What's the Biggest Pearl You've Found Eating an Oyster?

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My wife got this one in an oyster poboy yesterday.

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OUCH, hope it didn't break a tooth. I've found some over the years when shucking oysters that size and bigger and they are almost always like that one, more teardrop than round in shape.

I found one a little larger than that one in an oyster at Louisiana Langiappe the day before mothers day. It had a small black speck exposed where the sand did not get completely encapsulated by the pearl. The waitress snatched it up when I brought it to her attention and brought it back to the kitchen. I never saw it again. She did say that the kitchen staff said finding one is good luck.
The good luck was that I didn't break a tooth!