JKD Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 I know there's lots on here who enjoy their food, so thought I'd ask about our coastal shellfish of the mollusc variety. As a kid my brother and I used to go on day trips with our Nan to the seaside,,,, south Kent to be exact. I remember collecting small buckets of cockles and winkles with the odd whelk, then getting back to Nan's house to rinse a cook our collection, then eat a few, picking them out of their shells with pins. Lovely times and lovely memories 🙂 Fast forward a few years and I went on a day trip to France with my school. Lunch was a choice of two meals,,,, myself and a few others got given a seafood platter. I remember we all looked at it with dread, but still tucked in until,,,,,, some of it moved !!! 😲 On the ferry back across the channel all those that had the seafood, and others because it was a bit choppy, were quite violently ill 🤢🤮 It was very unpleasant and left me with some distinct memories and a total of dislike of anything with a shell that comes from the sea, the exception being prawns 😋 So, while watching a food programme on the telly with a shellfish theme served with cod, why do I suddenly have a craving to try these once more ?! I have had clams once,,,, boring ! I liked the look of some razor clams, again on a food programme, but never had the bottle to try them. Anyone else had a complete U-turn in their culinary tastes,,,, after 50 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 22 minutes ago, JKD said: I know there's lots on here who enjoy their food, so thought I'd ask about our coastal shellfish of the mollusc variety. As a kid my brother and I used to go on day trips with our Nan to the seaside,,,, south Kent to be exact. I remember collecting small buckets of cockles and winkles with the odd whelk, then getting back to Nan's house to rinse a cook our collection, then eat a few, picking them out of their shells with pins. Lovely times and lovely memories 🙂 Fast forward a few years and I went on a day trip to France with my school. Lunch was a choice of two meals,,,, myself and a few others got given a seafood platter. I remember we all looked at it with dread, but still tucked in until,,,,,, some of it moved !!! 😲 On the ferry back across the channel all those that had the seafood, and others because it was a bit choppy, were quite violently ill 🤢🤮 It was very unpleasant and left me with some distinct memories and a total of dislike of anything with a shell that comes from the sea, the exception being prawns 😋 So, while watching a food programme on the telly with a shellfish theme served with cod, why do I suddenly have a craving to try these once more ?! I have had clams once,,,, boring ! I liked the look of some razor clams, again on a food programme, but never had the bottle to try them. Anyone else had a complete U-turn in their culinary tastes,,,, after 50 years yes .............for me it is corned beef........until about 5 years ago i thought it was worse than tinned dog food and the smell really put me off........... now i totally love it....always have a tin in the cupboard..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 I eat lots of muscles and love raw oysters with lemon and tobasco sauce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 37 minutes ago, ditchman said: cockles and winkles with the odd whelk As a young teenager I used to make my summer "spends" collecting sacks full in Langstone Harbour.. But like all seafood I went off it as we had it so often. Never got the taste for oysters unless in a stew with beef. Still can't see the thing with Bass, we ate it a lot as we could not give it away let alone sell it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted February 13, 2023 Report Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) If you are prone to gout, be careful with shellfish seafood .......... Edited February 13, 2023 by JohnfromUK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 On 12/02/2023 at 12:45, ditchman said: yes .............for me it is corned beef........until about 5 years ago i thought it was worse than tinned dog food and the smell really put me off........... now i totally love it....always have a tin in the cupboard..... Not eaten corned beef since the typhoid outbreak in the 60s. Probably no problem to eat it now though Might just give it a go. On 12/02/2023 at 12:21, JKD said: I know there's lots on here who enjoy their food, so thought I'd ask about our coastal shellfish of the mollusc variety. As a kid my brother and I used to go on day trips with our Nan to the seaside,,,, south Kent to be exact. I remember collecting small buckets of cockles and winkles with the odd whelk, then getting back to Nan's house to rinse a cook our collection, then eat a few, picking them out of their shells with pins. Lovely times and lovely memories 🙂 Fast forward a few years and I went on a day trip to France with my school. Lunch was a choice of two meals,,,, myself and a few others got given a seafood platter. I remember we all looked at it with dread, but still tucked in until,,,,,, some of it moved !!! 😲 On the ferry back across the channel all those that had the seafood, and others because it was a bit choppy, were quite violently ill 🤢🤮 It was very unpleasant and left me with some distinct memories and a total of dislike of anything with a shell that comes from the sea, the exception being prawns 😋 So, while watching a food programme on the telly with a shellfish theme served with cod, why do I suddenly have a craving to try these once more ?! I have had clams once,,,, boring ! I liked the look of some razor clams, again on a food programme, but never had the bottle to try them. Anyone else had a complete U-turn in their culinary tastes,,,, after 50 years Living a few yards from the sea as a kid it was my brother and my job on a Sunday to go down at low tide with our home made shrimp nets to get a load of shrimps for Sunday tea. I also used to go cockling with a garden rake and remember eating them raw !! Nowadays I just cannot stomach any of the molluscs i.e. cockles, mussels, winkles etc. but love the crustaceans , crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, etc. Also, living fairly near Whitstable famous for its oysters, these I just cannot abide having been violently sick after a drinking session ending up with an oyster platter. I`m sure that it wasn`t the beer . Just as an aside, I was taught never to buy whelks from a Mohel OB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 Oi veh! I do love oysters and we used to enjoy the Whitstable Oyster Festival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) Had a dodgy oyster in Burnham on crouch, gave me the squits for days, my favourite is Mussels, make sure they close when tapped if not discard, fry some onion, garlic, add wine and cook until they are open, crusty bread. delicious. I sell and eat a lot of seafood in the summer. pic of a recent platter Edited February 17, 2023 by islandgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, islandgun said: Had a dodgy oyster in Burnham on crouch, gave me the squits for days, my favourite is Mussels, make sure they close when tapped if not discard, fry some onion, garlic, add wine and cook until they are open, crusty bread. delicious. I sell and eat a lot of seafood in the summer. pic of a recent platter That look very nice Ig , and I am sure it taste as nice as it look . I have mentioned it before when my ole grand father who is long gone used to prepare the shellfish for the visitors to enjoy down the sea front , the Cockles were already de shelled and in little White nets these were left in salt water before being sold on , maybe this was done so they tasted of the sea or keep them fresh ? , the Whelks were in the shells and a little two prong fork would whip then out and a quick movement with the hand would remove the worm , we liked the small ones the best and they tasted like Almonds , the bigger ones were alright but needed a lot of chewing , as we didn't pay for them then we had no right to complain Oysters again were alright but nothing to write home about , these were split open at the joint in the shell then cut it away from the shell , a sprinkle of Black pepper along with a drop of vinegar and it was ready to swallow in one go , or break it open with your tongue before you swallowed it . Now I very rarely eat one , but still like a bowl of shell fish when we have a run up to Cromer and we always come home with a fresh Crab from the well known Davis family in Garden St . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samboy Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 I used to love a bit of seafood but after suffering from gout i've been advised not to eat seafood any more 😭. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 eating an oyster is like swallowing a cold gobbit of somone elses phlem/snot who has a heavy cold..............deprived...i tell you ..deprived.....i ate an oyster once ...it went down ...and then came straight back up.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 9 minutes ago, ditchman said: eating an oyster is like swallowing a cold gobbit of somone elses phlem/snot who has a heavy cold..............deprived...i tell you ..deprived.....i ate an oyster once ...it went down ...and then came straight back up.... They used to recon they were good for your sex life , maybe I stopped eating them before I should had done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, marsh man said: That look very nice Ig , and I am sure it taste as nice as it look . I have mentioned it before when my ole grand father who is long gone used to prepare the shellfish for the visitors to enjoy down the sea front , the Cockles were already de shelled and in little White nets these were left in salt water before being sold on , maybe this was done so they tasted of the sea or keep them fresh ? , the Whelks were in the shells and a little two prong fork would whip then out and a quick movement with the hand would remove the worm , we liked the small ones the best and they tasted like Almonds , the bigger ones were alright but needed a lot of chewing , as we didn't pay for them then we had no right to complain Oysters again were alright but nothing to write home about , these were split open at the joint in the shell then cut it away from the shell , a sprinkle of Black pepper along with a drop of vinegar and it was ready to swallow in one go , or break it open with your tongue before you swallowed it . Now I very rarely eat one , but still like a bowl of shell fish when we have a run up to Cromer and we always come home with a fresh Crab from the well known Davis family in Garden St . Ah Cromer crab, the first crab I tasted as a kid, I remember a house with an opening and a big tub with boiling water. you would see them lower the crab into the tub, caught in the morning sold the same day, did a few shifts on a whelk boat from Brancaster staithe with a man called Wit, couldn't stomach whelks though, hand harvested commercial mussel beds there also. As a kid on Sundays me and my dad would have a root around blackwater estuary for winkles, still like them, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted February 18, 2023 Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 On 12/02/2023 at 12:45, ditchman said: yes .............for me it is corned beef........until about 5 years ago i thought it was worse than tinned dog food and the smell really put me off........... now i totally love it....always have a tin in the cupboard..... Try it with Beetroot (from a jar) and Salad Cream in a Sandwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted February 18, 2023 Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 1 hour ago, bruno22rf said: Try it with Beetroot (from a jar) and Salad Cream in a Sandwich. That’s probably OK if you like beetroot and salad cream. I can’t abide either. I like to taste the corned beef, but it is OK with Branston pickle in the sandwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted February 18, 2023 Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 5 minutes ago, London Best said: but it is OK with Branston pickle in the sandwich I quite like a slice of corned beef in a sandwich and as accompaniments, Branston OK, piccalilli is OK, horseradish or mustard are OK, tomato and cucumber slices with a lettuce leaf and mayo are OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted February 18, 2023 Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 23 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said: I quite like a slice of corned beef in a sandwich and as accompaniments, Branston OK, piccalilli is OK, horseradish or mustard are OK, tomato and cucumber slices with a lettuce leaf and mayo are OK. i found a reciepe for Pan-yan pickle ...a few days ago....im tempted to make a batch...and add a couple of extra ingredients to a couple of jars.....Pan-pickle was the only go to pickle from the victorian times ...and unfortunatly was withdrawn in the year 2000..........the reciept was lost in a fire whilst in the possesion of premier foods .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKD Posted February 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 23 hours ago, Old Boggy said: Not eaten corned beef since the typhoid outbreak in the 60s. Probably no problem to eat it now though Might just give it a go. Living a few yards from the sea as a kid it was my brother and my job on a Sunday to go down at low tide with our home made shrimp nets to get a load of shrimps for Sunday tea. I also used to go cockling with a garden rake and remember eating them raw !! Nowadays I just cannot stomach any of the molluscs i.e. cockles, mussels, winkles etc. but love the crustaceans , crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, etc. Also, living fairly near Whitstable famous for its oysters, these I just cannot abide having been violently sick after a drinking session ending up with an oyster platter. I`m sure that it wasn`t the beer . Just as an aside, I was taught never to buy whelks from a Mohel OB Corned beef is ok but boring ! As for the seafood,,,, I love fish, prawns I adore, and have tried octopus and squid, which were great (texture I enjoyed) because of the flavours of spices/garlic added. I just can't get the shellfish cravings, until I watched those cooking programmes. But even then, I think I'd be limited with my choices. Also, it's again probably more the spices/garlic etc that I'm attracted to 😋🤭 Mussels and oysters I don't think I will ever get the cravings for,,,, include crab with those 🤢 22 hours ago, islandgun said: Had a dodgy oyster in Burnham on crouch, gave me the squits for days, my favourite is Mussels, make sure they close when tapped if not discard, fry some onion, garlic, add wine and cook until they are open, crusty bread. delicious. I sell and eat a lot of seafood in the summer. pic of a recent platter Now THAT is definitely what we had in France many years ago, and that image is making me feel 🤢🤮😂 Hang on,,,, what's that moving in the middle there ?! 🦀🦐🐙😲 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted February 18, 2023 Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 8 hours ago, London Best said: That’s probably OK if you like beetroot and salad cream. I can’t abide either. I like to taste the corned beef, but it is OK with Branston pickle in the sandwich. That's OK if you like Branston pickle!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 Some seafood I like - prawns/fish/muscles/crab but I can't stand oysters and similar. Nasty. Dad had a boat many years ago and we sailed to France, the meal was arranged by the yacht club (1st time we did the crossing so went with others) and it was a sea food platter. A few of us tried but just couldn't eat it. Mum loves Seaford and ate the lot. Literally all of it. We sailed back the next day in a force 7 gusting 8 to 9. Sick as a dog doesn't cover it.took 12 hrs I think in a 30 footer. Not dissimilar to being in a washing machine. She literally puked for the village. We never bothered again, a local cafe would do steak and chips for a couple of quid with red plonk for little more. To this day oysters etc reminds me of it and I can't stomach even trying. Every time we went (a lot) one way was good the other rough as it gets. Years later dad sold the boat and likened the experience to staying in a cold shower tearing up £20 notes. We went round the med and had fried squid at some point. Never had it before. I like it. To this day eating fried squid takes me back to 30.c sunny Greek taverns with owners smoking cigars and German blondes showering nude on the deck whilst my dad and a random yank watched and waited for mum to arrive in the dinghy. He was watching the approaching dingy with almost as much interest at these 2 blondes. I was a tender age but it's stuck with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperGoose75 Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) I love shellfish and especially Mussels. My boy loves them also. I like Oysters also like already mentioned with tobasco sauce and a squeeze of lemon. Years ago we used to work the shore in the winter months when the building trade was slack. We gathered peri winkles and kept them in sacks at home until the winkleman came around to buy them off us. I remember a group of us being at a friends house back in the early 90's and a set of decks on the go, we worked up a false appeitite '' The Munchies'' and there wasnt much to eat in the house and somone suggested boiling up some winkles. So thats what we did and picked them out with safety pins. Like little salty snots. I love a seafood chowder with fresh mussels in and have made a pot of mussels many times, classically french with white wine and garlic but sometimes with cider. A crusty loaf and you are onto a winner. Here is a photo of me having a pot of mussels on the Champs-Élysées a few years back. Edited February 23, 2023 by SuperGoose75 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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