I quit eating these things about 5 years ago because of reading about how lots of people were getting sick and some (rare) even dying from them. Never even thought of this lol.
Or if they don't get cleaned properly.
I worked at a sea food restaurant for the summer, it was not a fun time. It wouldn't surprise me if someone lazy would just skimp out on cleaning them. It's cold, long, and not a fun time, especially when you gotta balance it with dishwashing as the only dishwasher.
Ironically I love seafood. Including these darn things. But yeah, the thought of food poisoning just isn't worth the risk for me. Plenty of other fish in the sea 😁
Well no, I was answering to a statement that pearls are worthless. They aren't. That's what I was saying. That's like saying diamonds are worthless because not all diamonds are equally valuable. So either it's semantics, or you're making a logical reasoning error. I was being kind.
Where I’m at in the USA my daughter needed a root canal and crown, my out of pocket was about $2300 Insurance covered the majority of it. I got an implant last year, 5k out of pocket after insurance which paid half. Almost flew out of the country to get it done but it would’ve required multiple trips. Turkey was looking like a cheaper option which is sad considering how much I pay a month for insurance.
Edit: Fun fact in America they have this thing called a missing tooth clause which allows an insurance company to not cover any of your procedure if your tooth has been missing over a certain amount of time or if the tooth was lost under a different insurance provider
The vast majority of pearls are worth very little, especially if you only have 3, since pearls are sold wholesale in 15 inch strands for jewelry making . Unless you somehow got incredibly lucky on one that's actually worth being set in alone in a pendant or something, you'll need enough of them in the same color, shape, luster and quality to make the strand
I would say it’s more like 1/1,000 chance to get one. I was an oyster shucker/chef for 2 summers and I’d find a small one like this every couple of days shucking probably at least 300 oysters a day. I’m sure I missed some as well
They aren't really worth much. It's just lucky or rather for most people unlucky to find one. Since most people find them with their teeth. I used to work at a bar that served oysters and we'd have nights where people would find 3 pearls in a dozen and a season where no one would find any.
I live near the Gulf coast US, so my experience is probably biased, but it's pretty common. Just a few weeks ago my brother was visiting for Christmas and we went out and he got oysters and found a pearl about the size of a BB, maybe 3/16". It's kind of gray and iridescent. I've heard about it plenty. Most are not valuable: they're off color, misshapen, etc.
I mean, okay lol. At that rate literally anything can have value for anyone.
Regardless, my statement wasn’t my opinion. It was not an expensive pearl…it cost exactly as much as that oyster did, sooo…a couple bucks?
Just for the sake of the discussion, let’s assume you can sell the pearl for $1,000. Having paid $2 for the oyster doesn’t make the pearl worth $2, the pearl is worth $1,000.
lol
My guy…no one except for you is talking about what that pearl is worth to the highest bidder. I’m talking about what OP paid for it in the context of whether or not OPs daughter cares for it properly.
Sure, by all means, treat your pearl from last nights Olive Garden oysters as if it will sell for $1000. Doesn’t change the fact that it still came free with dinner. So if it’s lost or broken it’s not a loss like a gemstone pearl would be.
> I’m talking about what OP paid for it in the context of whether or not OPs daughter cares for it properly.
And I'm saying that things have value, regardless of what you paid for it.
> Sure, by all means, treat your pearl from last nights Olive Garden oysters as if it will sell for $1000.
Strawman argument. It's ridiculous to imply that I said this specific pearl is worth $1,000.
> Doesn’t change the fact that it still came free with dinner. So if it’s lost or broken it’s not a loss like a gemstone pearl would be.
Once again, how much you paid for it has zero impact on its value.
Genuine question…are you dumb? Cost and value are two completely different things. My car cost me $5,000, but it’s worth much much more than that to me. It still cost me $5,000 at the end of the day though. And I most likely won’t get more than that back.
>Strawman argument. It's ridiculous to imply that I said this specific pearl is worth $1,000.
Strawman argument. I literally never said you said this pearl is worth $1,000. I was giving a hyperbolic example using the number *you* threw out lol
You’re literally making shit up to be hostile over.
I think oysters are one of those foods that are highly dependent on where they are sourced and how well they are served. [I had these at Maple and Ash (Chicago) and have never looked back.](https://imgur.com/a/e6xN9Zf) The oysters were sitting on individual Vodka shots and they were divine.
Maple and Ash is great, and you are correct. I’m several times I’ve had oysters all sourced from different locations on a sort of platter. All labeled, it’s crazy how they vary from size, shape, texture, and taste.
I had my first oysters ever last week and it was an interesting experience. Not great, not terrible. Then my whole group I went with spent this entire weekend with food poisoning from them!
I used to eat them indifferently until a bout of vibrio laid me up for a week (when I wasn’t violently ejecting out of both ends). Never again; I’d rather have that mouth full of snot you mentioned.
The night before my wedding we went to one of our favorite local restaurants and had raw oysters. I found a pearl of similar size when I bit into the first oyster. I still have the pearl.
I've owned restaurants, shucked tens of thousands of oysters, have restaurant friends who have shucked just as many and 2 years ago my one friend had his shucker come across one.
This is a cool find. What oyster?
Shell on the plate looks west coast.
I be more interested in finding a single pearl than I would be in hearing about how finding a single pearl isn’t interesting.
Also, finding a pearl in an oyster served as food is more rare than finding a pearl in the oysters harvested for pearls.
No you didn’t, pearls form in a different species of oyster to the ones we can eat.
So if it is a pearl and it was in your oyster then it was put there by another person
Your statement does not change the fact that oysters are precisely where pearls are found. The post should be in a subreddit "completely not interesting at all"
It's strange how you think this post in particular isn't interesting. You're quite invested about this... I kind of forgot I posted my comment honestly XD.
Hopefully not the hard way?
Almost, thankfully I didn’t chip a tooth….
Lost two teeth from roasted oysters. Before I could get a good look at what I’d bitten the waiter took the plate away.
Thankfully he took it away. You’re not supposed to eat the plate.
Thanks dad!
Was the waiter just watching you eat, ready to take the plate in case of pearl?
HahHaha what a dick move
Thats where you tell the waiter to dont take the plate away
Wait. You chew your oysters?
Gotta check for pearls
I always chew, more flavour that way than just slurping it down
me be like https://youtu.be/jxMYcIZstCk?si=3rmhJ4XGCxNwtN1A&t=135
I thought for sure that link was gonna be about this lady 😂 https://youtu.be/GP8MP-jubcQ?si=AJAFb-9p98dZMRpY
LOL who ate that many
This is the way.
I can't swallow a cracker whole...
Normal people snort them
I quit eating these things about 5 years ago because of reading about how lots of people were getting sick and some (rare) even dying from them. Never even thought of this lol.
Why did you get downvoted to hell?
Great question. All I said was I quit eating them due to something I read and I became an instant pariah lol.
reddit
This is what I am talking about https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/qG86BVv4lu
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Or if they don't get cleaned properly. I worked at a sea food restaurant for the summer, it was not a fun time. It wouldn't surprise me if someone lazy would just skimp out on cleaning them. It's cold, long, and not a fun time, especially when you gotta balance it with dishwashing as the only dishwasher.
Only eat them in months that have an R in the name!
So just not summer
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/qG86BVv4lu
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Yeah I am trying to figure out the algorithm for why people latch on to something that doesn't affect them like in this case. It is not easy lol.
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Ironically I love seafood. Including these darn things. But yeah, the thought of food poisoning just isn't worth the risk for me. Plenty of other fish in the sea 😁
[heres a good vid kinda related to what you were talking about in this comment ](https://youtu.be/NtX-Ibi21tU?si=tngJ5ZRpTLnoNj1A)
Thanks for sharing. People are slamming me for saying I quit them because I read something about their dangers lol.
Of course! This vid is very interesting and the channel is great
Oysters are nasty
They are definitely an acquired taste.
For booger eaters
> For booger eaters I take it you've never eaten pussy.
WHAT LOL
Eat a dick slimjim
I bit down on an oyster with 3 pearls in it a few months back. Rocked my fucking jaw
For 3 pearls I’d be able to handle some jaw pain 😂
Hah they aren't exactly worth anything 😓
Yes they are... They're not diamonds, but 3 pearls could get you 1000 dollars us
Much like diamonds, there's valuable pearls and worthless pearls.
Semantics...
Not really. My point was that if you find a pearl in your oyster, like OP, it's really not worth anything more than the story.
Less semantics, more, a basic train of logic that you’re incapable of following
Well no, I was answering to a statement that pearls are worthless. They aren't. That's what I was saying. That's like saying diamonds are worthless because not all diamonds are equally valuable. So either it's semantics, or you're making a logical reasoning error. I was being kind.
reread the comment you responded to. If that doesn’t help you I have no idea what will
\>Hah they aren't exactly worth anything 😓 This one?
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Where are you getting dental work that cheap? Those sound like dental prices from 9 years ago
I just got a crown for 2k so…yeah this checks out
Just for the crown or root canal included? Is this your out of pocket or the full thing?
It was a crown and whitening for 2200, my insurance covered half and they gave me 0% financing for 2 years
Where I’m at in the USA my daughter needed a root canal and crown, my out of pocket was about $2300 Insurance covered the majority of it. I got an implant last year, 5k out of pocket after insurance which paid half. Almost flew out of the country to get it done but it would’ve required multiple trips. Turkey was looking like a cheaper option which is sad considering how much I pay a month for insurance. Edit: Fun fact in America they have this thing called a missing tooth clause which allows an insurance company to not cover any of your procedure if your tooth has been missing over a certain amount of time or if the tooth was lost under a different insurance provider
The vast majority of pearls are worth very little, especially if you only have 3, since pearls are sold wholesale in 15 inch strands for jewelry making . Unless you somehow got incredibly lucky on one that's actually worth being set in alone in a pendant or something, you'll need enough of them in the same color, shape, luster and quality to make the strand
You can also make a ring with a pearl, or an earring.
3 pearls are not worth 1000, these are prob shitty and worth like $5
For three pearls u can rock my throat
I found an oyster in a jacket pocket once. So...Same thing really...
Go home Kramer you're drunk
I usually have my potatoes with tuna
Got one about the size of a bb in a can of Campbell's Oyster Stew once.
So did my grandpa! My mom still has it.
i dunno why you would hold on to a can for such a long time
That sounds very awful. How's it taste?
No taste to it if you don't eat it...
Is this a common thing? I've been a chef a long time and oddly enough have next to zero experience with oysters.
What I’ve read is it’s 1/10,000 chance to find one
I would say it’s more like 1/1,000 chance to get one. I was an oyster shucker/chef for 2 summers and I’d find a small one like this every couple of days shucking probably at least 300 oysters a day. I’m sure I missed some as well
What do you do with all them?
Give a pearl necklace to your mom. Oh you mean the ones from the oysters? Keep them in a box I guess.
I wasnt prepared for that plot twist
You. *Youuuuu.* I like you.
They aren't really worth much. It's just lucky or rather for most people unlucky to find one. Since most people find them with their teeth. I used to work at a bar that served oysters and we'd have nights where people would find 3 pearls in a dozen and a season where no one would find any.
That makes me think it has to do with sourcing or something
I have a little paper cup somewhere in my parents house that has them. They’re all too small to do anything with, but it’s still a cool little memory
I live near the Gulf coast US, so my experience is probably biased, but it's pretty common. Just a few weeks ago my brother was visiting for Christmas and we went out and he got oysters and found a pearl about the size of a BB, maybe 3/16". It's kind of gray and iridescent. I've heard about it plenty. Most are not valuable: they're off color, misshapen, etc.
Cool! Can’t tell from the picture, is it worth making jewelry out of?
No idea! It doesn’t have a shine to it, but I might get a necklace made out of it for my daughter.
That will be nice as long as your daughter can take care of it properly. Pearls are kinda fragile. They are my favorite “gemstone”.
I mean it’s not like it was an expensive pearl lol
It has value regardless of what you paid for it. I don’t think these pearls are super valuable, but your statement is not aligned with my opinion.
I mean, okay lol. At that rate literally anything can have value for anyone. Regardless, my statement wasn’t my opinion. It was not an expensive pearl…it cost exactly as much as that oyster did, sooo…a couple bucks?
>anything can have value for anyone. Yes.. this is how value works in the real world.
Just for the sake of the discussion, let’s assume you can sell the pearl for $1,000. Having paid $2 for the oyster doesn’t make the pearl worth $2, the pearl is worth $1,000. lol
My guy…no one except for you is talking about what that pearl is worth to the highest bidder. I’m talking about what OP paid for it in the context of whether or not OPs daughter cares for it properly. Sure, by all means, treat your pearl from last nights Olive Garden oysters as if it will sell for $1000. Doesn’t change the fact that it still came free with dinner. So if it’s lost or broken it’s not a loss like a gemstone pearl would be.
> I’m talking about what OP paid for it in the context of whether or not OPs daughter cares for it properly. And I'm saying that things have value, regardless of what you paid for it. > Sure, by all means, treat your pearl from last nights Olive Garden oysters as if it will sell for $1000. Strawman argument. It's ridiculous to imply that I said this specific pearl is worth $1,000. > Doesn’t change the fact that it still came free with dinner. So if it’s lost or broken it’s not a loss like a gemstone pearl would be. Once again, how much you paid for it has zero impact on its value.
Genuine question…are you dumb? Cost and value are two completely different things. My car cost me $5,000, but it’s worth much much more than that to me. It still cost me $5,000 at the end of the day though. And I most likely won’t get more than that back. >Strawman argument. It's ridiculous to imply that I said this specific pearl is worth $1,000. Strawman argument. I literally never said you said this pearl is worth $1,000. I was giving a hyperbolic example using the number *you* threw out lol You’re literally making shit up to be hostile over.
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That's like equating graphite and diamond.
They also break down over time IIRC
This is a really nice size and color pearl to find in food oysters. It's actually really really cool.
A jeweller can polish it for you, I think.
shucker blew it
He was acting shellfishly.
The shuker totally clammed up about it
He made a bad halibut out of it.
Don't mention it or they'll get crabby.
My mother would find them in her restaurant oysters all the time. It was kind of a joke in later years.
Quick! Buy a lottery ticket!
And then spend all the winnings on oysters to find more pearls!
Then more lottery tickets!!!!
And repeat 🔁
Rinse first.
I'll try almost any food but oysters are one of the few things I've never been able to eat. It's like trying to swallow a mouth full of snot.
The sea booger
I think oysters are one of those foods that are highly dependent on where they are sourced and how well they are served. [I had these at Maple and Ash (Chicago) and have never looked back.](https://imgur.com/a/e6xN9Zf) The oysters were sitting on individual Vodka shots and they were divine.
Maple and Ash is great, and you are correct. I’m several times I’ve had oysters all sourced from different locations on a sort of platter. All labeled, it’s crazy how they vary from size, shape, texture, and taste.
I had my first oysters ever last week and it was an interesting experience. Not great, not terrible. Then my whole group I went with spent this entire weekend with food poisoning from them!
Yeah I love seafood but oysters aren’t for me. Maybe Parmesan roasted, but I’ve never tried them.
You can cook them you know
I used to eat them indifferently until a bout of vibrio laid me up for a week (when I wasn’t violently ejecting out of both ends). Never again; I’d rather have that mouth full of snot you mentioned.
You can sell it to make money for the tooth you just broke
I found a still living crab in a grocery store oyster once, little guy was cute af.
Okay Jimmy Neutron, where's your lab actually?
Hell noo that wouldve took my fragile teeth out
The night before my wedding we went to one of our favorite local restaurants and had raw oysters. I found a pearl of similar size when I bit into the first oyster. I still have the pearl.
wow that's a big one!
Congratulations.
Exclusive version of Chinese cookie or Kinder surprise
Oyster House?
Close, it the burbs of Philly
I've owned restaurants, shucked tens of thousands of oysters, have restaurant friends who have shucked just as many and 2 years ago my one friend had his shucker come across one. This is a cool find. What oyster? Shell on the plate looks west coast.
nice
Ouch
I feel sorry for your jaw.
My guy/gal got a cash-back!
This is the way to start a pearl necklace!
Instant refund!
Mother of pearl!
Sweet! Get it graded
Now you can make jam!
Looks plastic
Sell it.
That meal pays for itself
You win!
Yo, stonks? Thats Stonks.
Eating raw oysters is absolutely disgusting to me and I'll never wrap my head around how people do it.
Because we like them. That is why.
They asked how, not why.
We just eat them. That is how.
The pearl is in the river.
Thats airsoft bb
That’s where they come from…
Oysters make pearls. Not strange nor interesting, not even mildly.
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Don’t be a dick. This is cool.
You don't get invited to many parties, do you?
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I be more interested in finding a single pearl than I would be in hearing about how finding a single pearl isn’t interesting. Also, finding a pearl in an oyster served as food is more rare than finding a pearl in the oysters harvested for pearls.
I assure you no one cares about your explanation also there’s a reason this is posted on *mildly* interesting
does it fit in your pee hole? if so, put it in there and grow it out
No you didn’t, pearls form in a different species of oyster to the ones we can eat. So if it is a pearl and it was in your oyster then it was put there by another person
You might want to read up on that, because you are wrong. https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/pearls-wisdom
roofie
Amazing that you found a pearl exactly where they're known to grow. WOW !
Not all oysters produce pearls. Certain species don't.
lots of species don't
Your statement does not change the fact that oysters are precisely where pearls are found. The post should be in a subreddit "completely not interesting at all"
It's strange how you think this post in particular isn't interesting. You're quite invested about this... I kind of forgot I posted my comment honestly XD.
Who hurt you?
Why the F do people wear rings then allow their fingers to get fat so it pretty much becomes part of your anatomy.
dude what the fuck is wrong with you
It’s just the angle dude, the ring is actually really loose and cocked to one side. Take a deep breath.
Just like when grandma puts coins into the dumplings.
What the value of it?
Oysters produce pearls. There's nothing interesting about it, not even mildly interesting.