Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 21, 2014

The bravest person in history? The first one to eat a raw oyster.

…aka “sea boogers”.

Why would anybody ever want to eat an oyster?…Gross…And people just hork them down, they don’t even chew them well…Where’s the fun there?

I will definitely be using this line in the future.

Oysters should be dredged in cornmeal and deep-fried in peanut oil until golden brown, as God intended.

I personally like to let them slide off the shell with a dash of horseradish on it, down my gullet and chase it with a mug of. beer!

oops….sorry, first timer here

I’m reminded of this scene from Mr. Bean’s Holidayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-2isH-SgHA

For your new comers oysters were considered an aphrodisiac; and if you do not know what that means then you need to visit a dictionary web site in another window.

Unfortunately, the west coast of Florida has a major red tide coming in. My friends are worried about their seafood restaurant business. Just when things were getting somewhat back to normal after the BP fiasco….

What’s going on with the blog?

Me too, no fish for me.

I’m in Australia. I use Janis’s approach.

Actually, they are quite tasty! Top of the food chain baby!!!

There are two things you never want to eat, oysters are both of them…..

The best part is that they are alive when you eat them…

My food poops on your food

Was planning a nice evening out with friends at a very fancy fish place. Was looking forward to it very much. They teased me unmercifully because it had an oyster bar and I refused to eat them. Actually I only barely eat fish. Got them! Everyone was stuffing themselves on raw oysters while I had a nice salad and ling cod, and I said: “My Dad says eating raw oysters is like swallowing snot!” Ohhhh! That was the last time they teased me like that.

@ClarkKentPlants aren’t food.Plants are what food eats.

Just had an adventure (it takes so little . . .) trying to find the exact quote and quoter about the brave oyster eater. I majored in English during the 1950’s and remember the quote as “It was a brave man who [or maybe that] first did eat an oyster.” Google sources attribute this quote to both Johnson and Jonathan Swift, and the wording of the quote varies. I haven’t found my version yet, but I will . . . I . . . will.BTW, Johnson had quite the obstacle-filled life. I’m slogging through his bio on wikipedia.org

I’ve known a lot of meat-eaters; I’ve known several vegetarians. But I’ve never met even one vegetarian who didn’t have to talk about it all the time.

I’m with you, Janis! Like snorting snot!!

You do understand, don’t you, that when you cut up and cook those plants they’re still alive, and eating them raw is even more cruel.

Tell it to your cat

Snails either….

We eat ‘em every day of the year!!! no ’seasons’.

I don’t eat oysters, period.

DevilsNight: Reexamine your hypothesis. You will find drinking milk is a lot more basic than deciding to milk a cow. I know it is prior to conscious memory, but the subconscious persists. The first to drink milk was pre-human by millennia.

I’ve found the best way to eat an oyster is with a cheese burger, and hold the oyster.

So you’re rather rip little bits off of the organisim while keeping it alive so you can eat? .Frankly from a “moral objection” point of view what is the difference between backyard chicken eggs and a back yard bean garden?