Posted on 07/31/2010 7:45:12 AM PDT by houeto
Did I say that?
If July is in season when is the off season?
The season in Mississippi is when, and only when, our masters tell us it is.
LOL! OK, whatever. Try to stay out of jail so you can vote ‘em out in November.
I think you are going by the ol’ R month thing. Here’s a FDA statement...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/food-safety-fda-ban-unpasteurized-oysters-summer/story?id=8960440
More than a billion oysters are harvested each year from the Gulf of Mexico. They’re fried, broiled, barbecued, served Rockefeller and sucked down raw throughout the country.
Nearly all the oysters consumed in the U.S. are farmed from cultures. And refrigeration makes them safe to eat year-round.
But there is something to the old saying that oysters should only be consumed in months where the name includes an “R” (i.e. not in the summer): It is a bacteria called vibrio vulnificus.
Of the very many people who eat those oysters, it is a pretty small subset — 15 per year in the United States, on average — who die from the bacteria vibrio vulnificus, which can become concentrated in oysters harvested in the summer and eaten raw. Another 15 suffer permanent health problems, from kidney failure
Those 15 deaths are enough for the Food and Drug Administration to announce this month that starting in 2011, it will ban the sale of oysters harvested between April and October from the Gulf of Mexico that have not been treated — essentially pasteurized — to rid them of the vibrio bacteria.
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LOL! Kinda like they used to say YAH-zoo City, before Haley Barbour became prominent, and they finally learned how to pronounce it properly.
Well for crying out loud, you just told us - in the surf off Galveston Island ;-)
*snicker*
You got the memo? ;)
"Lord, help my time."
Kemah is in my stomping grounds. Back in the early 60's, my Pawpaw and Grandma would take me to Kemah on Sunday afternoons to eat fried shrimp.
One of my favorite memories in life!
My very earliest memories are of Kemah. My dad worked for the Humble Company and we lived in the Humble Camp (company housing). I used to know where it was but the last time I was on 149 it was so changed that I could no longer see the exact spot. We moved from there when I was about 3 but continued to go back because mom and dad had friends there. I have great memories of Clear Lake and Kemah and that area. In about 1988 we bought a house on Tiki Island and sold it in 2001. I also lived on Galveston Island in ‘59 & ‘60. My grandfather survived the 1900 storm and I heard about it from him many times. I love that grubby ugly part of Texas but I haven’t been down there since Ike killed the oak trees on the island.
Yippeeeee!!!
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