Oyster Lovers Check In

[AKPacker]

Who loves them and how do you like them?

[CatWoman]

1. ME!! ME!!!

But only raw.

with lemon, tabasco and maybe a touch or worchershire.

[bigwillq]

2. OOOH baby she likes it raw!

:hi:

[AKPacker]

4. Raw

is the best!

[CatWoman]

5. hey

it's the ONLY way

:hi:

[AKPacker]

7. Tomorrow is

Super Oyster Sunday. Shuck, slide, swallow. Chase it down with a cold beer. Heaven on earth

[AKPacker]

3. A woman after my own heart

I sometimes use a little hot sauce. Yummy!

:hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

6. I love 'em Bar-B-Qed because thep open automatically

I'm a very slow shucker with a streak of laziness! ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Oh, yes! I love 'em in oyster stew, smoked, raw on shell, steamed in shell

in a sandwich, deep fried, pan fried... I've never had an oyster prepared in a way that I didn't like.

Though when it comes to eating them raw, two or three is enough.

[Radical Activist]

9. They outlawed that in Alabama

Oysters are for eatin, not luvin!

[redwitch]

11. Dirty minds think alike!

:-)

[Radical Activist]

13. hehe

I couldn't type the other jokes I wanted to make.

[AKPacker]

16. Type away

n/t

[redwitch]

10. If you are loving oysters...

please use birth control. we don't want any shellfish-human hybrids, OK? :-)

[EstimatedProphet]

12. You betcha!

Personally, my favorite is baked on the half shell. A little garlic, some lemon juice, cracked pepper, paprika and some tarragon. YUMMY!

[AKPacker]

15. 2 dozen raw

2 dozen on the half shell... is it Sunday yet?

[Reciprocity]

14. I like mine fried, in a shooter, and blue.

Fried
1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups milk
1/4 cup melted bacon fat or butter
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups peanut oil, for deep-frying
36 freshly shucked oysters
Lemon wedges, as accompaniment

In a medium bowl, combine the cornmeal, flour, eggs, milk, bacon fat, baking
powder and salt. Stir until the batter is smooth.

In a large saucepan or deep-fryer, heat the oil to 375F. Dredge each oyster
in the cornmeal batter and fry in batches until golden brown, about 1 minute.
Remove the oysters with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Serve
with lemon wedges.

Shooters
recipe yield: 12 shooters.
INGREDIENTS:
1 (10 ounce) container raw oysters
9 fluid ounces tomato juice
1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
2 teaspoons pepper
12 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers vodka
1 lemon - cut into wedges, for garnish
~~
DIRECTIONS:
In a mixing bowl, combine tomato juice, horseradish and pepper. Mix thoroughly. Cut the lemon into 6 wedges.
Pour 1/2 shot of tomato juice mixture into a small glass. Add a shot of vodka. Put 1 raw oyster in the glass and garnish with lemon wedge.

Blue
Dont´t Fear the Reaper
Blue Öyster Cult

All our times have come
Here but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the reaper
Nor do the wind the sun or the rain (we can be like they are)
Come on baby (don't fear the reaper)
Baby take my hand (don't fear the reaper)
We'll be able to fly (don't fear the reaper)
Baby I'm your man
La-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la

Valentine is done
Here but now they're gone
Romeo and Juliet
Are together in eternity (Romeo and Juliet)
40,000 men and women everyday (like Romeo and Juliet)
40,000 men and women everyday (redefine happiness)
Another 40,000 coming everyday (we can be like they are)
Come on baby (don't fear the reaper)
Baby take my hand (don't fear the reaper)
We'll be able to fly (don't fear the reaper)
Baby I'm your man
La-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la

Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew then disappeared
The curtains flew then he appeared (saying don't be afraid)
Come on baby (and she had no fear)
And she ran to him (then they started to fly)
They looked backward and said goodbye (she had become like they are)
She had taken his hand (she had become like they are)
Come on baby (don't fear the reaper)

[AKPacker]

17. God

What memories that song brings back! :headbang:

[EstimatedProphet]

21. I saw Blue Oyster Cult with Black Sabbath in 1980

My first rock concert. St. Louis Checkerdome.

[Reciprocity]

23. So would they be considered a heavy metal band?

The reason I ask, is I had an exchange with some twenty somethings about what heavy metal music is nowadays.

[EstimatedProphet]

24. Probably

Black Sabbath is kind of the forerunner to Death Metal

[cry baby]

18. I love oysters any way, but my fav is on the half shell.

[Reciprocity]

19. Funny story about oysters in central Texas.

This has been years ago (25 plus years), my husband and I were on a geology filed trip in central Texas, Johnson City I believe. We went to eat a local restaurant for dinner where he ordered a dozen oysters on the half shell. Well he waited, and he waited, and he waited. What he got when they finally arrived was six in shell and six in a bowl and just in time for dessert. Okay we thought it was odd when the waitress kept hovering at our table after the oysters were served when she was mostly absent before they arrived. Finally in desperation she admitted that all she wanted was the shells. Turns out that someone else ordered oysters and she needed to run the shells through the dishwasher. Needless to say this explained the mystery of why his order was so long in coming.

[AKPacker]

20. Oh My God

That is hilarious. I used to work in a small "upscale" restaurant and that story just hit me where I live.

[davsand]

22. Raw. They gotta be raw and fresh!

I'll eat them any way I can get them--baked, fried, scalloped, in a stew--any way I can get them is great. However, RAW oysters that are fresh shucked are to DIE for.

I'd crawl over broken oyster shells (or broken glass!) to get fresh shucked oysters.



Laura

[AKPacker]

25. How about raw

and about a half hour out of cold Alaskan water. These are are so fresh that the oyster fights back and sometimes wins!