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If you can't bear the thought of eating hot food on a day like today and you've got a craving for oysters on the half shell, you might want to think twice. According to the New York Times, 74 New Yorkers have gotten sick eating raw oysters originating from the Pacific Northwest:
Both the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Food and Drug Administration have warned people not to eat the oysters, which are infected with naturally occurring bacteria that are most prevalent in the summer, when water temperature rises.No deaths have been reported, but symptoms include "diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, fever and chills." Lovely. We'll just try to make do with East Coast oysters. Sigh.In recent months, the F.D.A. said, there has been “an unusual increase in bacterial illness associated with eating raw oysters’’ from waters of the lower Puget Sound in Washington. Washington State issued a recall of the oysters last week.
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I've never understood the attraction in eating any kind of raw meat, be it steak tartare or sushi. But slurping oysters is the most perplexing of all. When I eat, I like to savor the flavors and textures in my mouth. What's the point of eating something if it's going to sail through the mouth in a second without being chewed and tasted? Cooked oysters taste fine to me, thank you very much.
I know they say oysters should be safe year-round now, but I still wouldn't eat them in months with no R.
i second that, unless they are fried
someone show this to jessica coen!
http://www.jessicacoen.com/archives/2006/07/overanalysis_of.php
Brightliner you would be about as much fun as eating out with a vegatarian picky, picky. Good oysters have increadable flavor and you just dont slurp em down. Depening on what kind of oyster they all have very distinct flavors and texture ranges.
many people are allergic to red algae. red algae is the main-stage diet of east coast and west coast oysters. i used to be allergic to them when i was younger, but since allergies are in 7 year cycles, i can now eat with no problems.
Brightliner, that particular comment (more than any I've seen from you so far) is most indicative of your personality. At least some vegetarians remember or understand the appeal of raw meat and fish.
Wait...as I now recall, you're the non-adventurous eater who doesn't believe women's feet should be bigger than a size six. Yeah, you sound like quite a catch!
what do you all think about still eating raw east coast oysters? That post about lure fish bar yesterday made my mouth water, and I prefer bluepoint anyway.... eh, I guess I shouldn't risk it.
Still hung up on that, eh, Sasquatch? You're as predictable as the rabid anti-Critical Mass "kill the bikers" posters and the "hold my pencil Navy Seal-style" jokers. Never anything to add to the discussion, just desperately need to knock somebody, preferably under a new 'nym because you refuse to stand behind your posts with a static nym. "At least some vegetarians..." Ha. Talk about a useless anecdote. Most vegetarians and vegans wouldn't be caught dead eating meat and fish, raw or cooked. So your statement proves absolutely nothing. As for not slurping them down, a good many oyster "eaters" would disagree with chewing them.
What do you guys think about still ordering east coast oysters? The Lure Fish bar post yesterday made my mouth water, and I prefer long island oysters anyway... eh, I probably shouldn't risk it, right?
Wait, are allergies really on 7 year cycles? Fuzzy peaches, here I come...in about two years...
That is strange that they'd send 'em east, because there's been lots of news coverage here about not eating the shellfish because of contamination. On the bright side, I had oysters from Canada last week and they were fab - and didn't make me sick.
Do not feed the oyster under a cloud.
And don't fear the reaper.
Oh Brightliner, just because your penis size is inversely proportional to my foot size doesn't mean you have to be such a cranky-pants!
Nice try, Sasquatch. Oh, who am I kidding. That was a lousy try. I'd have to be incredibly insecure to fall for your "less than a man" goading. Just because you like weak-willed dates that you can dominate doesn't mean all men are like that.
I am a long time vegetarian, and I would eat oysters in a heartbeat if I ate meat. That is one of the very few things I miss and love.
Oysters are delicious.
God, brightliner, you truly are a miserable human being....
man. that "navy seal Style" comment kills me everytime I hear it. Wish I started it. and Oysters are good cause they taste like pussy. Kinda dirty, cold and pungent. You don't wanna eat them too much but you kinda yearn for them.
That's really rich. Rocknrope calling me miserable. You do know that your previous posts here are all available via the search engine. People can find all sorts of posts where you knock the outer boroughs using wretched jokes, where you jealously attack crime victims for getting attention supposedly only because they're beautiful white women, and where you even wrote, "Die, hipster, die, die, die! Freakin cooler-than-thou attitude makes me want to hurl." Nope, you're not a miserable SOB.
Hilarious...how much time did you spend furiously searching through all my past posts? You really are insecure. Now if I do the same search against your name, I find a helluva lot more obnoxious, superior-than-thou arrogant posts.
I find it amusing as well that the first post when you search my handle is one where you insult me for having a different opinion than you. Go date a woman with size three feet.
And a well-deserved "insult" it was. Or didn't you even notice your very own post there said you were trying to be snarky? And you didn't even succeed. You never could come up with a proper response when Jonah and I noted that any would-be terrorist could use a tiny hidden still or video camera available at any of the "spy stores" that sell surveillance equipment while amateur photographers and sightseers would be hassled just because they're not trying to hide their intentions. That wasn't a different opinion, that was idiocy. Okay, now I'm insulting you.
And the search only took about a minute. I'm sure I could have found a lot more damning posts if I really went to it. Anyway, you haven't done anything to prove you're not a miserable SOB. You just go around claiming others are more miserable. Maybe it's just an inferiority complex on your part, which is usually the case when someone goes around accusing others of being "cooler than thou" or "superior than thou" [sic].
Just because I don't respond to one of your many goading posts doesn't mean I don't have a "proper response", it means I have better things to do than go comment for comment with someone who constantly needs to feel the need to prove himself right, even if it means wasting time searching through someone else's past posts - if that doesn't scream pathetic, I don't know what does. I'm glad I wasted those minutes of your life.
Ok, I'm done...being the last word freak you are, I'm sure you'll respond again.
And yet it didn't seem to stop you from responding this time. So any time you win an argument, it's because I'm "goading," eh? Typical. Just like Sasquatch, if you can't win a debate with anything resembling facts, start screaming things like "you're only goading" or "you have a tiny wee-wee!" Even when all I did was ask for a logical response, which you still haven't provided and probably never will.
OYSTERS.
Ahem. If we can stop bickering and get back to the topic at hand, I would also like some opinions about how safe people feel the east coast oysters are.
Anyone?
Depends...the most wretched food poisoning I've ever endured was from the vegetarian fare at the Garden of Eden salad bar (23rd st), so it's all relative. Seriously, I thought I was going to die. The second prize goes to a tofu and mushroom dish that gave me a steady case of the runs for 3 days.
Given my record, they seem pretty safe! I guess it's all relative, especially in NYC. Or, luxury cruises for that matter.
I'd ask Brightliner to join me in slurping some oysters, but he seems to have a strict policy against associating with girls whose feet weren't bound at birth. Sorry you're offended by my size 9s, but I'm sure you also have some mighty unappealing attributes. ;)