Monday, April 19, 2010

How an Engineer Eats Oysters

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Grasp the lemon in your hand. Firmly squeeze the lemon juice all over the oysters.

Next, mix your cocktail sauce. Add approximately 40/60 ketchup/horseradish and stir. The real judge is the smell and the color. The cocktail sauce should have a pinkish hue.
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Next, open a package of crackers. Take one out. Spread on a layer of cocktail sauce 1/8" thick. It should look like this:
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Every hole on the cracker should retain some cocktail sauce.

Take your oyster fork and free the little guy from the shell. Place him on the cracker.
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Down the hatch!

Repeat at least 11 times.

10 comments:

oyster said...

Excelsior!

Clay said...

And yes, Candice does make fun of me the whole time I do this.

Frolic said...

Damn, that's a lot of hot sauce. You sure you wouldn't rather be eating something else?

Do you chew?

GENTILLY YARD ART said...

fuck being anal.

that was da mess.

this is one of the few times in your married life that you can give your wife a fail.

trust me they are far and few between if you want a long and happy mariage.


did you see sal from p and j on informed sources last night?

looks like they are planining a big oyster fest in june in the 1/4.

stay tuned.

candice said...

@gentillyyardart Oh, it's so cute is the thing. I'm not being mean.

For some reason he's the one who likes exactness and measuring and I make the desserts.

Brian V. Laws said...

Stop taunting me!!!!

GENTILLY YARD ART said...

sorry about that.

the best desserts are all eyeball measures, just like our grandma's did.

Editilla~New Orleans Ladder said...

Process is everything, eh?

Your comments Word Thingy Formentor WTFr for this comment is:
"bravy"
Bravy... oh yeah?
Bravy Gravy!

Clay said...

"This is Germany. There are procedures. I like procedures."

GENTILLY YARD ART said...

hey guys , hope you are well.

clay i'm trying to wrap my head around what's going on in the gulf.

so far the best thing i've read is bob marsalls article today.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/gulf_spill_is_really_a_river_o.html


hoping you are able to do a news round up and commentary soon.

take care , rick.