Who was the first to eat a raw oyster?

[cstreit]

I mean - if you really look at them.

...must have been someone starving. I doubt they brought vinegar or coctail sauce to the beach...

[pwd72s]

The bravest man in the world was first to eat an oyster. But then, starvation brings on bravery?

[cabmandone]

The same person who invented the cracker, butter and hot sauce.

[2.7RS]

I don't know but when I look at crabs and lobsters......

Rather go with anything between 2 shelves

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by cabmando

The same person who invented the cracker, butter and hot sauce.

Ooofff - that person needs to get better oysters!

IDK who figured they should crack open "rocks" and slurp away, but when I'm in meetings in DC we break out early to hit happy hour at the Old Ebbitt. Smaller and colder-water is more to my taste. I might be just a little too precious for the big southern bowls-of-snot. (glarph)

At least you can eat oysters as they are. What about olives? Like cashews (but thankfully not toxic) they're impossible to eat as they hang on the tree. You have to ferment/age them and do lots of other things to make, admittedly, some pretty tasty eats.

[svandamme]

well pretty sure somebody observed something like a starfish or an otter opening up the oyster shell to eat it.. and figured the rumbling of his empty belly could be resolved by doing the same.

[berettafan]

mmm....arsters! love me some arsters!!!!

had my first maybe 4 years ago or so. roasted on half shell over a grill with butter, hot sauce, bacon, etc. at this point i'll take them raw every time. maybe a touch of cocktail sauce---like literally just a dab. sooooooo good!!!!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

The bravest man in the world was first to eat an oyster. But then, starvation brings on bravery?

No doubt when yer really hungry, almost anything sounds good.

I would suspect someone first put them next to a fire and saw them open up when the cooked and ate them. Then later on a rainy day or when there was no way to make fire, hunger drove them to try them raw.

One of my buddies was a Army Ranger. He said they sent teams of two men out in the forest for a week to hide and evade and if caught, they failed. No fires because that is just a beacon for the searchers. That means everything is eaten raw. He ate a lot of birds raw. He was the only man I ever met that refused to eat chicken in any form.

He said at one point he and his teammate turned over a rotten log and the both were snarfing down the cockroaches, and grubs and ants as fast as they could grab them with no hesitation. When you are 5 days in with no food, and hiking and working hard to stay alive, anything is worth eating.

I am real happy that I have never been that hungry.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

It was one of the gods who gave some of their food to man.

[Scott Douglas]

I can handle the shrimp, but not the oysters.

[vash]

those shrimp cooked?

but I bet dollar to donuts one of our native tribes ate the first oyster. and they didn't have cocktail or tabasco back then..

I love them!!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Shrimp are butter poached and I pull them out at rare/medium rare (still translucent if you cut through) but cook all the way through sitting and cooling. Very tender and extra tasty this way.

[masraum]

I've eaten <5 raw oysters. I generally require a shot of something per raw oyster which means that eating a dozen oysters is not recommended.

I'm happy to eat Oysters Rockerfeller or Bienville. Baked, broiled, fried, ok. Raw, NOPE.

[look 171]

Oh man, raw oyster is just disgusting. Taste like sea water.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by masraum

I've eaten <5 raw oysters. I generally require a shot of something per raw oyster which means that eating a dozen oysters is not recommended.

I see The Woodlands Pappadeaux does not have oysters.

https://files.pappadeaux.com/images/dyn/menus/menu_2618.pdf

I can eat a dozen raw with beer no problem. Hove done that 10 or more times. I like them but don't seek them out.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by look 171

Oh man, raw oyster is just disgusting. Taste like sea water.

hence the 1 shot per oyster rule...

[RANDY P]

Actually never eaten a raw oyster but have eaten a few raw clams :P

rjp

[drcoastline]

I could live off raw oysters and clams the bigger the better, sauted softshells and a few bowls of Ikura and Uni.

[jcommin]

I love to eat fish and shell fish. I enjoy eating oysters: a drop of Tabasco, squirt of lemon, horseradish or with just Mignonette sauce.

That is me in 2008 eating oysters of the beach in Port Elizabeth South Africa. The was a guy looking for oysters for his dinner and shucked a few for me.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Love em'

Just got back from Hilton Head. Ate bunches of seafood, but the local raw oysters were a bit anemic. The extragavant oyster there was from the James River in Virginia, which is where I live, so it was nothing special. Why go to HHI to get oysters from my backyard? I want oysters from further north. Way north! The brinier, the better.

Is that a thing? -to desire oysters from further north relative to wherever you are?

I'm Ron
And it's an R month.
Oysters coming my way soon.