Last week at the Good Food Show I had my first taste of oysters. Quite how I've managed to go this long without eating one I've no idea, other than to say that I'm not a big seafood eater. I don't particularly like fish (especially if it looks like a fish!), although I'm quite happy with most shellfish.
The oyster was provided free by a stand from Loch Fyne and was prepared for you as you waited. So how did it taste? Er, salty and a bit like a giant mussel! I didn't think it was either good or bad, and it in fact just left me with a feeling of "Meh! What's all the fuss about?"
The girlfriend did mention the supposed aphrodisiac qualities, but since we were just on our way to see Gordon Ramsay I suspect it wasn't me that was on her mind!
While Loch Fyne isn't all that far away, relatively speaking, it looks like there may be a supply of oysters right on Edinburgh's doorstep soon. They were declared extinct in the Forth back in the 1950's but a Stirling University scientist stumbled across some by accident.
It seems a shame that the first human response to this find isn't "Wow, nature can overcome!" but "How can we exploit this commercially?"
Although given what has been pumped into the Forth recently, I think I'll be giving any oysters harvested there a miss.
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