for us to consume it. Oysters clean the ocean. It absorbs a lot of poison the process. However, the animals that eat the oyster is either fit for us to eat or they are eaten by an animal that is fit for us to eat.
So the animals we can eaten are representative of bugs and bacteria and oysters that have gone through mother nature’s filtering system.
Totally AGREE
I don’t know about you, but I don’t eat raw meat or raw fish.
Cooking to the proper temperature kills bacteria, so I tend to overcook a little to make sure. I tried a cooked oyster many years ago but didn’t care for the taste or the texture. I am aghast that anyone would deliberately consume raw oysters.
I do gamble with chocolate chip cookie dough and cake mix bowl
and beater cleaning. So far, I have never been zapped by a small amount of raw egg in those two instances.
On the Eastern Shore of Maryland there were huge shell piles left by the indians. I remember roads paved with crushed shells.
You’re on! I could go for some etouffee and beignets, too, me.
Better check the weather down there first, though:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahh8ctxlr2I
You reminded me of a New Orleans story.
Was sitting on a balcony on bourbon street at a restaurant no longer around called, I wanna say Seaport, or something similar.
The owner was a creole woman in her 80’s.
Ordered the sampler, included jambalaya, etoufee, fried catfish, red beans and other stuff. Drinks were being consumed.
About halfway through dinner, a bunch of people came out the drag bar across the street.
A fight was happening.
We continued our dinner watching a Cher impersonator and someone that looked like Divine start slapping the hell out of each other.
Dinner, and a free show!
Mais la! Great NOLA story! I love it.
Drinks are always being consumed in Louisiana comme ca, bruh. Lots of free shows, too.
Wish I could get over this hankering for an oyster PO Boy. It just won’t go away.
starvation is a great motivator
I hate regular s’mores, and the cutesy name just makes them complete insufferable. This is three clicks below that level
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If you thought a food was great, but it had a cutesie name, would you not eat it?
I like S’mores, once in a rare while; however, this DISGUSTING, STOMACH TURNING variation is the pits!As far as I’m concerned, it’s INSTANT GARBAGE, should anyone have the temerity to ever attempt to serve me such a thing.
Commercial, as opposed to high quality made by a confectioner, marshmallow in disgusting and inedible. I don’t like the cutesy names a lot of fast food items are given, I do eat them, but I know of no high quality food that has a cutesy name
Foie gras? Bird’s nest soup?
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