But I am grocery shopping for a weekend trip to VT. I am shopping thursday night as i’m leaving early am on friday. I want to bring oysters. If I buy them thursday (to eat saturday), what’s the best way to keep them and the best way to travel with them
“While technically an animal, the oyster is considered by some ethicists to be an appropriate food choice for vegans and vegetarians, arguing it is acceptable to eat oysters, because in the relevant ethical terms they are rather closer to plants than animals.”
What Wikipedia fails to point out is that oysters spawn in the summer months, which negatively affects flavor and (particularly) texture. In addition, the odds of contamination with human pathogens (particularly Vibrio vulnificus) are much higher when the water is warm.
I usually just travel with oysters by strolling down the beach, holding hands with them.
Julia Child had a wonderful reminiscence, IIRC her family lived in Ohio and in her grandmother’s day they would have BARRELS of oysters shipped out on the railroad as freight.
I don’t generally buy oysters from the fish store in the non-R months (as per Robert’s admonition) – but come SeptembeRRR I am back in business. OTOH I have learned that buying oysters in a good restaurant seems to be safe all year round, presumably because they have a buyer who tastes the goods.