Tasty bivalves.

[apbremer]

Oyster bar in Dulwich Village. Yum Yum.

[DulwichFox]

Heeeave. yuk..

[Sue]

Agree with Foxy.

They're vile. I can't understand what anybody sees in them. I'd rather have a tablespoon of Cod Liver Oil or a mouthful of sea water.

I've tried several times in the hope of growing to like them, most recently at Whitstable, but am never intending to try again :))

ETA: Is that grammatical?

[Seabag]

Where is this heavenly bivalve Mecca?

[Louisa]

What's a bivalve when it's at home?

Louisa.

[Sue]

bivalve

ˈbʌɪvalv/

noun

noun: bivalve; plural noun: bivalves

1.

an aquatic mollusc which has a compressed body enclosed within a hinged shell, such as oysters, mussels, and scallops.

adjective

adjective: bivalve; adjective: bivalved

1.

(of a mollusc or other aquatic invertebrate) having a hinged double shell.

2.

Botany

having two valves.

[edcam]

Love oysters!

[Louisa]

Not keen. Went to Galway many years ago and a pub in salt hill sold them with Guinness and soda bread. The black stuff was spot on but the other things tasted like slime mixed with sand and salt.

Louisa.

[DulwichFox]

Oysters used to be food for the poor.... They were Cheap.. You could hardly give them away..

The 'Better Off' would not touch them with a barge pole..

Now Coffin Bay King Oysters (Australia) cost $100 each.. They are now the food of the rich..

Some people will eat anything as long as it is expensive enough to make them feel exclusive.

DulwichFox.

[Louisa]

Absolutely agree foxy. That's always been my gripe.

Louisa.

[KidKruger]

...like ?6 hot dogs and ?8 burgers down Northcross Rd ?

[Seabag]

Moron Monday alert !

[BrandNewGuy]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Oysters used to be food for the poor.... They were

> Cheap.. You could hardly give them away..

>

> The 'Better Off' would not touch them with a

> barge pole..

>

> Now Coffin Bay King Oysters (Australia) cost

> $100 each.. They are now the food of the rich..

>

>

> Some people will eat anything as long as it is

> expensive enough to make them feel exclusive.

>

> DulwichFox.

West Mersea, the Company Shed. Nine quid for a dozen native oysters. And they're fresher than anything you'll find in London. With the advantage that you don't need to be rich to buy them ;-)

[Seabag]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Oysters used to be food for the poor.... They

> were

> > Cheap.. You could hardly give them away..

> >

> > The 'Better Off' would not touch them with a

> > barge pole..

> >

> > Now Coffin Bay King Oysters (Australia) cost

> > $100 each.. They are now the food of the rich..

>

> >

> >

> > Some people will eat anything as long as it

> is

> > expensive enough to make them feel exclusive.

> >

> > DulwichFox.

>

> West Mersea, the Company Shed. Nine quid for a

> dozen native oysters. And they're fresher than

> anything you'll find in London. With the advantage

> that you don't need to be rich to buy them ;-)

And why let the facts get in the way

French oysters (little brown natives from Brittany) about 40 p each from Wing Yip when I was there a while back

[Jeremy]

I think the place in borough market does 6 for ?5 (if you don't mind eating them standing there in the market). Hardly "the food of the rich" or "exclusive"!

[Louisa]

Who cares how much they cost. They're a pointless food article regardless. No flavour or taste, just an excuse for people to pontificate the imagined exclusivity of the process in which you consume these things.

Louisa.

[Jeremy]

The frozen ones from the chinese supermarket are cheap, and good for making tempura oysters, or steak & oyster pie, or stir-fried with chilli and ginger..

[Jeremy]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Who cares how much they cost.

But you just said "Absolutely agree foxy", in response to DF's claim that people eat them just because they're expensive!

[Louisa]

Jez exactly! It's an imagined branding exercise in which people want to believe that certain food types are more exclusive than others (whether they are in fact or not!). I've seen people buy branded products in supermarkets for much the same reason, despite their dubious claim to being any different to equally non-branded similar products.

Louisa.

[Jeremy]

Must.. not... respond...

[Earl Aelfheah]

I love oysters, but I love most shell fish, including cockles and mussels etc. It's nothing to do with branding, or some imagined 'exclusivity'. I just like them.

[Louisa]

But rah what is there to love about them? You neck it after squeezing lemon and maybe tabasco on it, and that's that.

Louisa.

[Earl Aelfheah]

They have a delicacy and freshness about them. There probably is something about the ritual of it as well and associations with being by the sea.

[Earl Aelfheah]

...Anyway, where / what is this new oyster place?

[Seabag]

And what colour is smoked haddock for the record?