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Fried, raw, baked, in soup, in stuffing. I like them anyway. Never made me sick that I can tell and I've eaten tens of thousands. I guess maybe I'm overdue for some GI illness, I'll keep on, just the same.

eat clams scallops raw also.

I like oysters fried the best. Never have had them raw, though. Best fried oysters I have ever had were at Rivers Inn Restaurant and Crab Deck, Gloucester Point, Virginia. That was 19 years ago, but I have had them a lot of other places and that meal still stands out. I have done them at home with lesser results, edible, but nowhere near as good. I can make a pretty fair oyster stew, though.

A seafood restaurant in Lexington serves a chilled oyster vodka shot. I assumed that it was a shot of chilled vodka with a raw oyster on the side.

Nope!

It was a raw oyster and cocktail sauce in the bottom of a glass with chilled vodka on top. It looked pretty damn disgusting when they delivered it to my table, but I had paid $5 for it, so I knocked it back.

*whew*

It was my first and last.

Yeah, gimme some fried oysters and a well-done ribeye. And don't forget the cocktail and A1 sauce. Wash it all down with light beer!

I get the Jeri’s brand there. They don’t carry them at the smaller HEB’s I’ve been in.

Ltppowell: I have enjoyed countless fresh "Oyster meals" on the beaches of Hood's Canal in Washington state!
I am a fried oyster and barbecued Oyster connoisseur, of great repute and long standing.
Just thinking about these delicacies makes my mouth water.
The VarmintWife and I owned a vacation condo on Hood's Canal for many years. Our beach was crammed with perfect Oysters and Dungeness Crabs were plentiful just off shore.
My "perfect meal" is a fresh caught Dungeness Crab Louie followed by well done freshly caught barbecued Oysters, and the aforementioned icey cold American bottled beer (M.G.D.!)!
You only live once - might as well get the most out of the journey.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

fuzzytail, now you're talkin'. I love 'em dipped in egg, or egg and beer, and dragged through some yellow cornmeal and fried as you described and served with good tartar sauce. OMG! That's a Gulf Coast feast fit for a king if their ever was one.

Some of my mother's family came from Germany and their port of entry into the country was right here in Calhoun County Texas on Matagorda Bay. The county is still full of my relatives and I have lived here most of my life. Some of my family were and are commercial fishermen. That family has been gathering oysters for 171 years. We eat oysters every way you can imagine. I love good clean raw oysters but you only want to get them when there hasn't been a lot of rain in good clean unpolluted bay waters. I've been eating them raw all my life and never gotten sick because I'm very careful. My dad taught me that. And if I buy oysters I want to know who got them and where he got them.

I also love them fried and we make our own tarter sauce from an old family recipe. It's easy. Get good mayonaise, I like Kraft. Helmans is good but for me it's too buttery tasting. Get some dill relish, and an onion. I have a food processor that makes the onion into almost a cream. For a pint jar of mayonaise I use half an onion and about 4 table spoons of dill relish. I have also added a teaspoon of mustard and a teaspoon of sugar, but I really prefer it plain. I use it for fish, oysters, and even just french fries or onion rings.

just a note of general agreement. fried, baked, grilled, steamed, microwaved oysters are all good.

raw ones are good too, but on some occasions can leave hep A markers in one's blood workup.

not that it hurts the liver all that much, but once the markers are there, they're there.

it also can come from dirty/affected well water, and various other sources.

dirty seafood from affected areas is a high probability likelihood.

Fry one lightly battered, set back in a clean half shell, add blue cheese and "buffalo" sauce! Oh baby.

Like Manila? Dohhhh!

many sources.

some areas have been closed to shellfish harvest on occasion.

but, shellfish ain't the only source. that's pretty much a military certainty.

our kroger often packages some really big shelled oysters in .5 and 1 lb. containers.

Contaminated oysters can give you hep a, bigger n Dallas! Once when my late father in law came down from Missouri to visit we went to Seadrift and got a bag of unopened oysters. We took them back to my dad's house and were drinking beer and opening oysters. My dad caught him eating one raw and told him we didn't know where those oysters came from and he probably shouldn't be eating them raw. But he was a hard headed ol' German and kept eating about every third one he opened. About a month after he went home my wife was talking to her mother on the phone and she said her dad wasn't feeling well and had gone to the doctor. The nex week they put him in the hospital with Hep. As I said above, I never eat them raw if I don't know who got them and where they came from. If questionable like that they get the piss fried out of them before I eat 'em.

Jose?

Just got back,....

Drove to Lexington and had fried oysters,...crabmeat stuffed mushrooms,...2 martinis,..and about half of my wife's strawberry margarita.

Fried Shrimp, oysters, alligator and catfish

Local Boy Scout troop has been holding a fried oyster and chicken salad supper annually at the Grange hall for as long as I can remember. Getting expensive ($25 per), but still worth it. When I was in my teens, the whole family would go, along with some friends. A buddy of my Dad, a big ex-college football player, and I would always challenge each other to see who could eat the most. Sure miss those times.

I was there (Ocracoke, not Cedar Key) in July, from the 21st to the 26th. Didn't get the oysters, but the crab cakes were very good, as well as the fish and shrimp (all grilled). Next time you're there, if you want a change from the seafood, try Eduardo's, a Mexican food truck right along the main drag.

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