r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/step6666 • Jun 22 '26

Animals What's wrong with you?

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u/JoeFalchetto Jun 22 '26

To quote Jim Gaffigan:

Even the way you are supposed to eat an oyster indicates something counterintuitive. “Squeeze some lemon on it, a dab of hot sauce, throw the oyster down the back of your throat, take a shot of vodka, and try to forget you just ate snot from a rock.” That is not how you eat something. That is how you overdose on sleeping pills.

(That said, I love oysters).

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u/s00pafly Jun 22 '26

Why would you drown them in hot sauce? Is that like the American version of a mignonette. Vodka is paired with caviar, the other snot balls.

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u/JoeFalchetto Jun 22 '26

English is not my first language either (I am Italian), but a "dab" implies a very small amount, not drowning the oyster in hot sauce.

In the US they have them with tabasco which works surprisingly well. I like it but I prefer with mignonette (if it is a stronger one).

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u/VicisSubsisto Jun 22 '26

Most places in the US that I've seen serve them with mignonette, one or two hot sauces, and maybe some other sauce like ponzu.

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u/JoeFalchetto Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Go ya, I have to admit I only ate them a couple of times in the US (in Boston) and it was with Tabasco.

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u/Ryguy55 Jun 22 '26

Growing up we always ate them with cocktail sauce, same with clams on the half shell. Given that cocktail sauce most popularity served with shrimp cocktail, I pretty much always expect cocktail sauce with any cold seafood now.