Do you chew oysters?

[Pakey]

I chew and swallow. I like them with just a little lemon juice-no cracker.

 

[jml06fsu]

Why not save a lot of time and money and just eat a cracker with lemon and hot sauce on it. It'd be the same taste wouldn't it?

That's how people eat them in the FL panhandle (or they use horseradish) and they're very cheap actually. Cheaper than something like wings, which are covered in sauce too! ;P Some of the best oysters in the country come from Apalachicola Bay in the panhandle.

The hot sauce thing is just my preference...I enjoy hot sauce on simple things like pizza and fries, but lemon juice is something we commonly put on seafood. The first time someone handed me one it was on a cracker, and I loved it, so that's just how I eat them now. The texture reminds me of sushi-grade tuna when I chew them raw.

OP next time you go to a seafood place just ask if you could try one! I know in FL a lot of seafood restaurants have bushels of them and I doubt they'd mind. When I was a server I would always get samples for guests (after getting a manager's approval of course)

 

[John VN]

Eaten fresh, handed grabbed right out of the water and raw, they are slick and slide right down whole so no worry about gagging. Chew them and you can get a little crunchy sand.

If you slobber cocktail sauce, lemon juice, hot sauce, horseradish, etc. on the oyster, you are not eating an oyster, you are eating a disguised oyster.

The oyster's taste will reflect the water's taste it has grown in. Believe me, there are sweet waters and foul waters.

 

[chiefmickeymouse]

If they are raw, I don't chew them. If they are fried or otherwise cooked, I chew them. Not sure why, just the way I've seen it done. I went to high school and college in Florida and at that time there were a lot of oyster bars around. You don't see them as much anymore, I guess too many people were getting sick!

 

[Talking Hands]

That's how people eat them in the FL panhandle (or they use horseradish) and they're very cheap actually. Cheaper than something like wings, which are covered in sauce too! ;P Some of the best oysters in the country come from Apalachicola Bay in the panhandle.

The hot sauce thing is just my preference...I enjoy hot sauce on simple things like pizza and fries, but lemon juice is something we commonly put on seafood. The first time someone handed me one it was on a cracker, and I loved it, so that's just how I eat them now. The texture reminds me of sushi-grade tuna when I chew them raw.

I love oysters especially the Chincoteague oysters from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Much better than Apalachicola oysters. Either way I eat them raw with hot sauce or horseradish. No lemon. Also will eat them fried and used to eat them stewed but can no longer due to a dairy allergy. Never tried a gumbo. Will have to try that.