Bluff oysters

**skippa1** · 26th March 2017, 10:47

Particularly good this year.....juicy

**pete376403** · 26th March 2017, 10:50

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

**JimO** · 26th March 2017, 10:58

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

**98tls** · 26th March 2017, 11:43

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** · 26th March 2017, 11:48

Originally Posted by JimO

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** · 26th March 2017, 12:47

Originally Posted by pete376403

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

$5.50 each at Stewart Is

**pritch** · 26th March 2017, 12:56

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

**Zedder** · 26th March 2017, 13:14

Originally Posted by ellipsis

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** · 26th March 2017, 13:17

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** · 26th March 2017, 13:30

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!