Raw Oysters: Love it or hate it?

Hellotonever

I love it personally. I always order two dozen raw oysters from the Wild Atlantic Way delivered to Leinster fresh. No bells or whistles, just shuck em, slap some lemon and its good to go.

Swear, its one of the hidden gems available to everyone in the country. Its cheap, nutritious and delicious. Try em out

Lovely.

Potential-Monke

I love when my food looks like a cross between a smokers phlegm and semen... Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. I did use to like getting some chinese/thai did with "Oyster" sauce, but I'm sure it tasted as close to oyster and Skips taste to actual prawns.

Cookie_Monster

They're awesome

Thelonious Monk

I love the ceremony of them all even though they're a bit gross, nice to share with someone if you've had a couple of drinks

Oink

I like them, but it doesn’t take long before I feel like I’ve drunk a pint of seawater. So I have to stop after a few.

Montage of Feck

Utterly disgusting

Thelonious Monk

like mussels they're a great source of protein from our own back yard. It's mad how these things aren't really popular here compared to other countries, we do produce a hell of a lot of these things organically too, rope mussels and oysters are one of the cleaner ways to produce protein, environmentally.

whisky_galore

Like swallowing a giant gob of cold snot.

BeerWolf

Swallow snot? No thanks.

Esel

Does anyone ever cook oysters?

Thelonious Monk

Esel wrote: »

Does anyone ever cook oysters?

Oyster fritters look nice but I've never had them

glaston

Oysters = sea snots!

Mad_maxx

never had them

atilladehun

Love them. I get mine from Achill Oysters, next day delivery.

ILoveYourVibes

to eat ...ew ..each to their own ..perhaps my palate is not as sophisticated as yours

To look at ..partic if there is a pearl ....beautiful

The chan chan man

Absolutely delicious on ice with some tabasco and lemon.

I’m not sure why they’re meant to be an aphrodisiac however. I got poisoned from them one day and the smell coming off my burps was worse than the already foul smell leaving my hole every 2 minutes... It lasted for days and I destroyed 2 pairs of jocks on a long trip home from the romantic weekend in Cork.. I still love them though.

Space Dog

Esel wrote: »

Does anyone ever cook oysters?

Um yes? Baked oysters are alright, deep-fried panko-crumbed oysters are the food of the Gods. Can't stomach them raw.

tabby aspreme

Wouldn't mind half a dozen now with a few pints , anyone know of a posh Shebeen selling them

Thelonious Monk

The farming of oysters and other shellfish is as sustainable as it gets and in many places actually restorative environmentally. It holds great promise for relieving pressure on land-based protein sources and is a great example for how to gain more food from the ocean.

EmmetSpiceland

I, personally, think that those of you describing it as “snot” are being incredibly generous.

It’s salty, slimy and watery. All that, coupled with the “delivery”, well, it’s basically cold jizz. Dress it up how you like but, unless you’re lashing lemon or Tabasco on there, you are, effectively, chugging spunk.

Never touch them, myself.

John_Rambo

I have an obsession with oysters and other shellfish. Visits to our coastal fish monger are a weekly treat, the kids eat crab claws and mussels like sweets.

Proper traditional Irish food.

jackboy

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I, personally, think that those of you describing it as “snot” are being incredibly generous.

It’s salty, slimy and watery. All that, coupled with the “delivery”, well, it’s basically cold jizz. Dress it up how you like but, unless you’re lashing lemon or Tabasco on there, you are, effectively, chugging spunk.

Never touch them, myself.

I think you have revealed far too much there😂.

Anyway, they are definitely a love or hate food. I love them plain and simple, no Tabasco required.

Carodh

Esel wrote: »

Does anyone ever cook oysters?

Bit of garlic breadcrumb on the oyster in the shell & pup under the grill. Absolutely gorgeous.

Carodh

We love oysters in our house. My 12 year old when 5/6 years old would gobble them down.

EmmetSpiceland

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I, personally, think that those of you describing it as “snot” are being incredibly generous.

It’s salty, slimy and watery. All that, coupled with the “delivery”, well, it’s basically cold jizz. Dress it up how you like but, unless you’re lashing lemon or Tabasco on there, you are, effectively, chugging spunk.

Never touch them, myself.

Why do you know what cold jizz tastes like?

Bobblehats

Filthy.

Degag

I've had them a few times. They are quite nice - have a very unique taste but have to override the gag reflex!

People saying they look like X or taste like Y need to open their minds a small bit. I mean, fine if you legitimately do not like the taste of them but there are loads of foods that are extremely common these days that when you look at where they come from you'd wonder how we came to consume them.

I guarantee most of these people eat prawns. Does a raw whole prawn look any more appetizing than an oyster?

Bobblehats

Fooking prawns...

EmmetSpiceland

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

Why do you know what cold jizz tastes like?

A rather “personal” question. Why should that matter? Let’s just say I may have come last in a competition, long ago at this stage.

Even still, there would have been the odd snowball, or accidental slootching, “after the fact”, along the way. All mine there though, and never straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.

Anyway, you won’t catch me in hurry to guzzle down buckets of either. No, thank you.

dasdog

Space Dog wrote: »

Um yes? Baked oysters are alright, deep-fried panko-crumbed oysters are the food of the Gods. Can't stomach them raw.

Also a nice addition to a BBQ with Tabasco sauce.

fonecrusher1

Ghastly looking things.

The only time oysters have appeared tempting to me is one episode of Diners, Drive-throughs and Dives where they had a breaded deep fried oyster sandwich. They look lovely and crispy.

Shakey_jake

Love em,

Paired with a nice stout or IPA and some Tabasco sauce!

Also love mussels and most other shellfish

I was in Prague 2 years ago and they where selling Waterford oysters

We should all eat these, its the real Irish food

Hellotonever

People here saying fresh nutrient packed oysters from sustainably farmed irish industry is disgusting but will gladly eat grinded kebab meat made from pigs assholes no bother.

fonecrusher1

Hellotonever wrote: »

People here saying fresh nutrient packed oysters from sustainably farmed irish industry is disgusting but will gladly eat grinded kebab meat made from pigs assholes no bother.

Careful getting down off that horse now.

OP is asking do people love or hate raw oysters, its not complicated and nothing to get your knickers in a twist over. They look absolutely disgusting presented raw in the shell so its not completely mad that some people may not want to eat them like that. Sustainably farmed or not.

whisky_galore

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Ghastly looking things.

The only time oysters have appeared tempting to me is one episode of Diners, Drive-throughs and Dives where they had a breaded deep fried oyster sandwich. They look lovely and crispy.

That I could get behind.

The oyster festival swallowing raw toff wankery, no thanks. It's like a public schoolboy dare.
Not to mention the dodginess of eating raw stuff, someone mentioned they got sick from them a few posts back.

John_Rambo

whisky_galore wrote: »

That I could get behind.

The oyster festival swallowing raw toff wankery, no thanks. It's like a public schoolboy dare.
Not to mention the dodginess of eating raw stuff, someone mentioned they got sick from them a few posts back.

Maybe it's like that where you're from. Perfectly natural food to eat where I'm from, they're always been sold in the local fish mongers and restaurants sell them all the time without fuss. They're an ancient Irish unprocessed, natural food.

Nothing better than a dozen Irish oysters with red wine vinegar and finely chopped shallots served with a glass of chilled Chablis.

B.A._Baracus

Hellotonever wrote: »

People here saying fresh nutrient packed oysters from sustainably farmed irish industry is disgusting but will gladly eat grinded kebab meat made from pigs assholes no bother.

Haha. Made me laugh. You're right too.
I've learned to pay no attention to what people say about themselves or "their class" anymore

Same guff with wine drinkers. Can start going on about nutty, fresh flavours of the wine and it must be at least 30 years old... In truth it cost 4.99 in Lidl and it's piss lol.

Potential-Monke

whisky_galore wrote: »

The oyster festival swallowing raw toff wankery, no thanks.

John_Rambo wrote: »

Nothing better than a dozen Irish oysters with red wine vinegar and finely chopped shallots served with a glass of chilled Chablis.

Sounds about right!

IAMAMORON

Love them.

But I hate opening them, i am terrified of sharp objects - for real. ( except my mind ,which is the sharpest object on the planet, for real )

Samsgirl

Allergic

Alun

Esel wrote: »

Does anyone ever cook oysters?

Oysters can be added to beef stews or beef and oyster pies. They pretty much dissolve in the cooking process and add a distinctive, but not very oyster like flavour.

Thelonious Monk

I love oyster sauce for stir fries etc, but I'm not even sure if there's any oyster in the sauce, probably just some weird processed extract or something

Love them with a pint of stout.

John_Rambo

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Sounds about right!

Glad you share my enthusiasm & good taste.

Cookie_Monster

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

They look absolutely disgusting presented raw in the shell

how do they look disgusting exactly?

Purgative

Love them.


Went to the Clarenbridge Oyster Festival a while back (Jack Charlton was the guest of honour). Glorious day, oysters and Beamish (they were sponsoring). Truly sublime.


Wow and now I really miss those days.

the beer revolu

Don't get the fuss really.
If you handed me a raw oyster, I eat it rather than waste it but I neither love or hate them.

Grilled oysters are lovely.

Graces7

Never saw the need.

When I was in Orkney they offered me " ebbmeat" is razor shell residents and here it was winkles I was offered ie periwinkles, but I desisted.

When we were little, we used to be sent gathering of winkles; they pulled them out with a pin to eat them; alive

Are oysters still alive wen eaten? Gross! As gross as dropping lobsters alive in boiling water. That is when they turn red ….

The whole sea food thing repels me. They say it has to be kept alive to stop it going off? I was in SV in Clifden once and a live lobster was there in a crate of water, claws taped up.

suicide_circus

Its just about the freshest protein you cam eat. Not much to them really.

the beer revolu

Graces7 wrote: »

Never saw the need.

When I was in Orkney they offered me " ebbmeat" is razor shell residents and here it was winkles I was offered ie periwinkles, but I desisted.

When we were little, we used to be sent gathering of winkles; they pulled them out with a pin to eat them; alive

Are oysters still alive wen eaten? Gross! As gross as dropping lobsters alive in boiling water. That is when they turn red ….

The whole sea food thing repels me. They say it has to be kept alive to stop it going off? I was in SV in Clifden once and a live lobster was there in a crate of water, claws taped up.

Yes, raw oysters are eaten alive.

Periwinkles are usually cooked before being eaten.