When the Cows Come Home

[Harv]

<font color=blue>it's some fine eating.</font color=blue>

Bird, most of the folks who attended the same roundup/barbecue that I did were literally fighting over them, so I have to believe you.

Personally, I think I just have a psychological problem with the whole idea. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

Oysters should have shells. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>just have a psychological problem with the whole idea</font color=blue>

Yep, I think we all have that with certain things. I once talked my wife into trying a raw oyster, in a very nice seafood restaurant. She put it in her mouth, then sat there heaving and gagging, and scared me that she was about to seriously embarrass us in a fancy restaurant. She finally swallowed, and she ain't touched an oyster since./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif And while I've eaten many oysters, I actually had more of a psychological aversion to them than I did to the mountain oysters (and I still haven't tried any of those French snails)./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[ERNIEB]

Here during Fiesta week, they have an event called "A night in Old San Antonio". Music, food booths, and thousands of intoxicated people. The delicacies you are talking about are sold as "calf fries". I understand that a number of them are bought and consumed by people who have no idea what they are eating/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Regarding the ones that come in a shell. I once saw a sign in a restaurant that read "Brave was the man who ate the first oyster" /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie

 

[Bird]

Yep, Ernie, I don't know why some restaurants list them as "mountain oysters" and some as "calf fries" but I've seen both names on menus lots of places. And I don't know whether the first man to eat an oyster was brave or whether he was starving./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe the snails I tried were just badly prepared, but they tasted like the bottom of a pond sauteed in garlic butter. Sound apetizing?

<font color=green> MossRoad </font color=green>

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>tasted like the bottom of a pond</font color=blue>

I haven't tried that yet. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[MossRoad]

I should have said tasted like the bottom of a pond smells. Now that, I'm pretty sure, you have smelled in you life? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

<font color=green> MossRoad </font color=green>