I'm done with oysters on the half shell-- Monsters Inside Me
We've been watching Monsters Inside Me , the show on Animal Planet , about parasites and bacteria that people catch, (sometimes quite literally), and no one seems to know what it is, until it just about kills them. It features a gross parade of awful things that can happen to you, and increases my paranoia level 10-fold, about wading in icky water, travel to exotic countries, etc.
Most everyone that is infected with an awful parasite, bacteria, or virus, aren't what I would consider to be stupid people-- they are just people with bad luck that were fortunately saved by doctors that recognized their illness and were able to save them. There are exceptions, however. One of the latest episodes had a fellow on it that truly deserved his fate.
This fellow would row up and down one of the lakes in Wisconsin, in his wooden rowboat, find himself a crawdad, (or crayfish), dig it out of its shell and pop it in his mouth and eat it. EW!!! Of course, he got a bad parasite, and I can't remember its name, but he nearly lost his leg, AND his life.
Well color me stupid, but what kind of person goes around digging up to eat raw crawdads in their shell? I've dug up crawdads, to use as bait, with Grandpa, and have eaten boiled crawfish before-- but eating something that wiggles, raw, on the half shell is beyond me! As they say, EW!!!!!! We used the crawdads as bait , and I was never allowed to cut them up, and never really realized it WAS bait, because I was just a kid and Grandpa would never harm my unique sensitivities as a child...
Anyway, the kicker was at the end of the show, they interviewed this man, and he said he "didn't care that he nearly lost his life OR his leg, all he had to do was drive a truck and look pretty." WHAT a MAROON.
I'm not a proponent of making fun of people, but an exception must be made in this case. And I'm sure he's just busting a gut to go out and find more crawdads to eat raw, despite his parent's, (who appeared to be normal folk), protests.
He was in Wisconsin, and had all his own teeth, and was about 20 years old. I doubt he makes it to 30.
Note: Boiled crayfish are good! But the key is to BOIL THEM.
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No more oysters on the half shell for me! It's sort of like tempting fate!
Raw oyster on the half shell is not the same thing as raw crawfish.
Thanks! That is wonderful to know!