They are slimy and have no real taste themselves.
Why do people lie and say oysters are tasty?
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They’re good. Overpriced (similar to lobster), but definitely good food.
I’ve tried raw oysters and agree. I like smoked oysters and also oysters Rockefeller.
Lobster is also overrated. I much prefer shrimp and crab.
I like shrimp. Crawfish >>> shrimp. When you can get the good LA product rather than the farm-raised Chinese stuff.
I’ve never had crawfish, so I’ll take your word for it.
Crab>>>>>lobster fo sho. Now, raw oysters are good but you gotta get the boutique ones. Usually from Pacific NW or NE Atlantic in my experience. Florida oysters are shit imo.
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My wife loves the shit out of crawfish. I think it's fvcking disgusting. To each their own.
Oysters are amazing. It's OP"s mom who is slimy without taste. Which is shocking because of the smell.
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For the best, you have to be in Lousiana in the spring. Crawfish boils, crawfish etoufee, crawfish pie...
Smoked oysters aren't bad.
All others are slimy and disgusting. Consistency of covid snot....
I love oysters but a lot of that is the experience. Most of the raw oysters I've eaten were at the half shell raw bar in key west right on the water. The smell of the ocean, oysters/crackers/horseradish/hot sauce, beer, sports on the TV, and good bar tenders. I want that right now actually.
Anywhere else that I get oysters, I get them steamed.
Probably my favorite seafood. Raw, steamed, smoked, fried or stewed. Love them all.
So, basically it’s everything but the oysters themselves that draws you in?
100% this. My preferred location is the Islamorada Fish Market in the Keys. With Gator Sauce and horseradish. Im sure you know the place if you have been to Key West. I usually get a grouper or mahi mahi sandwich as the actual meal.
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Super fresh ones right off the shell are actually delicious, and not slimy.
A pal of mine and I were in South Carolina and got some at a marina-side bar one fall afternoon where they were taking them straight off the boat and into the kitchen. I think we each ate more than 2 dozen, washed down with about a six pack of beer. One of my all-time greatest meals.
LOL no I can eat them straight and think they are good. Everything else just makes it better.
I lived on Summerland Key so the only time I visited Islamorada was while driving through either on the way to Miami or Tallahassee. Marathon is about as far north as I would go for food and that was rare.
I’ve never tried raw oysters on the shell, but imagine they’d be about as tasty as going down on the John Deere Harvester gangbang girl - at the end of her shift.
Sounds perfect, but hoping you two didn't have a car ride back to Iowa the next day - that would have required windows down.
I gave the grandson an oyster, Pap, how many times do i swallow, until it stays down. Enough said on this subject.
I broke down and ate some in Depoe Bay, OR, last October, and it was a struggle to eat them. Lightly breaded and pan fried. Great setting overlooking the ocean with whales off in the distance, and seals frolicking below the restaurant, but DAMN, those things were terrible. The only reason I kept going was because I'd paid for them and figured eventually I'd hit a tasty one.
Interesting reading my posts in this thread 2 years later. I have not changed my mind. Smoked, Rockefeller, or breaded and fried are pretty good. I did not enjoy raw oysters whatsoever.
At my previous job, had to go to New Orleans for 3 weeks to work on a project. Found some little mom and pop, hole in the wall place in a little strip mall with crawfish and oysters for cheap.
Had some old guy sitting in the corner just cleaning fresh oysters right as they were brought in.
Went there almost nightly and got 1 lb of crawfish and 2 dozen oysters and about 6 Abita beers (all paid for by the company credit card) and it was amazing (was walking distance back to my hotel).
I could shit through a screen door at 20 paces mind you, but the food I must say was worth it.
