<p>I am pass the car sickness stage. I am a lousy driver, but I am a wonder passenger. I always carry loose change for tolls. Can I still go on the road trip?</p>
<p>mootmom, I think oysters are just more ocean, less beach dirt in taste.</p>
<p>I love oysters-
but they have to be small I don’t like their insides so much
Mussels I like better than clams- clams are mostly good for chowder and that includes geoducks. fritters are ok though if not too tough.</p>
<p>EK4 - You like the outsides of oysters? A pearl girl? Me I like diamonds and rubies best…:)</p>
<p>Yep, sybbie. You’re in and much appreciated. Especially if we go through Chicago-Land of Tolls. As opposed to here ,where we are now, Land of ■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Sybbie, you got it! Back seat window on the driver’s side is yours. The Vista Cruiser even has electric windows. The behemoths were manufactured long before drivers had the power to lock up window controls, which kind of took the fun out of it for kids. Parents and auto manufacturers understood that there was really no point in trying to save a parent’s sanity on a family vacation. :o</p>
<p>I know that oysters are supposed to be an aphrodisiac, but I have my doubts. Last time I had a dozen, only nine of them worked! ;)</p>
<p>a deviation from the car trips and oysters, but I have a cleaning tip… always keep Get Well Cards on the mantle so visitors will assume you’ve been too sick to do any.</p>
<p>While I have pretty much learned how to control motion sickness, it does get around my controls every now and then. After a childhood of Dramamine, I really hate taking it now. And after a bad reaction to raw oysters, I won’t go near the stuff. They were definitely an ANTI-aphrodisiac.</p>
<p>Texas137- great idea!</p>
<p>Oregon bays don’t have the population pressure or oil wells that contaminate the water. However these clams that I chased down are the slower eastern softshell kind (dumb and slow), and I believed migrated along the other multitude of immgrants to Oregon. I do have to be careful that we haven’t had a recent flood because the bay and river is bordered by cowland.</p>
<p>I downed 36 clam pouches yesterday and froze the meat for chowder. Don’t have demonic poisoning (I think) nor OH157, yet (could be up to 72 days after ingestion). If I was in the Sinners’s Alley having oysters, I would definitely let the critters have a good swim, and no one would know if I came down with demonic poisoningl </p>
<p>Here’s to a good red tide and happy cows.</p>
<p>One of my favorite exopressions is “Happy as a clam at high tide…”</p>
<p>My Dad used to get me up early on Saturday mornings so Mom could sleep in and we’d sneak off downtown and buy me a crueller, buy mom a bouquet of flowers Uusually daisys, sometimes snapdragons) then plop me on the fish counter at the marketplace and down a dozen oysters on the half shell with tabasco for breakfast. </p>
<p>Now, as an adult, I try really hard to eat raw oysters vbut they are kinda goopy for me…pour me one more beer and maybe I’ll be able to get one down.</p>
<p>Sybbie - the change is a great idea on the car trip but maybe we can use that for coffee at 7-11 because EZPass is really the way to go now - makes cruising on the huighways in summer a breeze…</p>
<p>one more, then I’m off.
audio: Oysters are sexed. You must have gotten a novice sexer. At least the odds were in your favor. When you buy them at a restuarant, the thinking is that having the critters segregated and given to the respective male/female diner, you can generate “sparks” and increase tip revenue. But when you buy the critters off the farm, they are not segregated by the harvester-I generally perfer them that way because the aphodisaic effect is pretty much neutral. I can tell the difference, but I’m not telling.
{glass is now empty}
Your partner must have the same ratio 9:3, but with the sex reversed.
Good nite.</p>
<p>I’ll have a half-dozen of the little devils on the half-shell, served on a platter of crushed ice with some sliced lemon, a glob of horseradish, and some chili sauce on the side. And a lovely summertime cocktail, one of my favorite recipes from the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas: The Mansion Martini – Ketel One Vodka, Chambord, Champagne and a lime wedge. Guaranteed to get your motor going! ;)</p>
<p>sluggbugg, that drink sounds delicious :)</p>
<p>My oysters are trying to sex one another. There’s only one way to handle this situation…suuuuuck! </p>
<p>SB, my treat. Last night, I looked at some online photographs of my 30-yr class reunion held over the Fourth, which is why I’m having a Mansion instead of a banana with my Fiber One. Dh & I were off on an island re-enacting Ricky Martin’s Top Ten Hits, so I had to miss the reunion.</p>
<p>Didn’t recognize my best pal from high school. :eek:</p>
<p>Sluggbugg - you have such a way with words…you almost make me want to eat an oyster!</p>
<p>It is hot as hades here - muggy, hazy, air quality zippo… Just like the weather in the Seven Year Itch…Perfect weather to stay sequestered in our corner cafe/bar and swap stories…</p>
<p>By the way, does anyone have good suggestions for retaurants (nothing fancy)/museums/or places of interest to see in Ithaca, New York and Hanover, New Hampshire…will be travelling up there in a few weeks with thirty high schoolers (many of whom are from public housing families and this is the first trip they have ever taken away from home.)</p>
<p>We are also going to be in Boston for two nights and though I used to live/teach up that aways, that was 30 years ago and I am a bit out of touch…maybe some of you well-traveled CCers have some suggestions there as well.</p>
<p>Bottoms up.</p>
<p>There is an interactive science museum in Ithaca. It’s good for all ages, I think. See <a href=“http://www.sciencenter.org/[/url]”>http://www.sciencenter.org/</a></p>
<p>I assume you are visiting Cornell. Climbing the clock tower for a carillon concert and demo of the bells is always fun, although the size of your group may be too large for that space at the top.</p>
<p>Thanks for the ideas, jyber…and actually we are breaking up into small groups during the campus tours so climbing the tower may work for some of us…</p>
<p>It is not a good idea to make your kids ride in the trunk of the car while on a long car trip. Really, it isn’t! Even if they want to ride in the trunk, and it seems like a better idea than strapping them to the hood with bungee cords, don’t do it! </p>
<p>I’m going to reveal this only to my fellow barsluggs and barflies in Sinner’s Alley…in 1968, dh loved nothing more than riding in the trunk of his father’s Dodge Charger. The rear bucket seats folded down from the inside and made a cool bat cave, where dh could read comic books and escape from his big brother on their summer drives from Nevada to Illinois.</p>
<p>Ah, but it’s just not the same in a Nissan Sentra. ;)</p>
<p>You know people, we have to stop this gabbing and go on with the college search.</p>