• Ha, that Bourdain quote sounds like post-oyster rationalisation at its finest. Oysters are gross, just like caviar, and only popular because Gold Rush rich folks could afford to have them shipped inland, so they became a status symbol.

    But they're gross.

  • absolutely - and eating them raw was an 18th century equivalent of the Tide pod detergent-eating dare, but pre-tiktok

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