Island Of Misfits

[Bubba]

Oh my. I weep snot for you, my brother. To have been cursed to be without appreciation of a fresh, icy oyster... yum, drool... Love 'em.

There's an old video somewhere of Himself walking through foot-deep snow to get to the water's edge, and walking in and disappearing beneath the dark water. <-- TINS.

I was wearing a wetsuit. <-- These things do NOT keep you dry. When you go in the water, it is the same as going in nekkid. The water soaks into the suit, and your bod "warms" it. Carrying my catch-gear: a burlap bag.

The locale was the Chesapeake Bay. When I got out a ways, I dove down (scuba) to the bottom. The visibility was Zerio. I'd feel around and find and oyster shell, and place it against my dive mask. Then I'd move my head backward, and that would give me a view as to whether the shell was a live oyster or not.

A funny bit happened on this, my coldest ever dive (with Herself and my two little kids in the car with the heater on).

I was only taking really large oysters, as the minimum size was 5". And you needed no license at all if you swam out and picked them up by hand (it was February). <-- TINS

When I got low on air, I headed back to shore and dragged my burlap bag fulla oysters with me... right into the path of a Fish Cop. He was looking at me like I was dragging a bag of blasting caps.

"You were really out there, swimming. I saw you." <-- It was a strange accusation.

"Um. Yup." My lips were totally numb.

So the Fish Cop starts reaching into my bag of oysters, and stops short, with a "What the hell?" look on his face.

"These are huge! Why did you work so hard to get these monsters? Most of them are more than seven inches long!"

Me: "Well, I couldn't measure them in total blindness, so I just made sure I met the five-inch minimum size."

Fish Cop: "My hat is off to you. Swimming in ice water, and taking only monsters. The minimum legal size is THREE inches!"

Back at home, one oyster had meat that was five inches long.

Eeewwwwwwww! Fry those up and kill the parasites!

Bubba

 

[Bubba]

I won't eat them at a fancy happy hour at a buck a piece at the Bristol Seafood joint. Choice of type, buck a piece.

Bubba

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I use to eat those 2/1.00 Morton chicken pot pies when I was a young apprentice.

 

[boo]

oysters are suicide for folks with liver issues...parasites will get you eating raw seafood...I'll do a california roll but no raw fish for this old man...

 

[RosterMan]

I use to dig oysters on the north shore would walk out at low tide and break them off the oyster bed. could dig a bag fairly quick 15mins.
Love em on the half raw.
Last longer

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Love raw oysters. We have some good ones up here. I only eat them in the months with a “R” in them.

 

[RosterMan]

Love raw oysters. We have some good ones up here. I only eat them in the months with a “R” in them.

Excellent for the Love Life
Im sure Big has eaten them all his life too

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Well his coffe girls like them…

 

[Hippie420]

You could lock me in a room full of oysters for a month, and you'd come back to a bunch of stinky oysters and a dead hippie.

 

[RosterMan]

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

I use to dig oysters on the north shore would walk out at low tide and break them off the oyster bed. could dig a bag fairly quick 15mins.
Love em on the half raw.
Last longer

We used to gather oysters while scuba diving or snorkeling in the sound and eat them raw on the bank, but last time there had apparently been a sewage spill nearby and it turned me inside out.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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[Hippie420]

I see T-Dub's in the house. Where ya been?

 

[Hippie420]

Good night friends & family. See you in the morning.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Good morning all!

A gorgeous clear day here starting at 59F and predicted to reach 82F. Lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are through the four-day triple digit heat wave..................

Alas, the restaurant that we went to for breakfast Thursday was closed due to the heat, so we had a delightful breakfast at nearby Gravy. As is usual with Gravy we ended up with enough in a take home box for another meal.

An empty calendar, so back to working on the book and keeping an eye out for interesting debauchery.

 

[WeedHopper]

Fk Oysters. Yuk
Tried them and me no likey.
Wonder what moron was the 1st to eat those nasty fkers.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Fk Oysters. Yuk
Tried them and me no likey.
Wonder what moron was the 1st to eat those nasty fkers.

I'm guessing a hungry one.

 

[user 60570]

Fk Oysters. Yuk
Tried them and me no likey.
Wonder what moron was the 1st to eat those nasty fkers.

aw man , be a sport and give them suckers another try , what do ya have to lose?

 

[Bugus_Monkey]

Are those Oysters or Clams?