Why do you suppose Maryland has never embraced them? They're not difficult to make and pretty much any seafood restaurant should be able to turn them out. Why don't they?
The only way to ruin an oyster is to cook it.
In my younger days I used to farm oysters.
I would never eat one after that.
None raw for me. A long time ago a friend and I went diving in St Georges creek and once we sat on the bottom and the silt cleared could harvest a bushel within an arms length. My friend once spat out his regulator and sucked an oyster from it's shell while on the bottom with a big grin... good times ! Not any more the oysters are all dead from disease.
They are coming back very strong and disease free in the creek and elsewhere. There is even a vigorous and successful oyster farming operation right next to the Ruddy Duck.None raw for me. A long time ago a friend and I went diving in St Georges creek and once we sat on the bottom and the silt cleared could harvest a bushel within an arms length. My friend once spat out his regulator and sucked an oyster from it's shell while on the bottom with a big grin... good times ! Not any more the oysters are all dead from disease.
They are coming back very strong and disease free in the creek and elsewhere. There is even a vigorous and successful oyster farming operation right next to the Ruddy Duck.
That would be awesome, as a young man my dad would take me diving for oysters each winter on the Choptank and Magothy..
How great it would be to walk again in grass along shores the of the bay and tributaries for softshells with a dipnet.
That's all been coming back in the last decade. We regularly have a lot of grass and weed in our cove off St. George's Creek now...and along with that large schools of minnows, crabs, etc. And when we have one of those really low tides, I can just walk out on the mud bottom and pick up oysters...takes only minutes to fill a bucket.
I can just walk out on the mud bottom and pick up oysters...takes only minutes to fill a bucket.
I just want to point out that you're eating something you plucked out of the mud.
Ever see what a crab eats?
Dead people who throw themselves off the TJ bridge?
Dead people who throw themselves off the TJ bridge?
Dead people who throw themselves off the TJ bridge?