Do you chew or swallow?

Everyone knows I love food, going out for food and cooking in. If you know me well you know I LOVE sea food. My most recent sea food binge has been with the slippery, pink, salty, squishy, juicy, delicious, RAW oyster. Only 10 calories each!



If you land on the side of humans who love to eat oysters (as opposed to the side of people who find them disgusting), then you are aware of the many ways to eat an oyster. Restaurants offer oysters prepared differently and individual people like their raw oysters prepared in specific way. Horseradish only, cocktail sauce only, a little lemon with tabasco sauce, or like me - just salt. I find them perfect just as they are with a little bit of salt to enhance the flavor. Second question is, do you chew or swallow? I saw on T.V. (the greatest of all knowledge resources) that the TRUE way to eat an oyster is to let it just slide down your throat. And I ask, where's the fun in that??? If you like oysters you like the taste, and one can hardly get a good taste if you just let it fall down your throat without chewing. I chew. I chew the hell out of them. It's the one food that I really love to savor (which may be hard to tell considering how fast I eat them).

So Fred and just went to our first all-you-can-eat-oysters night at Oysters on the West End in downtown Greenville. YUM! I disappointed myself by only being able to eat 3 dozen, and must retract any aforementioned desire to participate in oyster eating contests. I'm still up for all-you-can-eat, but the time constraints would just stress me out. Oyster eating is relaxing and I don't want to associate stress (or barfing half way through a 10-dozen challenge) with oyster eating.

So honk if you love raw oysters! And don't go through life without at least ONE all-you-can-eat-oyster night.