Who Was The First Person To Eat An Oyster?

[Ed Normile]

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Now who was the first person who looked at one of these and said, " I gotta stick that in my mouth and eat it ! " Man it not only looks gross, but they eat them raw! I tried one once and I found them disgusting, cold, slimey and foul tasting. I was told that you could put them on a cracker and use either a hot sauce or some lemon juice and do not chew them, swallow them whole... I would assume one could eat a dog turd with the same methods, but why? Was the first person to eat this dying of hunger and sated his appetite thus saving his life and said to himself, at least I am alive, or was it some deranged mentally ill person who after ingesting them had a moment of lucidity and realized he had just debased not only his tastebuds but his very being by ingesting such a foul offering, this realization driving him deeper into the realm of insanity, down to the level where inspiration is born, and not wanting to be alone in his shame invented all the reasons to eat them, such as they are an aphrodisiac, yea that will get all the men to eat them, especially the old guys and the foolish young ones, the hapless and the hopeless as I like to call them. Then of course there will be the women who eat them as they want to belong in the boy club. Yup the scam is on and the suckers are buying in.

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[Lil'Monster]

i have no idea i guess he was hungry lol hahaha

[Mary Magdalene]

oysters are yummy!! Love it with lemon or oyster Kilpatrick- thats with bacon and Worcestershire sauce
now im craving oysters!

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[MissScripture]

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oysters are yummy!! Love it with lemon or oyster Kilpatrick- thats with bacon and Worcestershire sauce
now im craving oysters!

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Why ruin the bacon???

[MIKolbe]

oysters are great.

you are all haters.

[Groo the Wanderer]

snot in a shell. yeah...great..yum....

[MIKolbe]

whatever, losers.

more for me.

[Laudate_Dominum]

there are worse things (trust me). Anyway, I'm with kolbe.

[Mary Magdalene]

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Why ruin the bacon???
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The osyters really bring out the bacony taste lol you should try it!

[MIKolbe]

she is very wise.

[CatherineM]

"He was a bold man that first did eat an oyster," wrote Jonathan Swift in 1738.

[Laudate_Dominum]

edit: octuple post

Edited May 8, 2011 by Laudate_Dominum

[MIKolbe]

i prefer with lemon and tapatio and straight horseradish.

[Mary Magdalene]

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i prefer with lemon and tapatio and straight horseradish.
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Yummy!!

[faithcecelia]

They used to be a really common food for the poor in the Uk at least, until relatively recently (Victorian times I think) going right back for hundreds and hundreds of years.

[Laudate_Dominum]

Oysters are neat imo. They say that cuz of zinc and other stuff oysters are good for men's health. Maybe teh aphrodisiac claims are true.

[xSilverPhinx]

Well when there are people eating spiders, scorpions, roaches, beetles and bug larvae, a cooked oyster doesn't look so bad...

[Lil Red]

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Well when there are people eating spiders, scorpions, roaches, beetles and bug larvae, a cooked oyster doesn't look so bad...
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[xSilverPhinx]

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China. They've got to feed all those people somehow...

[Amppax]

Personally, i prefer breathing to the taste of oysters....