Hello there. I usually don’t start eating oysters until November, but I have a good reason to start this weekend. Anyone tryed them yet? Are they ready?
Thanks, O.C.
I ate some a few weeks ago that I bought from Crosby’s and they were delicious. They were from the Folly area and were nice and salty. They were not milky at all like they tend to be at the beginning of the season. Due to the cool summer we had, I think the gonads de-ripened earlier than usual. They were clean with zero mud and didn’t require any extra cleaning. Also, the oysters that Crosby’s picked were excellent. Nice and big, not those crummy clusters with hardly any oysters over 3 inches that some seafood retailers will sell. Sometimes retailers (not naming any names) need to be a little more cautious about the product they are buying from the pickers and selling to the consumers. There were a couple of occasions last year where there were only a few big oysters in the bushel. Most of the product was small oysters that should have been culled on the shoreline.
we picked our own last weekend and they were small but good and salty…
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Picked a bushed from behind Folly on October 6th, they were delicious, in a couple more weeks will do it again, so it goes until “May’r” 15th, the end of the season - you know the months with the R in the month. Everyone things I’m crazy when I call May - May’r! LOL.
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Originally posted by penfishn around every bend theres the promise of a treasure that can only be caught and seen in a blink.. and in your minds eye..and sometimes if youre lucky..in a picture..its there for just a minute...then gone..but hopefully once youve seen it it will remain in your heart forever. Theres nothing like the "Smell" and sounds of the creek. Its not just one thing that makes it familiar..its all of it.
mmm…had lunch along a bank the other day…doesnt get any fresher than that. talked to joanne at carolina seafood…should be about 21.00 full bushel if youre looking to buy some bulls bay/mcclellanville ones.
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