A customer last week at Vinnies Raw Bar on Lake Norman found oil inside his oysters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivto6CDiBs
http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-oil-in-oyster-100620,0,2378672.story

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" LAKE NORMAN, N.C. - A customer at Vinnie's Raw Bar at Lake Norman says he found oil inside the oyster he was eating. Matthew Robertson says he was eating oysters with dinner at Vinnie's Raw Bar at Lake Norman when he found oil inside the oyster. "They looked fine, just regular, but then as the soon as they opened, you know, it's just they got on my hands, the black stuff, and it was a kind of on, a little bit on, as you can see, right here. It was just a little bit on the meat." Robertson said. "

[Edited on July 11, 2010 at 10:53 PM. Reason : sp]

7/11/2010 10:53:10 PM

I bet he put it there like the finger lady from Wendy's a few years back.

7/11/2010 10:54:09 PM

it was a kind of on, a little bit on, as you can see, right here

7/11/2010 10:54:16 PM

^yeah, that made, my, head hurt

7/11/2010 10:55:16 PM

wait

cooked oysters open while cooking

ive never done raw oysters but i thought they served them on the half shell


also if youre eating a raw oyster in july then you deserve to get a lil oil in there

7/11/2010 10:56:07 PM

well shit...

I, too, eat at NC restaurants and I, too, don't want to eat oil.

7/11/2010 10:56:53 PM

It depends where you go for raw oyster.

Some oyster bars will shuck them in front of you and others will just give you a bucket and a shucker.

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7/11/2010 10:58:26 PM

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7/11/2010 10:59:18 PM

^^ most the time steamed oyster just barely open enough to fit a knife blade in.

7/11/2010 10:59:26 PM

I hate the way oil can go through the shell of a crustacean and into the meat without getting on the shell itself.


I concur with Fareako.

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"I bet he put it there like the finger lady from Wendy's a few years back."

7/12/2010 12:07:24 AM

Well damn, I ate at Vinnies just last week.

7/12/2010 12:12:11 AM

^^ Oysters are washed before you steam them. The outsides are cleaned, but inside the shell remains untouched. Oysters are also one of the first organisms to filter toxins out of the water. Why is it so hard to believe that oil ended up in these oysters?

7/12/2010 12:21:25 AM

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"AT NC RESTRAUNT"

7/12/2010 12:21:58 AM

i love that he isn't ordering shrimp either.

as most of the shrimp we eat comes from southeast asia, rather than the Gulf of Mexico.

yay people who don't know what they are eating.

7/12/2010 1:10:55 AM

Another reason why the place I live is awesome. I know where the majority of my seafood came from.

7/12/2010 8:25:31 AM

I hate the way oil can go through the shell of a crustacean mollusk

7/12/2010 8:32:16 AM

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"Why is it so hard to believe that oil ended up in these oysters?"

because the dumb ass didn't realize that the oysters didn't come from the Gulf, they came from Thailand. no oysters or shrimp are coming from the Gulf right now.

7/12/2010 9:33:35 AM

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"also if youre eating a raw oyster in july then you deserve to get a lil oil in there "

there, fixed it for you

7/12/2010 9:35:24 AM

^ uh...why? did an oyster rape your mom or are you just vehemently against raw oysters?

7/12/2010 10:10:22 AM

I hate them


big salty boogers

7/12/2010 10:13:37 AM

you don't eat your boogers?

7/12/2010 10:16:02 AM

7/12/2010 10:20:15 AM

couldn't have happened at a finer establishment, Vinnie's is the poster child of lake-living shithole restaraunts

7/12/2010 10:37:44 AM

<3

7/12/2010 10:38:22 AM

snot boogie?

7/12/2010 10:45:41 AM

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"because the dumb ass didn't realize that the oysters didn't come from the Gulf, they came from Thailand. no oysters or shrimp are coming from the Gulf right now."

- you're crazy man. Over 40% of gulf coast oyster grounds are still open. With the Atlantic oyster season currently closed, the majority are still coming from the Gulf.

7/12/2010 12:47:58 PM

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"^^ Oysters are washed before you steam them. The outsides are cleaned, but inside the shell remains untouched. Oysters are also one of the first organisms to filter toxins out of the water. Why is it so hard to believe that oil ended up in these oysters?"

This implies that either the restaurant or someone in the supply chain thought they could wash oil off oysters and sell them to customers. That would be a great piece of controversy for us to mull over, but the more likely scenario is that he put it there like the finger lady from Wendy's a few years back.

7/12/2010 12:55:14 PM