Oysters !!

[MrGrumpy]

Well, our first and last time ! My wife and I had an oyster each at the weekend , 24hrs later we were fighting over the toilet ! Grim , only recovered now . Didn’t know you got Norovirus from shellfish but there ya go !

Ps I found them quite horrible anyway .

 

[Bonefish Blues]

In tempura batter with a soy-chilli-ginger dipping sauce please

 

[MontyVeda]

The last time I had oysters I ended up the same as you for a few days. I'm not going back despite quite liking them. No food is worth the risk of a few days of discomfort.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

24hrs later we were fighting over the toilet

Well at least you had 24hr mad passionate love making hours before revenge struck back.

 

[briantrumpet]

Yeah, I've eaten quite a lot (most often on the return trip on a Brittany Ferry with a nice Sancerre and good bread, on the sun deck), and am an expert oyster opener, but I know that those who have been got by Vibrio parahaemolyticus understandably would never touch them again.

 

[Mrs M]

Don’t fancy oysters at all but after reading about Michael Winners experience 😟 wouldn’t touch them at all

 

[The Crofted Crest]

Best oysters I have ever had were Scottish.

 

[Electric_Andy]

We went to an oyster restaurant last year because I'd never tried them. They were ok but not my favorite. The seawater inside was also not very appealing. We had 3 each; plain, soy and ginger, and some sort of spicy sauce. Very over rated imo

 

[MontyVeda]

Yeah, I've eaten quite a lot (most often on the return trip on a Brittany Ferry with a nice Sancerre and good bread, on the sun deck), and am an expert oyster opener, but I know that those who have been got by Vibrio parahaemolyticus understandably would never touch them again.

I remember a rather alarming stat regarding oysters and Vibrio Unpronouncablyticus (or maybe something else)... one in nine oysters were found to contain it. It's probably a huge over exaggeration but of the ten or so of us tucking into the oysters that night, it was only me who was unlucky.

 

[teeonethousand]

I had half a dozen oysters once..... and 1 didn't work 😂😂

 

[briantrumpet]

I remember a rather alarming stat regarding oysters and Vibrio Unpronouncablyticus (or maybe something else)... one in nine oysters were found to contain it. It's probably a huge over exaggeration but of the ten or so of us tucking into the oysters that night, it was only me who was unlucky.

I suspect it varies depending on the source (if not the sauce) and the time of year. I've only eaten ones from Brittany when there wasn't an R in the month. I'd not eat ones from the Exe ONO, especially now given the parlous state of sewage discharge into UK rivers.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Didn’t know you got Norovirus from shellfish but there ya go !

Indeed, shellfish is a high risk food, carries all sorts of nasties.
In Mediterranean countries cholera outbreaks due to shellfish consumption used to happen often.
I think nowadays there are more stringent food controls.

 

[oxoman]

One of those foods you love or hate, personally I prefer my food dead and cooked. Apart from steak tartare

 

[briantrumpet]

One of those foods you love or hate, personally I prefer my food dead and cooked. Apart from steak tartare

Now the only time I have had that, I did spend quite a lot of time on the great white telephone through to the next day. It was delicious though.

 

[Time Waster]

Only had oysters twice, the second because I forgot what the first was like. Ok but I prefer pickled cockles or moules. Picked cockles or even pickled mussels in a jar are my guilty pleasure. I hide a jar in the fridge occasionally and sneak a few out for a couple of days.

They've all never made me ill at all. Other more common foods do though often!