Exactly
This is what oysters should look like.

They were delicious.
( Lord Gnome, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:21, archived)

*sharp intake of breath*
*dribbles*
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:23, archived)

You should have seen the view from the table.
How's this for a beach?
( Lord Gnome, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:30, archived)

I don't like you anymore
go away
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:33, archived)

Very cheap destination for a long weekend away that one.
Essaouria in Morocco. Heartily recommend going there.
( Lord Gnome, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:36, archived)

I will then!
and eat so many oysters I am sick!
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:39, archived)

That's not difficult.
I got food poisoning somewhere along the lines of that trip. I have a feeling it was probably as a result of eating in a fast-food place in Marrakech.

The other dish I had at the restaurant with the oysters was pasta with a sea urchin and squid ink sauce- it was quite exquisitely delicious.
( Lord Gnome, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:44, archived)

I went to a place in Paris
that had platters of seafood. It was huge, everything you can imagine on a bed of ice. Never tried sea urchin mind. God. I love sea food.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:48, archived)

A nicer beach.
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:38, archived)

Check the scale of them out.
The one I posted carries on round the coast for about 20 miles.
( Lord Gnome, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:40, archived)

There's nicer oysters out in carlingford.
They export them to paris and beyond ffs.
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:36, archived)

You do know that a very traditional Irish workingman's lunch
Is stout and oysters don't you?
( Lord Gnome, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:37, archived)

Only on the coasts of course.
The further inland you go, the less trusting of shellfish they become.
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 0:40, archived)