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[BigAl01]

This one cracked me up.  A guy takes a girl out on a date for drinks and she starts ordering oysters, a dozen at a time, four...!  Nobody eats that many oysters in one sitting!  When my wife Sandra and I go out to dine in the district (Washington DC), we typically will order 1 dozen oysters on the half-shell as an appetizer.  I'm not sure what I would do if Sandra kept ordering a dozen oysters again and again!  I guess my credit cards have a high enough limit, but man..........48 oysters?

Raw oysters on the half-shell are good for you and tasty too!

Yes, this is my wife Sandra. I am a lucky guy. She earned an MSEE and excelled as an engineer. We are both retired now.

[larrydarren]

Haha, crazy date.

[ardankyaosen]

How many oysters?  Zero.  <shudder>

[BigAl01]

Put enough cocktail sauce on them (with horseradish of course) and you'll never know what you're eating.

These are actually cooked oysters. They were delicious too.

[petosiris]

Maybe she was pregnant and craved for seafood? 😂

I've actually never tasted Oysters but I've eaten lots of Mussels (cooked).  I grew up on an island and we learned early where to pick them and how to avoid the potential poisoned ones.  If they grew in muddy waters and the area directly around the colony was clear, then the Mussels were probably full of contaminated water they'd filtered.  If everything looked alright, we picked some and brought home for cooking, but I'd never swallow them whole because they often had a grain of sand inside ‒ the beginning of a future pearl ‒ or a small pearl, and I wouldn't want to eat that.

[BigAl01]

She was on a date - so, hopefully not pregnant!  But more importantly, you've not tried oysters?  I remember that my wife Sandra was really looking forward to the special oysters in Norway (Bergen) that were not available in the USA.  Our cruise in 2017 was wonderful.  Look at days 14-15 in that link.

Norwegian oysters on the half-shell.

[petosiris]

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@BigAl01 wrote:

But more importantly, you've not tried oysters?  I remember that my wife Sandra was really looking forward to the special oysters in Norway (Bergen) that were not available in the USA.

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No, never.  I want to try some Oysters once though.  BTW, they're spreading like wildfire today in the waters where I grew up, displacing the local species.  I guess those Oysters have originated from people enjoying them on yachts around the fjord and throwing some live ones overboard?  I don't know. 🤷‍  Anyway, there were none there when I was young.

Thank you for the link to your cruise.  It looks like you had a great vacation in northern Europe.  I've been to many of those places myself, but never to Finland, russia or Poland.  However, now that I've seen your pictures of St. Petersburg I don't have to go visit it myself. 😂  Not that I ever want to visit that country either ... 

My late wife and I was in Tallinn once and there were local russians living there, having shops.  I noticed a remarkable difference about the service in those russian shops and the ones run by Estonian people.  The russians were always in a bad mood, looked sour and didn't even bother to ask what you wanted when you entered their store, just waited for you to say something.  LOL!  On the other hand, the local Estonians were always smiling and friendly.  Did you try out the famous Olde Hansa restaurant in the old city of Tallinn?

[BigAl01]

I don't think we dined there, but I'll ask my wife Sandra.

[BigAl01]

"Did you try out the famous Olde Hansa restaurant in the old city of Tallinn?"

No, we did not dine there.  We were on a tour where you don't get much time on your own.  I think we did a short 30-minute walk and found a cat cafe though.

Of course this was closed when we walked by.

[NewAtlantis · Accepted solution]

Aren't oysters supposed to ignite the libido?
Consequently, one could think that if someone orders abnormally many, the intention is to have a longer evening elsewhere. 💕

[BigAl01]

Good point.

[eebiii]

I can put down some oysters. I will always order a dozen on a half shell. And if I am having a few drinks, I might order another dozen an hour later, but they are my favorite. 

[BigAl01]

We've shared two dozen oysters a few times, meaning a dozen each.  I think it gets old after a while, unless you are trying different ones - which we generally are.  In fancy restaurants you'll pay $3 to $4 per oyster for the nice ones, so the cost rises quickly.  And then there is the wine - usually a white, such as Sauvignon Blanc or Chenin Blanc.  Sandra prefers Sancerre.  

[GreatnessRD]

She tried to juice my mans and he wasn't going for it. 😆

Shoutout to her being able to pay her own bill, though. It's too many times on these social media bits you'll see the person cussing out their date for not paying and they're left there stuck because they couldn't afford it either, lmao.

48 oysters is extra wild! Gross, lol!

[Wally_AMD]

I grew up enjoying oysters, but somewhere along the way, I lost my taste in them. Now I think they look gross... 😂

I can't imagine putting away 48 of 'em! 

[ThreeDee]

Fried .. a million 

Raw ... a zero

[BigAl01]

You don't know what you're missing.  Cocktail sauce is all you need to help them slide down your throat.  No need to chew on anything, so it saves wear and tear on your jaws.

[Axxemann]

Oysters are a HARD PASS. 

Chicken wings? My PB is 153 in one sitting. Stupid things me and my buddies did when I was 18 . Ribs? 8 racks.

I even got kicked out of a Chili's on AYCE Fajita night... but I was playing high school football, and me and my linemates went out for food after practice.

Those days are LONG behind me, though. But my nephew did recently challenge my dad & I to a shrimp eating contest. I'll lose to my dad graciously, but the kid? Never.

[petosiris]

There's a restaurant along Route 66 ‒ the old higway from Chicago to California, I believe ‒ where you get the big steak dinner for free if you manage to eat it all up.  Few do, but a lady has the record I heard.  She also ordered extras afterwards.  😂