On Dec 15, 10:00*am, Gary > wrote:
> 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

Do you need to shuck them on the beach and leave the shells? We have
to do that here, altho I won't eat them myself- they look too much
like little aliens to me!