MM: Lakeside Cityhood Bill Tabled, Kimball Oysters, and Streetcar Pop-Up Vendors Announced
Decatur Metro | March 13, 2014 | 10:52 am
- Lakeside cityhood bill tabled [WABE]
- Southeast Oyster Symposium at Kimball House [AJC]
- Avondale Master Plan meeting today [Decaturish]
- For DHS student,blacksmithing no longer a thing of the past [3ten]
- Dog found near Clyde Shepard Nature Preserve [MANA]
- Empty old Ben & Jerry’s space in Va-Hi will soon be brought back to life [Curbed]
- Wind topples trees, power lines around ATL [AJC]
- Criminal Records, Indie Craft Experience to set up pop-up shops along streetcar line [CL]
I’m with J_T on this one. Oysters = sea snot.
I realize this is blasphemy to oyster lovers, but blech. Icky. Gross.
(Head down, waiting for the fallout)
No flames. I just feel sorry for you. A really good oyster is one of the supreme culinary delights. KH rocks!
Depends on whether they are cooked or not. Fried or baked oysters are delicious. But uncooked shellfish doesn’t feel dead enough to me. Not to mention the amazing parasites they can harbor. Things that are more than detectable once they grow in the human host!
“uncooked shellfish doesn’t feel dead enough to me. ” — A fresh oyster served raw on the half-shell was alive until it was shucked (the shell was opened). My daddy always said an oyster wasn’t fresh enough unless it wiggled going down your throat. That’s why the optimum situation is to shuck them yourself or sit at the oyster bar and watch as they are shucked & handed to you a half-dozen at a time. As for parasites…I am more comfortable eating raw seafood that’s wild-caught, than farm-raised salmon. Mostly, I try not to think about tiny bugs, the same way I can’t afford to fixate on mercury in big fish, or antibiotics and hormones in meat, poultry and dairy products.
Plus, according to various stories that have popped up in the media this week , your internal, gut-bacteria ecosystem can be a magical, wondrous thing.
Parasites are not necessarily little, especially worms. Just sayin’.
I am not against other people eating raw oysters. Just wanted to make sure that JT and Ammunition Size knew that fried and baked are delicious options for the squeamish.
Nope. Frying or baking yucky seafood doesn’t change the fact that it’s yucky seafood!
Parasites that I can see and avoid don’t worry me so much. (And worms on oyster shells are just that — although they do indicate careless/ignorant handling.)
I do not believe in encouraging people who dislike shellfish to try eating them prepared different ways. Just leave those guys to their chicken wings, it means more oysters for the rest of us!
Exactly! And I wish you yucky seafood eaters would stick to your yucky seafood and leave my wings alone. Those suckers are getting to be almost as expensive as oysters nowadays!
There are oysters and then there are oysters.Subjecting a Massachusetts Island Creek or an Oregon Willapa Kumamoto to heat — even Tabasco — would be an unforgivable sin.
Strongly agree.
you know if you listen hard enough you can hear them cry when you bite into them (yum!!!!) just a little lemon and hot sauce, oysters oysters oysters!!
That is something like the 50th time there’s been an oyster debate on this website. It’s getting deBoring.
Well aren’t you just a ray of sunshine today.
Seating for one in the curmudgeon section!
Hey, I’m on your side here. Can’t stand the slimy little snots.
As opposed to bike lanes, road diets, trees, Mexican food, chicken wings, Decatur school start times, Decatur school vacation schedules, and whether or not scanning license plates on Covington Highway is a productive use of Avondale police resources… none of which ever gets old.
Fair point, but you left out the Greeks and their taste in tile.
How could I?!
Turning to things only slightly less slimy…it looks like the last days of this legislative session are either going to see the quashing of any new cities in DeKalb this year or set the stage for two. Lakeside and Tucker have apparently worked out their differences and devised a new map–no City of Briarcliff included. You can find the map on AJC and elsewhere. Slurp.
Possibly because I don’t have a dog in this fight any more (having moved back to the heart of Atlanta), but honestly, the thing that bugs me the most about these aspiring municipalities is their complete and utter lack of imagination in naming themselves.
Well, at least the name “Tucker” has a long history that denotes a long-in-existence community. As far as I know, Lakeside is just the name of a high school.
Well, you are wrong. Lakeside is the high school but also a highly educated, well to do area that keeps up its houses and is fed up with the second class treatment of northern DeKalb by the county government.
Well, you might be right about all that, but it’s still a dumb, boring name
Not to mention inappropriate–for the town and the high school. Neither are sitting at the edge of a true lake with wind-whipped waves lapping at their shores.
There is a lake-Echo Lake. And there are no natural lakes in Georgia.
But they are not lake-side. Just lake-near.
“Northlake” would be better in terms of name recognition, not to mention how pivotal Northlake Mall’s inclusion is to the project.
LakeNear, GA sounds very… Georgia-ish
I think the student studying blacksmithing is awesome! Everyone should be able to fashion a nice pair of wedding bands from a wall sconce in 20 minutes.