BTW, is that $8 for... each oyster? You getting mob protection at that price?

Maybe OP means $8 for half dozen or something like that?

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Raw Oysters! Yum. That will put lead in your pencil.

That's fine as long as you have somebody to write to.

“Nearly 12,000 people a year in the UK are being poisoned by eating contaminated oysters, new figures show.

Scientists discovered that more than two-thirds of oysters on sale are infected with the highly contagious norovirus – which causes vomiting and diarrhoea – and estimate that nearly one in six food-related cases of the bug are caused by contaminated oysters, which are usually eaten raw or lightly cooked…”

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/art...00-Britons-year.html

You can't trust oysters. The other day I paid for 12 but only 8 of them worked.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Raw Oysters! Yum. That will put lead in your pencil.

That's fine as long as you have somebody to write to.

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Originally posted by slabsides45:
BTW, is that $8 for... each oyster? You getting mob protection at that price?

Maybe OP means $8 for half dozen or something like that?

$8 per dozen on Mondays. The Grand Marlin used to have it's own oyster beds in East Bay (part of the Pensacola Bay system) but the beds collapsed a few years ago from over fishing. Now they get'um from Louisiana. Oysters are mini-sewer plants but I still eat 'em. Now the weather is getting too hot and the oysters will soon start spawning.

Years ago, I was in New Orleans with a couple of buddies. We order a big tray of raw oysters and split it. We downed a lot of oyster that night. After we returned, I found out that both of them had to be treated for parasites. I didn't...and I still eat raw oysters. Life is full of risks. But you will never get out of the house if you are afraid of them.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by konata88:
Rey - planning to take the kayaks there this summer. Where are the oysters?

When younger, I used to go crabbing there. Dungeness and Rock. Those were the days.

We go to The Boat House. It's on Highway 1, pass the restaurant famous for the movie, The Birds. 1445 N Highway 1, immediately past the Candy & Kites store.

In searching for the place, I found another one that sounds promising and I'll check out next time I go there, Fisherman's Cove at 1850 Bay Flat Rd, Bodega Bay.

You guys could appreciate, I was at a friend/co-worker's memorial up at Stinson Beach this past weekend. Along with the a variety of food trays and kegs of Lagunitas, they also had about 50lbs of Miyagi oysters from Hog Island, complete with employee shucking, under a pop-up tent and their special migonnette sauce. I must've eaten two-dozen myself. Those oysters must've been in the water less than an hour before we started downing them, so briny and good.

In the past, we've had parties at Tomales Bay Oyster Co. Their grills are first come/first serve, you bring the picnic fixins and charcoal, go buy the various sizes from them and rent the knife.