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Good Lord I love this time of year. Fall is in the air, and you can’t throw a cat without hitting an oyster roast. $18, all you can eat - little place down the street from me was glad I finally got up and left. Don’t ask me to move off the couch the rest of the day.
 
Posts: 2679 | Location: The Low Country | Registered: October 21, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Where is this low country you speak of?
 
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Charleston, SC?






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Charleston, SC?


Technically Mt. Pleasant, which is right across the bridge from Charleston. If you’re familiar with the area, I’m a 5-7 minute walk from Shem Creek here in Mt. P. It doesn’t get much better.
 
Posts: 2679 | Location: The Low Country | Registered: October 21, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Sounds great! Just don't believe that old story about oysters being good for your sex life. Ate three dozen one evening and only nine of them worked. Cool




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Posts: 3639 | Location: Morganton, NC | Registered: December 31, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Good Lord I love this time of year. Fall is in the air, and you can’t throw a cat without hitting an oyster roast. $18, all you can eat - little place down the street from me was glad I finally got up and left. Don’t ask me to move off the couch the rest of the day.

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I envy you. The seafood industry in particular, the oyster crop, is non existent. Several restaurants have closed because they cannot get Gulf Oysters. The opening of the Bonne Carre Spillway diverted all the fresh water into the Mississippi Sound for months decimating the entire crop for this year. Our beaches just reopened because the fresh water promoted algae growth which kept people out of the water all summer.

I love oysters, just cannot get them fresh. Made me hungry just reading your post from the land of Pat Conroy.
 
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Yummmm....oysters. I love them any way I can get them but I'm partial to them grilled in the shell. Add a little hot sauce and I'm in heaven.

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Posts: 9791 | Location: The right side of Washington State | Registered: September 14, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Why would you throw a cat???






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Why would you throw a cat???
The traditional expression is "not enough room to swing a cat," meaning that you are in a small cramped space.

It really does not apply, the way that it was used in the original post.



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Posts: 31699 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Good Lord I love this time of year. Fall is in the air, and you can’t throw a cat without hitting an oyster roast. $18, all you can eat - little place down the street from me was glad I finally got up and left. Don’t ask me to move off the couch the rest of the day.

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I envy you. The seafood industry in particular, the oyster crop, is non existent. Several restaurants have closed because they cannot get Gulf Oysters. The opening of the Bonne Carre Spillway diverted all the fresh water into the Mississippi Sound for months decimating the entire crop for this year. Our beaches just reopened because the fresh water promoted algae growth which kept people out of the water all summer.

I love oysters, just cannot get them fresh. Made me hungry just reading your post from the land of Pat Conroy.


That's really sad to hear. I've been wondering why I don't see any "Appalachacola Oysters" anywhere in South Florida as they're my favorite.

I love raw or fried oysters and can eat a ton of them. When I was in my late teens, early 20's my dad and I would buy a whole bushel of them, a large onion sack full of them for $38......we'd eat the hell out of them for 3 days like we were going to burst.....ohhhh the good old days...….

I feel for the OP, but wish I was him as that sounded like a royal feast.
 
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I was once into oysters. I had a bad experience in Vegas due to a bad shucker. Mouth full of grit and shells put me off.
 
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As I understand it, the "low country" of SC is all the coastal counties (with the possible exclusion of Horry county). Beaufort and Jasper counties are definitely low country (think of the geography described in "The Prince of Tides"). Many adjacent counties just inland of the coast are included.

This is the region of SC which grew rice, indigo and cotton in the antebellum days.


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Shem creek bar & Grill or Reds Ice House ?


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Good to hear they are available now.
I am headed that way (Savannah) in the morning.
I needs me some oysters!
 
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Good Lord I love this time of year. Fall is in the air, and you can’t throw a cat without hitting an oyster roast. $18, all you can eat - little place down the street from me was glad I finally got up and left. Don’t ask me to move off the couch the rest of the day.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I envy you. The seafood industry in particular, the oyster crop, is non existent. Several restaurants have closed because they cannot get Gulf Oysters. The opening of the Bonne Carre Spillway diverted all the fresh water into the Mississippi Sound for months decimating the entire crop for this year. Our beaches just reopened because the fresh water promoted algae growth which kept people out of the water all summer.

I love oysters, just cannot get them fresh. Made me hungry just reading your post from the land of Pat Conroy.


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Posts: 6321 | Location: New Orleans...outside the levees, fishing in the Rigolets | Registered: October 11, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Oysters are great, Hell any seafood this time of year is great if it's fresh.
Clambake today at 3pm at the local brewery before the Browns game. No, I'm not a Browns fan.
Looking forward to fresh seafood and good beer.


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Years ago, we were in New Orleans. Went to an oyster bar and ordered a giant platter of oysters for 3 guys. Polished it off and returned home. Found out the other 2 guys gotten parasites. I still eat oysters but not like before.
 
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Years ago saw a study that pointed out the three bad things you can get from eating raw oysters.... they had done a study and found out that if you drank hard liquor straight while eating the oysters you could not get two of those.... I always do a couple shots of tequila when I east them raw.


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I used to really like raw oysters, I probably still would, but I stopped eating them raw when my wife (who also liked them) pointed out the very real possibility of hepatitis.



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Posts: 31699 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I used to really like raw oysters, I probably still would, but I stopped eating them raw when my wife (who also liked them) pointed out the very real possibility of hepatitis.


You have just as high a chance of getting hepatitis eating a salad or anything else uncooked from a restaurant...….
 
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