Originally Posted by
HawkTheSlayer
I can't afford to eat them, anymore. 4, 5, 6 in a little container depending on the size for $9.99, $6.99 on sale.
When i was in college in the early 80s , we would buy two gallons shucked every cupla of weeks and feed all our hometown folks fried oyster poboys with fresh baked bread that the girls would cook. Might a been $30-40 for 2 gallons shucked.
Sometimes on Sunday afternoon or night when our friends were arriving back to town for classes on Monday, we would go to the fish market and buy a 120 lb sack for $20, I'm not kidding, and 2 or 3 of us would shuck them fresh for eating raw and cooking. I don't remember, but there was way more than 2 gallons of oysters in that sack. Maybe 3 or 4 gallons. And I mean solid oysters, not oysters and juice.
You just had to do the work yourself.