tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post6735003736379606853..comments2023-10-26T20:40:47.532+11:00Comments on opɯdʒɯlɯklɑr: New Orleans #4: Dinner at Antoine'sopoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post-6372836968048912692009-11-01T08:12:44.442+11:002009-11-01T08:12:44.442+11:00Not just testicles. If you examine a fresh oyster...Not just testicles. If you examine a fresh oyster, you will see it is most definitely hermaphroditic. And if you poach an oyster gently with a little ham -- WOW!Diana Wrighthttp://suprisedbytime.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post-39875084668536847332009-10-29T16:13:24.630+11:002009-10-29T16:13:24.630+11:00I don't know where that aphrodisiac . . .
The...<i>I don't know where that aphrodisiac . . .</i><br /><br />They're loaded with zinc. Zinc (or so I've read) is an energy builder. <br /><br /><b>What did the girl oyster say to the boy oyster?</b><br /><br />"You never open up to me."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08068077941877080797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post-15194683775879198322009-10-29T01:45:11.673+11:002009-10-29T01:45:11.673+11:00"Smily" is a great image for oysters, br..."Smily" is a great image for oysters, bringing up visions of <a href="http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html" rel="nofollow">"The Walrus and the Carpenter"</a>; alas, I suspect it's just a typo.<br /><br />Oyster-eating is definitely sympathetic magic: by consuming a symbol of the enemy's testicles, you gain the enemy's potency. Hence my warning against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters" rel="nofollow">mountain oysters</a>, apparently known in Canada as <i>prairie oysters</i>. "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." --Jno. Swift<br /><br />Sorry for the bad link, but it can't have hurt you to learn something about a now-obsolete Russian vowel letter, the bane of pre-1917 schoolchildren thanks to its unpredictable appearance in some words but not all. Would the Russians and the Americans of the 20th century have seen what all they had in common more easily, I wonder, if they could have swapped stories of agonizing failure at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_bee" rel="nofollow">spelling bees</a>? (I see this charming custom has spread to Australia, and even to Indonesia (!).)<br /><br />French restaurants in North America of whatever era have very successfully resisted Supersizing, perhaps the only cuisine that has. Restaurants that serve Whole Coq Au Vin, or Hungry-Man Beef Bourguignon, or croc-sized portions of Ris de Veau Sauce Financière, remain thankfully quite unknown. In addition, there are both traditionalist and modernist French restaurants, and a Good Thing Too, say I, who prefer my French food a la <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Escoffier" rel="nofollow">Escoffier</a>, as we say in <a href="http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2009/07/states.html" rel="nofollow">the States</a>. (<i>Separated by a common language</i> really does need more of an Ozite presence, in your copious spare time....)John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com