smucked ersters

[rone]

I found some notes that i wrote during my last trip to Ecuador in July 2003 (really, it's a shame that i haven't cobbled some sort of trip report... maybe i'll do that this week).  In a kitchen cupboard at my parent's apartment, i found a tin of smoked oysters that i know we've had since about 1976.  I'll be going back in September and i hope to find that tin there, using its smoky, molluscky powers to keep my parents safe and healthy.

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Reese
Fancy Cherry Wood
Smoked Oysters
in Cottonseed Oil    Salt Added

Exclusively imported by
Reese Finer Foods
Elk Grove Village (Chicago), New York, Atlanta, Houston,
Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Calif. 90022 USA

Product of Korea

Net Weight  3.66 Oz

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(Price tag: FEDCO FOODS
89¢)

Reese
Fancy Cherry Wood
Smoked Oysters
Serving Suggestions

Reese Rumaki

Skewer Reese Smoked Oyster on
toothpick with Reese Water Chestnut.
Wrap sliced bacon around Oyster
and Chestnut.  Secure on end of pick.
Broil until bacon is crisp.  Serve Hot.

Amazon still sells the stuff, at a slightly inflated price.

Comments

[kawgirl.livejournal.com]

*ponders* I think we might have a matching tin in our cupboard. It might even be of a similar vintage....

[wisn.livejournal.com]

...answering the question, 'Do you really eat that stuff?'

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

I reckon his parents just kept it in the house to frighten the children with, "If you don't behave, the smoked oysters will get you!"

my oysters from 1976

[(Anonymous)]

that was a bicentenial year, so, i will put them in my museum, ok? peloton

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Covert - Siren

Even I don't have an mp3 of that one in iTunes. :) Goodness me, that's ancient.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, i don't normally trade MP3s, but for you i'll make an exception if you want it.