Bluff oysters

[skippa1]

Particularly good this year.....juicy

[pete376403]

At $3 EACH (local chippie) so they should be!

[JimO]

my dad used to buy them by the sack, you would have to be Bill Gates to afford a sack of oysters nowdays

[98tls]

knocked back 2 doz 1st grade seconds the other day,$21 a doz most of em i couldnt work out why the were classed as seconds.Might have a dozen cooked ones for tea if i can find any.

[ellipsis]

my dad used to buy them by the sack, you would have to be Bill Gates to afford a sack of oysters nowdays

...my old man was on coasters back when I was a kid...I used to hate seeing three or four sacks of the things come home with him from Bluff...opening them was tediously slow for me, just so other people I hardly new would turn up and take them away...had enough back then to either take 'em or leave 'em nowadays...same with crays...and whitebait...

[skippa1]

At $3 EACH (local chippie) so they should be!
$5.50 each at Stewart Is

[pritch]

The old Lancashire hotpot recipes used to contain oysters because they were dirt cheap - cheaper than mutton. No longer.

[Zedder]

had enough back then to either take 'em or leave 'em nowadays...same with crays...and whitebait...


I know what you mean, but I can't say the same about scallops.

[Ocean1]

The old man's company supplied engines to a lot of the fleet down there. He'd often go down to check a problem and come home with a sack of borderline legal oysters.

I remember shucking them and eating them out on the back lawn. I stopped doing that when I came across a rotten one. I cook 'em nowadays.

[Laava]

I have never had an oyster that has been off and been sick so I can only imagine...
Similarly I cannot imagine eating or even wanting a cooked one!
We coincidentally turned up to Bluff on festival day and got smuggled in by some wonderfully drunk cantabrians! Downed a couple dozen of the best from the strait and drank some free beer!

[george formby]

I have never had an oyster that has been off and been sick so I can only imagine...
Similarly I cannot imagine eating or even wanting a cooked one!

Not even in light, crispy batter with some garlic and lemon mayo?

[Laava]

Not even in light, crispy batter with some garlic and lemon mayo?

Dude, is that foreplay?

[Grumph]

At $3 EACH (local chippie) so they should be!

About $2.50 ea in ChCh on Friday. Sat on the bank at Ruapuna eating them and watching open practise....The joys of retirement.

[Ocean1]

Not even in light, crispy batter with some garlic and lemon mayo?

Tempura batter. Dribble of lemon/coriander vinaigrette.

[Katman]

Sea snot.

:puke:

[Woodman]

Battered, but still raw inside. mmmmm best food ever.

Scallops, blue cod and whitebait are bland, mussels are nice, paua is possibly my favourite food, crayfish makes me puke but has more to do with alcohol poisoning after eating a shit ton of crayfish whilst achieving alcohol poisoning. Funny thing it never put me off drinking.

[Zedder]

Battered, but still raw inside. mmmmm best food ever.

Scallops, blue cod and whitebait are bland, mussels are nice, paua is possibly my favourite food, crayfish makes me puke but has more to do with alcohol poisoning after eating a shit ton of crayfish whilst achieving alcohol poisoning. Funny thing it never put me off drinking.


Heh, but it may have affected your taste buds...

[husaberg]

Tempura batter. Dribble of lemon/coriander vinaigrette.

Nah served on Temepara
329550
Ie Baileys, milk and honey

[Oakie]

1st grade seconds

Isn't that an oxymoron? Oystermoron even?

[Oakie]

Oh ... and oyster soup is the only way I like them. Heat combined milk and oyster liquor with a few other bit n bobs. Oysters thrown in at the end to heat through.

[Honest Andy]

I tasted an "Oyster Stout" at a brewery a little while ago, and asked the dumb question:

Andy: "Why's this called 'oyster' stout?"
Brewer: "Cos we put oysters in it"
Andy: "Really?"
Brewer: "Yeah, at the end of the boil"
Andy: "Well fuck me!"
Brewer: "No thanks, but I'll sell you more beer...!"

:lol:

[awayatc]

Used to get fisherman stop at te Anau to sell a few bags....
Found easiest way to clean them was put whole bag in freezer for a bit... they would then all magically open up all by themselves. ...

[Banditbandit]

Nah served on Temepara
329550


YUMMY ... (+ 10 fucking characters ...)

[jasonu]

YUMMY ... (+ 10 fucking characters ...)

Compared to what?

[husaberg]

Compared to what?

Usual american skanks like the Kardasians. The Williams Sisters etc

[jasonu]

Usual american skanks like the Kardasians. The Williams Sisters etc

Tru dat sista

[Black Knight]

Christchurch late 50's,self and 3 mates,buy a sackfull,fill 4.5 gal keg with Wards beer, and have a most enjoyable Saturday.

[ellipsis]

fill 4.5 gal keg with Wards beer,


...haha...sounds very familiar...my 'old', favourite drop...I'd forgotten, must be an age thing...

[Oakie]

...haha...sounds very familiar...my 'old', favourite drop...I'd forgotten, must be an age thing...

Yes ... Wards was a dusty old memory for me too.

[Black Knight]

Our favourite trick was to carefully remove the cap,insert a rats tail,bent bottle cap or similar,re-seal with the home brew capper and take it back to the Wards brewery (St Asaph St I recall) and complain.You were given a tour of the brewery which included the quality control dept-an old guy sitting on a stool in front of a conveyor belt which had a lit diffuser sheet behind it.Bottles went by at a rate of a dozen every 10 secs and the old fella was supposed to see any with "contaminants",he was always rolling fags so a lot got through.The best part was they gave you two dozen as hush money,with four of us in the flat we could pull this stunt every 6 weeks and get away with it.
Then of course you would get the genuine contaminants,rip a cap off and the contents would fizz like mad,if you were real pissed you didn't notice until you felt the rats tail in your mouth-good times.