[Leica] IMGS: Raw Oysters - Gerry

[Gerry Walden]

There are awesome clams, oysters and crabs from this area, lobsters too, but they can get a better price exporting them into mainland Europe. When I worked as a Health Inspector I issued many an export licence for them, and they were often exported live in large tanks of water on lorries.

One night I was given two live lobsters by one of the exporters, and I telephoned Pat and told her to boil a pan of water ready for me to come home at midnight. Neither of us could bear to boil them alive so I ended up driving back down to the river and releasing them.

Gerry


> On 11 Dec 2015, at 19:24, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> Funny enough, the best oysters (and I love them) I have ever had was in the UK this September—in the Loch Fynne restaurant by the shore of the lake of the same name in Scotland. They were expensive but worth every penny (or pound).
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> This thread makes me remember my days in graduate school at the University of Florida in the late 1980s. Raw oyster were quite popular in the student bars in town, and my cousin and I indulged freely. The thing is that Gainesville is about 80 miles from either coast, and the place is HOT, so I always wondered about the freshness of those oysters and the conditions in which they had been kept. We just made sure we drank enough and convinced ourselves that a sufficient alcohol intake would kill whatever bacteria were present. It is a miracle that we survived.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 11 Dec 2015, at 19:59, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> Would love one but wouldn’t fancy swallowing it.
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>> Gerry
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>>> On 11 Dec 2015, at 09:41, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Le 11 déc. 2015 à 10:25, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> a écrit :
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>>>> I live in a city of 240,000 which is a major seaport and you would find it hard to find a fish shop (I know just one) let alone an oyster.
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>>> A jeweler might be worth a try  ;-)
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>>> http://tinyurl.com/nmnyzc2
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>>> Amities
>>> Philippe
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>>> 
>>>> Gerry
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