You have to wonder

[squatting dog]

 

[hollydolly]

..True...and who decided it would be a good idea to drink what comes out of the udder of a cow....

 

[tbeltrans]

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There is a claim made that oysters are supposed to be an aphrodisiac.

My suspicion (not fact) is that this rumor was started by somebody who had caught a whole pile of oysters and was trying to figure out what to do with them. Selling them seemed a good idea, so a sales pitch was invented and people fell for it.

I have seen the same psychology at work by folks selling guitars. An old guitar is not "old", it is "vintage" and they just don't build them like they used to (never mind improved construction techniques and tools, as well as much higher quality consistency). A certain brand's "golden years" are not the current years after the company has gotten really good at building them for years and years as they constantly find better ways to do so, but instead suspiciously the year of the guitar the guy is trying to sell.

Maybe the same thing happens with cars and just about anything else except technology with its built-in obsolescence long before the thing is no longer functional.

Maybe we are just gullible, or maybe we actually LIKE to be taken in.

Tony

 

[Gary O']

and who decided it would be a good idea to drink what comes out of the udder of a cow...

Reminds me of a poster I made a few decades ago




.....and, along those lines;

 

[Giantsfan1954]

There is a claim made that oysters are supposed to be an aphrodisiac.

My suspicion (not fact) is that this rumor was started by somebody who had caught a whole pile of oysters and was trying to figure out what to do with them. Selling them seemed a good idea, so a sales pitch was invented and people fell for it.

I have seen the same psychology at work by folks selling guitars. An old guitar is not "old", it is "vintage" and they just don't build them like they used to (never mind improved construction techniques and tools, as well as much higher quality consistency). A certain brand's "golden years" are not the current years after the company has gotten really good at building them for years and years as they constantly find better ways to do so, but instead suspiciously the year of the guitar the guy is trying to sell.

Maybe the same thing happens with cars and just about anything else except technology with its built-in obsolescence long before the thing is no longer functional.

Maybe we are just gullible, or maybe we actually LIKE to be taken in.

Tony

Totally agree, everything that’s old isn’t an antique!

 

[Gaer]

lobsters?
snails?
crabs?
octopus?
Must have taken some brave souls.

 

[RadishRose]

lobsters?
snails?
crabs?
octopus?
Must have taken some brave souls.

I've eaten all of these. Only one I didn't like was the snails.

 

[Ruthanne]

I've never had an oyster and don't even want to try one. And that is weird that someone wanted to try a cow's udder--heck, they are for baby cows or calves.

 

[Lethe200]

Quote by Jonathan Swift: “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”