Megan_Strick Posted January 26, 2023 #1 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I see it says raw but will they steam them too? Also, are they still $.50/each? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wareaglefan444 Posted January 26, 2023 #2 Share Posted January 26, 2023 not sure about steaming them but they were $2.50 each last week on the Valor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyBeef Posted January 26, 2023 #3 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I've never heard of raw oysters being $.50 each. Is this what Carnival used to charge for them? That sounds crazy cheap! I have no experience with buying them onboard a ship. I love oysters, but wouldn't bother buying them on a cruise ship since I can't imagine they could compare to our local varieties. Around here, they are about $2 to $3.50 each, depending on the variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 26, 2023 #4 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I've tried them onboard a couple of times - and won't bother again. First off, good luck getting saltines and cocktail sauce. Second, good luck having them seem (even close to) fresh. Perhaps it was a couple of bad weeks we tried. I'll stick with land based places and, even then, I'm eating a lot fewer raw oysters than I did in the past, probably out of concern of the quality of the water they were harvested from. Tom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyBeef Posted January 26, 2023 #5 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said: I've tried them onboard a couple of times - and won't bother again. First off, good luck getting saltines and cocktail sauce. Second, good luck having them seem (even close to) fresh. Perhaps it was a couple of bad weeks we tried. I'll stick with land based places and, even then, I'm eating a lot fewer raw oysters than I did in the past, probably out of concern of the quality of the water they were harvested from. Tom I gotta ask, saltines? Is this a regional thing? Oysters aren't served with saltines on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Cocktail sauce, yes; hot sauce, sometimes; vinegar (in the nicer establishments), yes; straight-up horseradish, sometimes; lemon wedges as well. But saltines? Never seen this. ETA: Do you eat them on the cracker? We just fix them up (or not) and slurp them out of the shell.😁 Edited January 26, 2023 by ShakyBeef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 27, 2023 #6 Share Posted January 27, 2023 31 minutes ago, ShakyBeef said: I gotta ask, saltines? Is this a regional thing? Oysters aren't served with saltines on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Cocktail sauce, yes; hot sauce, sometimes; vinegar (in the nicer establishments), yes; straight-up horseradish, sometimes; lemon wedges as well. But saltines? Never seen this. ETA: Do you eat them on the cracker? We just fix them up (or not) and slurp them out of the shell.😁 Absolutely regional. I started my oyster eating days in the Florida panhandle. Every dive had the same gear. For me: 1 hot cocktail drenched oyster per cracker. 🙂 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mz-s Posted January 27, 2023 #7 Share Posted January 27, 2023 I ate a raw oyster exactly one time and I poured it from the shell onto a saltine, hit it with some lemon juice, and ate it. Once was enough for me! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptG Posted January 27, 2023 #8 Share Posted January 27, 2023 10 hours ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said: Absolutely regional. I started my oyster eating days in the Florida panhandle. Every dive had the same gear. For me: 1 hot cocktail drenched oyster per cracker. 🙂 Same for me. Sometimes I doctor them up with a bit of horseradish too...yum yum lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare EngIceDave Posted January 27, 2023 #9 Share Posted January 27, 2023 I don't like them because I fear them. How fresh can they be on a week long cruise? They have an oyster farm on board? Have to be a day or two once placed on board in a fridge in a tub. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptG Posted January 27, 2023 #10 Share Posted January 27, 2023 22 minutes ago, EngIceDave said: I don't like them because I fear them. How fresh can they be on a week long cruise? They have an oyster farm on board? Have to be a day or two once placed on board in a fridge in a tub. They say to only eat oysters in months that have an "r" in them. I'm a big fan of oysters though I've never had them on board a cruise ship. We do buy them by the bushel sack occasionally and it may take a couple days to go through them but as long as they're kept cold they're fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 27, 2023 #11 Share Posted January 27, 2023 2 hours ago, CaptG said: Same for me. Sometimes I doctor them up with a bit of horseradish too...yum yum lol Yep ! When I said "hot cocktail (sauce) drenched", I probably should have said "extra horseradish added". We actually bring along our own horseradish for use on steaks/prime rib, and to jazz up the cocktail sauce which comes with shrimp cocktail. 🙂 Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptG Posted January 27, 2023 #12 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Years ago the Conquest Class ships had that included seafood spot in the aft section of the ship above the Lido deck. They had a few different offerings and one was fried oysters and they were delicious! Wish they still had that option. I had them several times on the Freedom and Glory and always enjoyed them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyBeef Posted January 27, 2023 #13 Share Posted January 27, 2023 2 minutes ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said: Yep ! When I said "hot cocktail (sauce) drenched", I probably should have said "extra horseradish added". We actually bring along our own horseradish for use on steaks/prime rib, and to jazz up the cocktail sauce which comes with shrimp cocktail. 🙂 Tom I've got wasabi on my packing list for this upcoming cruise to turn my mashed potatoes in the Steakhouse into the now-missing wasabi mashed potatoes.😁 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyBeef Posted January 27, 2023 #14 Share Posted January 27, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, CaptG said: Years ago the Conquest Class ships had that included seafood spot in the aft section of the ship above the Lido deck. They had a few different offerings and one was fried oysters and they were delicious! Wish they still had that option. I had them several times on the Freedom and Glory and always enjoyed them. Loved that place! DH loved the bouillabaisse, DDs and I loved the ahi on watermelon and fish & chips.😋 Edited January 27, 2023 by ShakyBeef left out word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 27, 2023 #15 Share Posted January 27, 2023 6 minutes ago, CaptG said: Years ago the Conquest Class ships had that included seafood spot in the aft section of the ship above the Lido deck. They had a few different offerings and one was fried oysters and they were delicious! Wish they still had that option. I had them several times on the Freedom and Glory and always enjoyed them. Yep - they've replaced that now with the BBQ place. The BBQ place is hit or miss. I did prefer the fish-n-chips and fried oysters much more. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 27, 2023 #16 Share Posted January 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, ShakyBeef said: I've got wasabi on my packing list for this upcoming cruise to turn my mashed potatoes in the Steakhouse into the now-missing wasabi mashed potatoes.😁 We ate there all 4 nights of our Christmas sailing, and I asked if they could add the wasabi to mine - it wasn't a problem. Perhaps if enough people made that request, it could at least return as an option... I have no interest in the mashed potatoes without it (I consider mashed potatoes "filler", but not when they're jazzed up!!) Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megan_Strick Posted January 27, 2023 Author #17 Share Posted January 27, 2023 19 hours ago, ShakyBeef said: I've never heard of raw oysters being $.50 each. Is this what Carnival used to charge for them? That sounds crazy cheap! I have no experience with buying them onboard a ship. I love oysters, but wouldn't bother buying them on a cruise ship since I can't imagine they could compare to our local varieties. Around here, they are about $2 to $3.50 each, depending on the variety. Maybe so. I saw it somewhere. Probably an old price 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megan_Strick Posted January 27, 2023 Author #18 Share Posted January 27, 2023 14 hours ago, ShakyBeef said: I gotta ask, saltines? Is this a regional thing? Oysters aren't served with saltines on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Cocktail sauce, yes; hot sauce, sometimes; vinegar (in the nicer establishments), yes; straight-up horseradish, sometimes; lemon wedges as well. But saltines? Never seen this. ETA: Do you eat them on the cracker? We just fix them up (or not) and slurp them out of the shell.😁 I live in South Georgia. We eat them with Saltines and hot sauce. Yum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyBeef Posted January 27, 2023 #19 Share Posted January 27, 2023 1 minute ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said: We ate there all 4 nights of our Christmas sailing, and I asked if they could add the wasabi to mine - it wasn't a problem. Perhaps if enough people made that request, it could at least return as an option... I have no interest in the mashed potatoes without it (I consider mashed potatoes "filler", but not when they're jazzed up!!) Tom It's good to hear that they were willing and able to add it for you. I'll ask them to do so before I resort to whipping my own out of my evening bag. Even when the mashed potatoes were wasabi mash, I usually had to request extra wasabi after the first bite, because the wasabi flavour was so weak as to be practically undetectable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 27, 2023 #20 Share Posted January 27, 2023 6 minutes ago, Megan_Strick said: I live in South Georgia. We eat them with Saltines and hot sauce. Yum Yeppers !! I'd guess within a certain radius of Apalachicola Bay - that's just the way you grew up! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 27, 2023 #21 Share Posted January 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, ShakyBeef said: It's good to hear that they were willing and able to add it for you. I'll ask them to do so before I resort to whipping my own out of my evening bag. Even when the mashed potatoes were wasabi mash, I usually had to request extra wasabi after the first bite, because the wasabi flavour was so weak as to be practically undetectable. Bingo ! We'd always order the potatoes with "extra wasabi on the side"... and proceed to pour that entire little boat load into the potatoes. Have you ever heard the term "I stubbed my toe"? That applies in this case sometimes, or when you've added too much horseradish to something and flame torch your sinuses ! Agreed, I'd bring it along just in case! (wasabi). I was also saddened to see the bone marrow removed from the menu! 😞 Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riles34 Posted January 27, 2023 #22 Share Posted January 27, 2023 This is the first I have ever heard about saltines! I have had them on the ships and thought they were great. Oysters last about 7 days in a dark cool fridge. Are they as fresh as walking onto the Wellfleet Mass beach? Nope. But still a nice snack on the first day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 27, 2023 #23 Share Posted January 27, 2023 1 minute ago, Riles34 said: This is the first I have ever heard about saltines! I have had them on the ships and thought they were great. Oysters last about 7 days in a dark cool fridge. Are they as fresh as walking onto the Wellfleet Mass beach? Nope. But still a nice snack on the first day! That was my initial thought as well, but of course that's assuming they are not trying to run through their unused inventory from the prior sailing... yikes. Now... I hope that the oysters in the steakhouse are handled differently, as I'm still going to get those periodically (Cheryl does every sailing). But, no more Seafood Shack raw oysters for me! Perhaps I'm just fooling myself! Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riles34 Posted January 27, 2023 #24 Share Posted January 27, 2023 1 minute ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said: That was my initial thought as well, but of course that's assuming they are not trying to run through their unused inventory from the prior sailing... yikes. Now... I hope that the oysters in the steakhouse are handled differently, as I'm still going to get those periodically (Cheryl does every sailing). But, no more Seafood Shack raw oysters for me! Perhaps I'm just fooling myself! Tom Fooling yourself! I have never had an issue but know you have me thinking about Day 1 leftovers....lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted January 29, 2023 #25 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Oh, I thought it quite funny that Cheryl sent me an image that evening (girls night out - Rusty's at Pt. Canaveral): Looks like Saltines are "a thing" in Central Florida as well 🙂 Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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