get your fix!:
www.capecodoyster.com - 2 dozen for 30 bucks delivered to your door the next day via ups - BEST OYSTERS YOU HAVE EVER HAD BAR NONE ANYWHERE - or a party pack for a safe celebration! Publix can suppoosedly order them for you as well anywhere there's a Publix.
you're right!: By law, a live-oyster shipment must include identification of the oysters' origin and collection date; it is illegal to discard this tag sooner than 90 days after delivery.
more data than you'd ever want to know:
Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica): Fished and farmed from Atlantic Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and represents about 80 percent of U.S. oyster production. Most are collected from the wild, but overfishing, habitat degradation, and disease have driven wild catch levels in some areas to record lows. Farmed Eastern oysters, grown using a rudimentary form of aquaculture where farmers transport oysters from nursery areas to grow-out areas, are considered a good environmental choice.
the humble atlantic oyster
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/zone/underwater_sous-marin/oyster/oyster-huitre_e.htm
excerpt:
Other organs become visible when the covering half of the mantle is removed. At the hinge end are the labial palps or lips surrounding the mouth; below are four porous, finely ridged, crescent-shaped gills, commonly called the beard. The gills function both as a respiratory and a food-collecting organ. Covering them are tiny, lashing hairs which create an incoming current of water from which food particles are filtered and oxygen absorbed.
Oysters breathe much like fish, using both gills and mantle. The mantle is lined with many small, thin-walled blood vessels which extract oxygen from the water and expel carbon dioxide. A small, three-chambered heart, lying under the adductor muscle, pumps colorless blood, with its supply of oxygen, to all parts of the body. At the same time a pair of kidneys located on the underside of the muscle purify the blood of any waste products it has collected.
Incoming food is sorted by the lips and accepted morsels pass down a narrow throat into a pouch-shaped stomach surrounded by a digestive gland. Waste passes through a long, coiled intestine to be emptied by the rectum into an exhalant chamber.
There is no way of telling male oysters from females by examining their shells. While oysters have separate sexes, they may change sex one or more times during their life span. The gonads-organs responsible for producing both eggs and sperm-surround the digestive organs and are made up of sex cells, branching tubules and connective tissue.
but they're still good!
and good for you:
http://www.starchefs.com/features/oysters/html/index.shtml
?Raw can be risky,? says Slade Rushing, one-half of the husband and wife duo that operates Jack?s Luxury Oyster Bar in New York City. ?We have to worry about the state of the environment and pollution. These things are an issue."
Dirtdaddy - interesting name 
care to explain? Just got me curious.
