Did you know you can snork an oyster through your nose and never taste it?
Terrible waste of an oyster.
Haven’t had a decent oyster pie in years – I’m kinda into oyster mushrooms of late . . . still “lovely”, in a different sort of way
This footage is amazing! Imagining that many row boats going out to harvest is quite a sight . . . hard working men indeed!
As a young lad from 9-11, I worked at Hausner’s Restaurant on Eastern Avenue in Baltimore. Mom would drive me to work at about six and I would work til nine – three days a week. At the time child labor laws were not enforced as they are now. I could shuck a dozen oysters in about three minutes and pop them onto a half shell over ice. The oyster men got about 75 cents for that dozen and I got 20 cents. Hausner’s cleared about two bucks. My income was not based on salary or per hour, but on the number of orders placed by patrons. Some nights, I realized a buck or less. On a Friday or Saturday gig, I would pull in five to six dollars. Such was life in the early 50′s.
WaltTheMan
Are small independantly owned oyster farms appearing on your coast?
db,
Not yet to my knowledge. I only am buying reef oysters.
Did you know you can snork an oyster through your nose and never taste it?
Terrible waste of an oyster.
Haven’t had a decent oyster pie in years – I’m kinda into oyster mushrooms of late . . . still “lovely”, in a different sort of way
This footage is amazing! Imagining that many row boats going out to harvest is quite a sight . . . hard working men indeed!
As a young lad from 9-11, I worked at Hausner’s Restaurant on Eastern Avenue in Baltimore. Mom would drive me to work at about six and I would work til nine – three days a week. At the time child labor laws were not enforced as they are now. I could shuck a dozen oysters in about three minutes and pop them onto a half shell over ice. The oyster men got about 75 cents for that dozen and I got 20 cents. Hausner’s cleared about two bucks. My income was not based on salary or per hour, but on the number of orders placed by patrons. Some nights, I realized a buck or less. On a Friday or Saturday gig, I would pull in five to six dollars. Such was life in the early 50′s.
WaltTheMan
Are small independantly owned oyster farms appearing on your coast?
db,
Not yet to my knowledge. I only am buying reef oysters.