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Raw, cooked, oyster sauce on a stir-fry, however you like.

Also this is a really good recipe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/beefoysterandalepie_92453

but the timing is never quite right. I had a cooked (grilled?) one at Rick Stein's fish and chip shop in Padstow. It was nice, people go into bloody raptures about them so I am not sure if that is something destroyed in the cooking process.

The first one - hate it. It was horrible.
Second and third - liked it but didn't love it.

Cold and fresh with a little lemon juice, tabasco and pepper. Yum.

they were awesome, had them with tobasco sauce

But that may have been relative to its price and the amount you actually get. I think I'd rather just have a load of prawns.

can take or leave them.

Love all other shellfish though, apart from whelks.

and I never will, so I hope that the description of them being like mucous is correct

had 6 on ice for my dessert in loch fyne last week.

really nice with tabasco. But then I found out they're alive when you eat them, which seemed both sickening and oddly cruel.

so now I don' eat them.

That microchip really gets stuck in your teeth.

I think, although i do wonder whether it's more the condiments that I love really. that shallot viaigrette is the fucking mutt's nuts. And the green tabasco!

I have had a bad one before where i lost about half a day and hallucinated like fuck. It was quite fun though.

Can I confirm, we all know it's best to chew them? The down in one thing is not cool.

I had to get out of bed to puke and shit every hour throughout the night and next day. I would have shit my bed but I had nothing left to poop as I hadn't been able to eat for 12 hours.

Fuck em.

Disgusting. Just a slimy transport for sauce like snails.

second only to lobster in the shellfish world

maybe a massive fucking langoustine is better as well actually

but my oyster doesn't interfere with my work pass.