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> "Monroe, of course..." > wrote:
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>>[ . . . ]
>>Ain't following the 'aint got no R' rule very well are ya?
>>The onliest oysters I ever see in the summer are canned.
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>>monroe(dont shoot no rabbits either)
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>
> Headin' up to the Oyster House with my two youngest daughters tonight. The
> older, who is breastfeeding, asked me if she could eat raw oysters. Warm
> water (Gulf of Mexico) oysters tend to be the most contaminated. OH tells
> me their oysters are from the North Atlantic, so I told her that, adding,
> if yer worried, order something cooked. I'll prolly have a couple of dozen,
> but I'm not breastfeeding!
>
> (make sure ya get all them 'grains of rice' off the rabbit innards!
>

"R" rule pretty much works for the Chesapeake Bay season here in
Maryland, not sure about Virginia or the Atlantic side of VA or MD.
Worked in a restaurant here and I believe our fresh oysters in summer
were coming from up north, seem to recall New Jersey...sure they come
from many other places as well, but not here, this time of year....I
suspect that "R" rule goes back to a time when most all the oysters were
coming from the prodigious hauls being taken from the Chesapeake at a
time when the blue crab was of no interest to anyone 'cept the oystermen
who needed something to eat once they'd sold all their oysters....

Arsters are still somewhat big business where I live, though there's not
one person in the state can make a living on them alone any more,
anyways the folks that harvest them, if they eat them at all, eat them
raw. Think some cattlemen have almost that sensibility about their
handiwork