{"id":343,"date":"2020-06-22T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=343"},"modified":"2020-06-22T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:42:21","slug":"ugh-oysters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Ugh, Oysters."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Direct from some seabed, somewhere nearby.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I love fresh oysters and I have no idea why. The thought of them really isn’t particularly exciting, really. And yet, somehow, they are amazing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My oyster journey started more than 20 years ago, when I was having a bite to eat with a friend of mine. He is older than I, and I trust his food suggestions without question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tray of fresh oysters went by and I grimaced. He looked at me and asked, “You don’t like oysters?”. I replied I had never had one, but the idea was somewhat challenging. He responded by ordering a dozen malpeques<\/a>. I figured that if John said they were good, I wasn’t going to die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here’s what happened. I had one – with a touch of a vinegar mignonette. I was totally unprepared for how much I enjoyed it. I remember thinking quite a few things, most notably, “huh, I have been missing out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This order of Kusshi Oysters<\/a> that I had with my dinner last week was delightful, but my wife still won’t try one, no matter how much I try to encourage her to give it a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oyster lesson has stuck with me – my mom always wanted us to at least try dishes that were presented to us as children. She made some pretty strange (to a kid) dishes. Some were great, others less so. This is something I do with my children. I always ask them to at least try it. Sometimes they’re right and they hate it. Sometimes the plate is clean before I can get another word in. Things haven’t changed much since I was a kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, no one in my family has taken me up on my conviction about how great oysters are. Even my brother and sister aren’t interested. Time will tell, but I expect that at some time in the near future someone in the family will admit that I was right, and they are really good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I’m at it, I would also like a pony, now that we’re wishing for crazy things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love fresh oysters and I have no idea why. The thought of them really isn’t particularly exciting, really. And yet, somehow, they are amazing. My oyster journey started more than 20 years ago, when I was having a bite to eat with a friend of mine. He is older than I, and I trust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}