Posted on 10/28/2009 7:22:46 AM PDT by Ebenezer
At the small warehouse tucked away in the back side of the French Quarter, the shuckers at P&J Oyster Co. have arrived before daybreak for 133 years.
Their in-shell and shucked oysters have been on the menus of generations of restaurateurs, from oysters on the halfshell at Acme Oyster House and Casemento’s to the seafood gumbo at Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse.
In less than two years, the tradition could become obsolete for seven months out of the year, based on newly announced oyster guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration.
In an effort to reduce cases of a rare, but potentially fatal, bacterial illness contracted from raw oysters, the FDA announced new rules this month that will require any oyster served from April through October to undergo a sterilization process before it can be sold in restaurants or on the market.
The rule will essentially eliminate raw oysters -- at least as Louisianans know them -- from restaurant menus for seven months of the year. Even oysters that will eventually be cooked during those months would have to go through the same cleansing process before being added to any dish, a move some say would undermine the culinary integrity of some of New Orleans’ most famous delicacies.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
A generous splash of Tabasco will kill any bacteria.
Just don’t eat oysters during any month with an “r” in it.
Or is it any month without an “r” in it? Now I forget.
See reply 12.
In case anybody is interested, the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals has a Molluscan Shellfish Program which monitors oyster production in the state:
http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=214
I know that the state of Maine keeps a close eye on clams and mussels, and if there is a red tide or other problem, they get the word out. We also have a local clam warden in the town where we go for the summer, and he takes his job seriesly.
There is always some risk simply being alive. But I think people really should be allowed to make their own choices. And I don’t know anyone who isn’t aware that there can be some risk in eating shelfish.
If you can’t have clams and lobsters in Maine, or crabs in Maryland, or oysters in Louisiana, then it’s time to abolish the FDA. Who seem to be too busy covering up for poisons from China to do their proper job anyway.
There never was a legitimate reason to create it. The FDA is responsible for more death and suffering than all the pathogens put together.
Need to go back to the beginning - and the 'representatives' go to DC, 'serve' as a public duty, and not with income and benies 10 x's higher than us working stiffs - and without the criminal retirement packages and required to live under any and all laws they impose on the people.
That would give us a better number of honest citizens serving and many less lawyers in gov't.
That would be a big start...Indeed, it should be against the law for lawyers to serve in congress or the senate.
In case anybody is interested, the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals has a Molluscan Shellfish Program which monitors oyster production in the state:
This FDA stuff is @rap. We are born with an oyster in our mouths. What the $ell are they doing? Trying to ruin an industry? I don’t know of anyone who ever got sick eating an oyster ( I am sure they exhist). More people get sick over bad sushi I am sure!!! Being from the 1950s where I felt real freedom from gov., THIS intrusion is what really makes me sick.
In case anybody is interested, the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals has a Molluscan Shellfish Program which monitors oyster production in the state:
This FDA stuff is @rap. We are born with an oyster in our mouths. What the $ell are they doing? Trying to ruin an industry? I don’t know of anyone who ever got sick eating an oyster ( I am sure they exhist). More people get sick over bad sushi I am sure!!! Being from the 1950s where I felt real freedom from gov., THIS intrusion is what really makes me sick.
Breakfast of champians.
Breakfast of champians."
You know it! And no threat at all to arteries or waistlines LOL!
Go commies! They will never win another election on the coast again!
Good morning! I’m pinging the folks who commented on this thread because on the local news (Monroe) last night, there was a story that the Obama administration had backed-off the proposed guidelines that would have destroyed a good portion of the oyster economy here in Louisiana. Seems there was a pretty big uproar from “We The People”.
Bbut if they sterilize them, how will they reproduce??
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