What a lot of food

[stormrider]

Started on the 21st with a bag (60 lb) of oysters for Chris's 20th birthday. Ate some raw and lots of em baked with butter, bacon, cheese and more cheese on em with some homemade cocktail sauce. Thanksgiving day had me up at 6 to light the grill to smoke the ole bird. Put it in a pan and covered it with foil to seal in the jucies. Ham as well. All the fixins, topped off with homemade strawberry pie, pecan pie, millionaire pie, etc. Met up with my brother yesterday at Appalachicola, FL, ate more oysters, their leftovers, etc. Bought another bag of oysters while there and tore into them this afternoon at home. These today were some of the best I've had in years. Very nice size, good flavor, whew, I'm ready for a break. Oh well, got about 6 dozen left in the cooler that will be sucked down tomorrow. And did I say pies for desert.

Don't know about where you're at but here in south Alabama, Appalachicola Oysters are a favorite weekend dish. Hunt's, a local oyster bar, will go through a couple hundred bags a weekend on the half-shell and sell several hundred bags to carry home.

While at the coast, picked up the local monthly area paper and read about the FDA's efforts to keep the public safe. They want to close the season from May to October because of the virus associated with oysters and the very few deaths attributed to eating oysters. Another of the out of touch with reality moves by big brother. This move would in effect cause hundreds of harvesters to lose their jobs plus put all the oyster bars out of business. The article stated that half of the 15 deaths were people with scirosis (? spelling) of the liver and the other half with other medical conditions. Restuarants that serve oysters have warning info on their menus. Let the buyer beware. What about drunk driving? How about banning that? It isn't banned. Just unlawful. If they want to ban drunk driving then post cops at the driveway of bars, bike rallies, Shrinner conventions, etc. and as folkes pulled out, stop em and check em. Put em in jail for however many years it takes to lock up all the drunk drivers. There are thousands killed every year by drunk drivers.

I don't know about ya'll but I'm tired of big brother regulating every facit of my life and now they want to take away my oysters for my own good. Eating fatty fried foods can kill, or if I ate lots of sugary foods could kill me, or looking at Nancy Pelosi pics could make me want to commit suicide, why don't they ban those?

Well, heck, this post started out about the great time I had with family and friends chomping down on some great vittals, then I remembered that article. It doesn't take away the good times but just  a bummer that the govenment is always looking for new ways to control us.

[fstsix]

Cheer up mate,  We can still apply for those new prison jobs, They are going to need a lot of help with all those prison guard jobs Created  but you know that new health care Bill is for our best interest  http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/vat_tax_healthcare_reform/2009/11/28/291701.html?s=al&promo_code=9236-1

[Scanner]

Really. I mean if Stormrider wants to eat tainted oysters with a side of Mad Cow infected beef that should be his choice! How bout a salad of E coli lettuce? Don't need any damn fed inspectors ruining his meal. Eat up!

[stormrider]

Really. I mean if Stormrider wants to eat tainted oysters with a side of Mad Cow infected beef that should be his choice! How bout a salad of E coli lettuce? Don't need any damn fed inspectors ruining his meal. Eat up!

You just don't get it do you? The FDA's reply about the lost jobs would be job training..... for what jobs. With the downfall of the housing market the number of oyster harvesters has doubled in the last two years in Gulf County. So your fine with them losing their jobs along with all the oyter bars across the south going out of business as well all because a few morons don't take the precautions seriously.

So what about the 11,854 alchohol related traffic fatalities to date this year in the US? What's your solution for that Scanner? You know everything about everything, solve that one for me.