{"id":1556,"date":"2010-02-27T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:42:25","slug":"consider-the-oyster-a-month-long-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/consider-the-oyster-a-month-long-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the oyster: a month-long experiment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bourbonhouse.com\/index.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1559\" title=\"oysters\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/oysters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/oysters.jpg 640w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/oysters-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/oysters-370x119.jpg 370w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/oysters-600x192.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>Did you see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0390521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Super Size Me<\/a>? That terrifying movie where Morgan Spurlock eats only McDonald&#8217;s food for a month?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m thinking of doing a similar experiment. Except less terrifying. And easier.<br \/>\n<strong>What if I ate a half dozen raw oysters every day for a month?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy oysters? Several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oysters are associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalseafoods.com\/index.cfm\/page\/A-Healthful-Indulgence\/pid\/11394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loads of health claims<\/a>, from boosting energy to promoting a health immunity system. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/about_5280633_raw-oysters-nutrition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They&#8217;re high in zinc and B12 but low in calories<\/a>. Anecdotally, when I eat them, I almost always feel great, physically and mentally. When we were in Key West recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfshellrawbar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an oyster bar we loved <\/a>had a flier that said five oysters a day fulfill the RDA of several nutrients. What possible motive\u00a0would they have for lying?<\/li>\n<li>Plus, <a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/hub\/Aphrodisiac-Foods-the-Oyster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oysters are considered an aphrodisiac<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>If you want to test a theory, you want to eliminate as many variables as possible. Since consuming raw oysters is common, it would be far easier to test their effects on body, mind and spirit than if they were always served, say, covered in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oysters_Rockefeller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cheese and spinach, then baked<\/a>. It would focus on the oysters themselves, along with tiny amounts of cocktail sauce.<\/li>\n<li>I could instead do something like this with sushi, testing the effects of eating raw fish daily. But my favorite sushi is tuna, which is considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=1521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bad for the environment<\/a>, while oysters get the thumbs up from the Environmental Defense Fund. Meanwhile, on a personal health level, because tuna are fatty fish higher on the food chain, they&#8217;re often associated with mercury warnings, while oysters, along with anchovies and sardines, don&#8217;t gobble up loads of other smaller fish so they don&#8217;t collect mercury.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m mostly vegetarian, though I do make occasional exceptions for fish and seafood. As <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2009\/10\/22\/people-often-ask-me-why-im-vegetarian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an ethical vegetarian<\/a>, someone who doesn&#8217;t want animals to suffer, I find it easier to justify consuming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/HTML\/content\/questions\/question\/2279\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a creature without a brain<\/a>, which probably doesn&#8217;t experience fear the same way a pig or cow would.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been investigating my options in New York for good quality, inexpensive oysters, and it appears there are several places that serve $1 oysters at happy hour: Lure, Lela Bar, Fish, Essex, City Lobster, Shaffers, Aquagrill, Docks. They&#8217;re all listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/topic\/new-york-1-oyster-happy-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yelp&#8217;s oyster happy hour conversation thread<\/a>. John also sent me an e-mail this week announcing <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.timeoutny.com\/newyork\/the-feed-blog\/restaurants-bars\/2010\/01\/cheap-eats-1-oysters-at-all-mermaid-inns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mermaid Inn&#8217;s $1 oyster deal<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf we spent $12 a day on oysters (because John would feel left out if I did this alone), that would be about $16 a day after tax and tip. Doing that for 30 days would be $480.<br \/>\nOf course, when John and I got a dozen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oysterbarny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Central Oyster Bar<\/a> Saturday, the variety that knocked me out were Kumamotos, which our waitress said is their most popular. Those are $3.05 each, and splurging on those California delights for a month would push the experiment to about 48 bucks a day &#8212; more than $1,400 for the month.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s assuming we never get a glass of wine or pint of beer to go with the oysters. Obviously we need to boost the budget a little because that assumption is terrible.<br \/>\n<strong>Whether the high end or low rent approach, I think it would be fantastic to find a sponsor for this experiment. 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