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“We don’t ever run out”
“Are y’all gonna have oysters tonight?”
“Oh yeah, we don’t ever run out.”
“(laughs) Oh great. The Saints game is tonight, and I just wanted to make sure you’d be shucking.”
“Yeah, we’re gonna be crowded tonight.”
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Oyster Day 2011 – Event Info
Oyster Day is tomorrow! The fourth annual Oyster Day celebration will be held at Cooter Brown’s Tavern from 7PM until the last oyster be shucked!
Daniel will be arriving at 5pm to secure table space. Look for him in the neon green shirt that reads “Oy Day”!
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Oyster Fact – 2
Eating half a dozen oysters can supply the recommended daily allowance of iron, copper, iodine, magnesium, calcium, zinc, manganese and phosphorus. Eating three dozen can supply a week’s worth of the above.
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Hotel Lobby Oysters
A short-short by Haruki Murakami about oysters from How to Japonese:
Hotel Lobby Oysters
At the time I was sitting on the hotel lobby sofa and vaguely thinking about oysters. Not lemon soufflé, not pencil sharpeners – oysters. I don’t know why. I just suddenly realized that I was thinking about oysters.
The oysters I was thinking about on the hotel lobby sofa were different from oysters thought about anywhere else. They were shaped differently, they smelled differently, and their color was different, too. They weren’t oysters harvested in some cove. They were pure oysters harvested in a hotel lobby.
After thinking about oysters for a while, I went to the sink to wash my face, then retied my tie and returned to the sofa. When I got back, the oysters had already disappeared from inside my head. Again, I don’t know why. Maybe it was because I washed my faced or because I retied my tie. Or maybe the hotel oyster season is extremely short.
When the girl came 17 minutes after our appointed time, I told her about the hotel lobby oysters. The image was so distinct I felt like I had to tell someone about them.
“You want to eat oysters?” she asked.
“No, these oysters, they were purely oysters as a concept, unrelated to my appetite,” I explained. “The oysters came into being as the very essence of oys—“
“But you do want to eat some, right?” she said.
When she mentioned it and I settled down to think about it, I certainly had developed an incredible desire to eat oysters. We went to the hotel restaurant and ate 25 oysters while drinking wine. Sometimes I think my appetite originates from a really strange place.
How to Shuck an Oyster
At oysterday.com, we thought about creating a video to demonstrate how to best shuck an oyster, but we think this video from the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board is better than we could do.
So, enjoy!
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Oyster Quotes – Anne Sexton
and let me take note—
there was a death,
the death of childhod
there at the Union Oyster House
for I was fifteen
and eating oysters
and the child was defeated.
The woman won.
—Anne Sexton, from “The Death of the Fathers”
20 DAYS
Only 20 days until Oyster Day 2011!
For those interested, festivities will begin at 7pm at Cooter Brown’s and will continue until we are oystered out.
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Oysters on the Half Shell
Ingredients: one dozen cold oysters in their shells
Instructions: shuck the oysters and discard the half shell to which the oysters are not attached. Detach the attached oysters from remaining half shell. Serve chilled on the remaining half shell.
Optional: you may choose to accompany your oysters with cocktail sauce, tartar sauce, lemon, Tabasco*, horseradish or crackers.
*We at Oysterday.com only use Tabasco brand hot sauce. If your local grocer does not carry Tabasco, we recommend ordering a bottle from the Internet and demanding that your local grocer begin carrying it.
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Good & Good For You
One Dozen Oysters:
114 calories
4 grams of fat (2 grams saturated fat)
6 grams of protein
6 grams of carbs
62% of your daily recommended iron
10% of your daily recommended vitamin C
8% of your daily recommended calcium
caveat: 14% of daily sodium and 30% of daily cholesterol
Source: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/4189/2
To that, we say indulge (frequently), take your Lipitor, and forsake your daily vitamin!*
*We at Oysterday.com are not doctors (or frankly anything but Oyster enthusiasts), so always consult your doctor for questions or guidance on medical problems and conditions.
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Oyster Quotes – Ernest Hemingway
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
- A Moveable Feast
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Did you know? Continued
So, how are there two oyster days (Oyster Day and National Oyster Day)?
We at oysterday.com suspect it’s because of US Congress. The Democrats and Republicans were unable to agree on the same date, so they wasted our time and created two oyster days. Shockingly, neither party had the sense to choose a day in a month that has an “R” in it.
Maybe we’re wrong. What’s your theory? Maybe it’s an East Coast-West Coast Thing?*
*By the way, what’s with the East Coast-West Coast oyster controversy? The Gulf Coast has the best oysters (as determined by the editors of oysterday.com), but we suppose they are happy to keep their juicy bivalves a secret.
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Did you know?
Did you know that Oyster Day is May 5th and National Oyster Day is August 5th?
We at Oysterday.com think this is ridiculous. How can there be two oyster days and neither is in a month with an “R”? “Oy,” we say, as we suspect that Kansas City-based (and therefore seafood ignorant) Hallmark is behind this in their attempt to sell cards.
At Oysterday.com, we believe that every day should be oyster day, but since this is not (overly) practical (because of the “R” problem), we observe Oyster Day on September 1st (the first day of the first of eight consecutive months with an “R”). It’s really not too hard to pick a day in a month that has an “R”, and we’ve done it!
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Oyster Don’ts – Don Draper
Don’t eat too many oysters, and don’t mess with Don Draper.
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Oyster Quotes – Jonathan Swift
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
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