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Igel

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14. Yeah, but it's been a long, long time.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Mar 18, 2019, 06:11 PM

Mar 2019

Lived a mile from the Chesapeake Bay. Father would pick up oysters for family use and we'd shuck them. Okay, mostly "they would shuck them"; they taught me how just because it was something I was supposed to know how to do. This was in the 1960s.

I really detest oysters. Their look, smell, taste. And shucking them.

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Pics from 1911. Have you ever shucked an oyster? [View all] underpants Mar 2019 OP

Hine's book includes 2 photos of my Sicilian grandfather as a 13-year-old working in a tblue37 Mar 2019 #1

Did your grandfather work in the mines all of his working life? nt Blue_true Mar 2019 #4

No, just as a kid and very young man. nt tblue37 Mar 2019 #5

What type of work did he do later on? Blue_true Mar 2019 #9

Black lung killed him at age 71. nt tblue37 Mar 2019 #10

Ugh underpants Mar 2019 #8

Are some of the shafts still around? nt Blue_true Mar 2019 #11

I doubt it. underpants Mar 2019 #13

Well, that would take care of the shafts. nt Blue_true Mar 2019 #15

Shucking oysters is very hard htuttle Mar 2019 #2

My maternal great grandmother was a corn husker. She died of tetanus caused by tblue37 Mar 2019 #6

Tell me about it underpants Mar 2019 #7

and the azzhat CDerekGo Mar 2019 #3

I started shucking around 8 or 9 unc70 Mar 2019 #12

Yeah, but it's been a long, long time. Igel Mar 2019 #14

Never. But could sit at the bar for hours at Awful Arthur's in Kill Devil Hills and watch the Cousin Dupree Mar 2019 #16

This is what the rethugs call the good ole days. lpbk2713 Mar 2019 #17

Never more than 2 dozen at a time Retrograde Mar 2019 #18

Yes. And you can cut yourself on both knives and shells. nolabear Mar 2019 #19

Never shucked them at a cannery but! akraven Mar 2019 #20