[rollei_list] Re: Completetly Off-Topic: Food

  • From: "Allan Derickson" <alland435@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:00:20 -0800

As a proud Far Lefty I will concede crabs but not oysters to the Wacko
Righty coast. Yes, Chesapeake blue crabs are better than Dungeness but as to
anything better than our native Olympia oysters: you're crazy.

Allan in Olympia, Washington State, USA

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> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rollei_list-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc James Small
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 10:45 AM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; pati Timmermann; ian Small;
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> Subject: [rollei_list] Completetly Off-Topic: Food
> 
> I just finished off a half-dozen (well, eight, if the truth be told)
> Chincateague oysters.  These guys are Atlantic Ocean oysters and are
> saltier and more pungent than are the Chesapeake Bay oysters.  You
> folks on the Far Left Coast just die from the horror of realizing that
> you have nothing decent out there to eat other than artichokes, which
> we can grow locally.  Atlantic oysters are small and really ugly and
> are hard to open -- I always end up cutting myself with my oyster knife
> at least once -- but they are so tasty that the effort is certainly
> worth the result.  Gulf of Mexico oysters are turgid and muddy, and
> Blue Points are rather pallid in taste.  These Chincateague oysters
> simply make a fine lunch for a hungry fellow.  Of course,  my wife, the
> gormand Pamela, walks away in disgust as I start cracking the shells
> open.  I've only had European oysters once and they were quite tasty
> but, in the end, give me a bucket of Atlantic oysters and I will spend
> the afternoon making a wreck of my hands and then feeling so happy that
> I will crawl into the nearest closet with a Mag-Lite flashlight and
> will flip that around to keep myself amused until I fall asleep.
> 
> Damn.  I do love those Chincateague oysters.  Grand eating, they are.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
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