Oysters

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Dear lazyweb, how bad is it to eat oysters out of season?

Do they taste bad/have more chance of giving you nasty diseases, or is it more likely to deplete the stocks of oysters?

I've been seeing a lot of po'boys lately and I could really go for one right now, do I have to wait for september or are those days long gone?

Comments

[arosoff.livejournal.com]

Summer is spawning season and the waters are warmer. The big peril is that they're going to be soft and tasteless.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

and in the days before refrigeration, they would have gone off more quickly in the summer and made you ill. I suppose nowadays you might not have to worry about that part.