How do you like your raw oysters?

Squeeze of lemon and a dash of hot sauce. I'll do a tab of cocktail if it's available but lemon and hot sauce are my go to.

Even though it's 2am, now I want some oysters.

on a saltine with extra spicy cocktail sauce

Plain.

Any way I can get them. When the flavor and texture is right, less is more. Glad you crossed over.

I'll eat oysters anyway I can get them.

When raw I prefer a mignonette sauce.

I like my raw oysters either charbroiled or fried.

I drive to Collins Oysters in Golden Meadow, buy some oysters, drive home, wash them with the hose pipe, ice them down, open them up, eat them straight out the shell.

Ice cold with a drop of Tabasco.

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a couple more half dozens

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I usually just use the word "dozen", but whatever works for you.

For me, it depends on the oyster. If they're gulf oysters, I'll make a cocktail sauce to dip them in. If they're something like Island Creeks at $4 per oyster, I'm not going to do anything to them so that I can savor the taste and salinity. I've had oysters on the Pacific side of Mexico the size of my fist. Any oyster I have to cut into four pieces is getting some sort of help from sauce. I can honestly say that I didn't enjoy an oyster that size. You wouldn't be able to eat it whole and when it was cut it was just sort of milky and gross.