Just looked at the grocery store ads for the week and my normal grocery
store is selling 16oz jars of shucked oysters for $11.99.

Yeah right....I don't think so. Homey don't play that.

This is where living at the beach comes in handy. Oysters do sound good and
I haven't had any in a while. Rather than grocery store, I'm going to drive
down to a nearby bay tomorrow (at low tide) and harvest about a dozen live
ones myself.

Commercial fishermen tong in the deep water beds, but the ones near shore
are available to anyone that's willing to go for them. That's me! :-D

I don't eat/swallow them raw. That's a waste of good seafood, imo. My
favorite way is to fry them whole in a tempura batter then add salty fries
and a good cole slaw on the side.

Gary