Talk:Oyster
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- Oysters can be eaten either raw or cooked, but like all shellfish they have an extremely short shelf-life. They MUST be fresh when consumed or they can cause serious illness.
What about smoked oysters? These come in cans and seem like they'd last for years. I've been to places that carry canned smoked oysters and don't restock too often... -- Merphant
I have removed the following line from the article:
- Researchers in Oregon have invented a self-shucking oyster.
I believe that this sentence refers to this report: [1] (http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/makingadifference/stories/OysterSoA.html)
These aren't oysters that shell themselves. What they invented (AFAICT from a brief skim of the article) was a process to sterilise the meat without cooking it, and this happened to make the meat come away from the shell.
Almost got this spectacularly wrong in a report from reading the article, so thank goodness I checked on Google. --Suitov 14:35, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
Here's an external image of editable oysters, probably of the Ostrea genus. zh-min-nan:Image:Chhinn-o-a.jpg A-giau 06:24, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Oyster farming
The following needs to be cross-checked and NPOVed:
Most of Europe's supply of oysters comes from France. Oysters are popular among most countries in Europe with the possible exception of the UK. Between the World Wars, a plague ruined most of the oyster farms in the English Channel, infecting them with TB, and so consuming these oysters would cause illness to humans; so French scientists wanted to find a new type of oyster which was resistant to the TB bug, and came up with a type of oyster from China, which is what most of today's oysters are. However, the Brits seem to be still angry about the French poisoning them back in the between-wars period, so import very little amounts of French oysters Oyster farms are well-protected in the north of France, and the French government enforces strict anti-pollutian laws on the shores of Normandy and Brittany, where oyster farming is most prolific. Examples of towns which have oyster farms are Concarneau and St. Malo
Huitre
Oyster comes from the Latin word Ostrea (as you know) and the oyster-season is from September till April. These are eight months with an "R".
Some people say that therefore the French word for oyster, "huitre", comes from huit "eight" - re "R", so eight months with an R, the oysterseason.