What the fuck? I accidentally bought these. How is this a thing?

They're pretty good.

Grab a toothpick, a sleeve of saltines, your favorite hot sauce, and a bottle of bourbon, and go to town.

They're delicious. Drain the oil, grab a fork and dig in.

>>8503177
What did you think you were buying?
Eat them on a premium plus cracker with a little hot sauce

>>8503187
toothpicks
I'm vegan I don't eat oyster

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tastes like my childhood

>>8503191
you know oysters have no brain and are the most environmentally sound crop on earth?

Tastes delicious, just like most thing involving oysters... even more so since it is smoked.

>>8503202
They're sentient life. They feel pain.

>>8503204
they don't feel pain

they're as sentient as a mushroom or a carnivorous plant

>>8503204
>They feel pain
Not if they don't have a brain

>>8503212
>>8503213
Do your research.

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>>8503217

Put them fuckers on pizza for maximum tasty.

>>8503200
As much as I like smoked oysters, these do look like poop on a cracker.

>>8503227
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/605786

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>>8503237
>Huffington post

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>>8503237
>>8503246
huffington post BLOG

>>8503246
>>8503250
It's good data

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>>8503253
it's fucking nothing

>>8503259
That's you're opinion

>>8503266
it's a fact that oysters are one of, if not the most environmentally sustainable crops

>>8503286
I'm still allowed to believe it's immoral to eat them

>>8503253
Listen, I don't give a shit about what your diet is, but this "data" is garbage.

I only had to skim this blog to see that the author uses his own opinion articles as citations. His ultimate argument centers around the fact that since other animals have been found to feel pain we can't take chances with oysters.

Even a cursory google search shows oysters have no brain and don't react to pain.

At the end of the day all you're doing is trying to virtual signal about what a good vegan you are on /ck/.

TL:DR Your evidence is shit, leave this board and don't come back.

t. assblasted biologist

>>8503313
You're projecting

>>8503313
The author made some very good points and any decent vegan knows not to eat oysters. You just have problems with vegans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmpH19HSLrs

>>8503306
and i'm allowed to think you're a hypocrite for thinking it's more "moral" to prefer crops that require hectares of arable land, fertilizers made from the blood and bones of sentient beings, and boat loads fresh water

>>8503338
Now you're just being ridiculous

>>8503318
>>8503331
>Regards in charge of biology

>>8503350
Retards* fuck autocorrect

>>8503346
if you knew a single thing about agriculture, you'd know that i'm not

>>8503346
Not him, but how is that ridiculous? He didn't even mention animal manure for fertilizer. It perfectly fits the definition of hypocrisy.

>>8503359
>>8503381
As I said earlier
Do your research

I only eat safe organic food

And no! Animals aren't harmed in the process

>>8503396
lol. now i know you're baiting

but in case you're as stupid as you come across, the #1 organic fertilizer is chicken shit and #2 is slaughterhouse waste

>>8503405
Not baiting. I don't believe anything you say.

>>8503410
then you're stupid

congratulations

>>8503405
Shit, I completely forgot, that chicken shit is the property of the chicken, I shouldn't be stealing from the chickens and thus violating the NAP, dog bless america *sues chicken for stealing my bird seed*

>>8503417
No you are

>>8503396
>only eat organic vegetables

Since synthetic fertilizers are not permitted under USDA organic certification, the growers of the vegetables you consume are using animal manure, fish emulsion, blood meal for nitrogen, and bone meal for calcium and potassium. You think the organic growers wander around springfed fields collecting cowpies? How are fish emulsion, blood and bone meal obtained without the death of the animal? Death by natural causes?

While reputable organic growers use broad spectrum pyrethrins only rarely to combat unusually severe insect infestations, they still use other control methods to eliminate destructive insects which, although in your worldview are "eww, bugs, yucky," they are animals. Furthermore, rodents, rabbits and even deer have to be eliminated if they're attacking the crops.

>>8503518
Where exactly are you getting this information

>>8503529
go visit a fucking farm you b12 deficient brain dead retard

>>8503204
They don't feel as much pain as the little animals that get mutilated by the farming equipment used to harvest your food.

>>8503529
Kill yourself so we can use your remains as fertilizer.

>>8503529
By researching how to grow organic vegetables so that I can grow my own on 1 acre for a spring, summer and fall season - which I've been doing successfully for the last 5 years. By talking to organic farmers at farmers markets and visiting their farms.

How is it you "only eat organic" and know nothing about the process? Did you decide it was a good thing to do because your favorite pop singer or actress said she did it?

>>8503213
Naturally they don't experience pain as we do, but they should have some negative response to danger and should be able to neurologically detect "unpleasantness"

>>8503550
>>8503570
>>8503572
>>8503588
Just stop

>Implying oysters or any animals living in the water have emotions or can feel pain
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>>8503588
Not OP,

That sounds neat anon.

How much of an investment (time & money) did it take to get something like that going?

>>8503613
3 hours a week
$300 every 2 months

>>8503177

They're savory, oily, and delicious. Eat them with cheese, pickles and crackers

>>8503624
They're made of meat tho

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>>8503186
Behold the homemade smoked oyster. They are incredible in pasta carbanara and oyster strew. Have also put them in holiday stuffing.

>>8503639
>made of meat

>>8503177
Smoked Oysters are the fucking bomb

But Cottonseed Oil?

That stuff isnt good for you, and it usually gives me headaches if I eat anything more than a tiny bit of it.

>>8503671
Go vegan

>>8503671
Yeah, cottenseed oil is cancer. You should be getting all your canned seafood in either water or sauce.

>>8503688
Why

>>8503675
go jump off your proverbial high horse and snap your neck on the landing

>>8503623
Thats pretty awesome.

Do you have a link / reference suggestion if I wanted to get into it?

>>8503641

Those look really good.

Do you smoke them right in the shell with their liquor?

>>8503177
These are great.

>>8503396
what a sheltered fool you are. out of sight out of mind I guess.

>>8503697
https://www.google.com/amp/m.wikihow.com/Start-a-Farm%3Famp%3D1?client=safari

>>8503602
Nope. You have no power here. You can always go to reddit if you're looking for an echo chamber.

>>8503613
I't's my own property, but I had to build up the soil since it's very much clay. Fortunately I know a cattle farmer that allows me to clean out his barns for free cattle manure. Then I used clover and vetch cover crops which also add nutrients back to the soil. The biggest thing is start in a smaller area and get your soils ready in an expansion area. Also the most important thing for preventing damaging insect infestations and soil fertility is crop rotation.

Once you get the soils built up, the seeds are incredibly cheap. You have to dedicate time, but weed control can be achieved with ground covers. It's a hobby that pays off ultimately because you're doing manual labor to burn calories and growing healthy, fresh food cheaply.

You would be shocked how much produce you can grow cheaply in an 8x8 plot.

>>8503336

>i don't believe it's selfish, to eat defensive shellfish

Wow, I haven't actually listened to that since probably middle school.

>>8503691
Cottonseed oil has an excess of omega-6 oils, which most people get too much of in their diets. Ideally you want to have an 1 to 1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3, but for the average person in non-East Asian countries it's 15:1. Over-consumption of omega-6 fats leads to more oxitive damage over time (this accelerates cancer, aging, heart disease, etc). That combined with over-consumption of sugar is literally cancer for your body.

You can combat omega 3-6 imbalance by eating fatty seafood which is rich in omega-3.

>>8503699
I usually steam them open with wine, get them out of the shell, and then put them on a dehydrator mat inside my smoker. Then I smoke them for about 2 hours.

I do the same for mussels.

>>8503734
Thanks anon! I'll look into it a bit more later.

>>8503752

Sounds legit.

Looking forward to moving slightly closer to the coast in the very near future.

>>8503639
>>8503602
>>8503455
>>8503410
>>8503396
>>8503346
>>8503318 (specially)

This (or these) anon(s) are clearly baiting. disregard them fools.

>>8503958
Retard much?

>>8503177
Ya

>>8503177
They're nothing spectacular, but I enjoy them together with sardines in a hot dog bun with some Jack Daniel sauce.