Oysters are a sure sign of high end decadence. But look back two hundred years and they were handed out as free bar snacks. So, what made them the luxury food they are today?
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I live on the shores in Connecticut. I find places around here, Rhode Island and Massachusetts when I visit those areas that have dollar oysters/happy hours. Pretty much caught not far from where I'm sitting. Freshest cold water sea water brine oyster out the shell with horseradish and vignette with lemon. I'll order an ice tray of 30.00$
oysters are as good as the sauces you have with them. change my mind
Just looking at this gives me mad thunder toilet clogging explosive diarrhea!!
but oysters are so cheap in everywhere i've bean , it may be the most affordable sea food .
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Every oyster is checked before shipping? Really? If that's the case, why some oysters came dead? You can ship an oyster from New York harbour to India in less than 24 hours. If they died that quickly, that means the oyster wasn't checked! And if they were checked, there wouldn't be so many food poisoning from oysters!
They are not luxury food here in New Zealand.
Come to Argentina and you will be surprised that it's the cheapest food here, that no one eats, as no culture to the seafood and fish. As an expat, I enjoy a lot of the abundant seafood options almost free of charge. Viva Argentina with a culture of meat & malbec 🙂
Hey, I live in New England (northernmost eastern coast of the U.S), and oysters are still pretty cheap here.
In Philippines oysters are cheap like 150 pesos or 3 dollars. 5kg of pure oysters woth shells
I had oysters the other day for the first time, had tobasco and ginger on them, I enjoyed them on the night but it wasn’t until the next day I had a craving for them!! I didn’t think I would like them but they really are something special
They look horrendous… but damn do they taste so good
It’s not expensive at all in my country 😅
Honestly growing up in New Zealand near the sea getting our own sea food had no idea they are expected
I like my oystars fresh and alive…
I ate half a dozen Loch Fyne oysters last weekend. 2 straight-up, 1 with a wasabi+cucumber+mirin seasoning, 1 with red wine vinegar+ shallots, and 2 with Tabasco mixed with a tiny bit of agave nectar of all things.
They were all fantastic. But I have to say that the tobasco one was my favourite. It had everything- the lovely saltiness and amazing flavour of the oyster, paired with heat and sourness from the tobasco, and a very subtle sweetness from the added agave nectar.
Loch Fyne and other Atlantic oysters (and ones from the North Sea, and i suppose it's technically the Hebridean sea with the Loch Fyne oysters) taste different from one's I've had in the US, even on the east coast. They taste sweeter in the US, and a LOT sweeter on the West Coast.
One is not better than the other, they're just different, and all so good in their own ways.
Here in Veracruz you can still get ‘em for cheap
That background ticking and clanking throughout this whole video is very annoying
Kidding aside we're not eating 2023 oysters but a 2021 🦪 🦪🦪 2023 will be serve in 2025 lol
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Having access to that everyday here, my first thought was "They're expensive?" They're quite cheap here in Ph
I often wonder the same thing too. Seafood and lamb shouldn’t be pricey but it is compared to chicken.
Never eat oysters around someone of the opposite sex. It might be construed as romantic due to its aphrodisiac nature.
We can pick them for free from the beach….
I've tried to like them – I've been to fancy establishments that serve them. And they are always vile. I can live without them.
It is cheap in the Korea.
Oysters look like congealing snot! You can have them!
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when I was a kid we go to the beach annually and the adults roast oysters while theyre still in there shells and my couisn warns me I dont have the stomach for it dont eat it I ate it and its not that good even today as an adult it isnt good food for me.
there not expensive, there just served expensive in restaurants for some reason i dont understand, probably people think it's aphrodisiac and restos try to sell them to customers who are curious if it really is.
It's endemic from many places in Mexico. In my hometown (south of Veracruz), fishermen often sell you a full bucket for about $10 dollars!
Funny how this is a luxury food in a first world country while this is just a free food somewhere around a third world country.
9 day shelf life??? U forgot a zero…. 90 days
Wow
Me wondering why a creature that tastes like sea water is a luxury food :
I used to eat them for free at the beach in the coast of Venezuela… Those where the times!
No problem, thanks to politicians making child labor more feasible in 2023, we may soon see the price of oysters drop once again. 🤗