134-Year-Old Oyster House Shucks Last Oyster (New Orleans)

[kpete]

Run time: 02:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzIhmIiU1Pc   Posted on YouTube: June 11, 2010 By YouTube Member: AssociatedPress Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: June 11, 2010 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 831

 
134 Years
by Crashing Vor
Fri Jun 11, 2010 at 04:59:56 AM PDT

Since oil hell broke loose, you have probably read or heard the name Sunseri. Al and Sal Sunseri, co-owners of P&J Oyster Company, have been interviewed by so many reporters, it's a wonder they've been able to keep shucking bivalves.

Yesterday, they made a heartbreaking announcement: free time isn't going to be a problem. The house has stopped shucking after 134 years.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/11/874995/-134-Years

[AnneD]

1. We are blessed....

we still have oysters in Texas.:9

It is hard for me to imagine a life without Gulf seafood. It has a unique flavour. My condolences to NOLA.

[E_Olenska]

2. Shucking the last oysters

I'm proud to call New Orleans my home. I have lived here for the better part of 60 years. P&J Oysters has always been my favorite oyster vendor. We would buy their fabulous oysters by the sack! The Sunseri family are wonderful people. So, when I saw this video last night, it reduced me to tears. I thought the other man-made disaster - the failure of the Corps of Engineers levees - was hard to endure. (I lost my beautiful home in the Lakeview section, and I am blessed that I have restored my home and moved back.) But this new man-made destruction is more than I can bear. BP should be held accountable for what they have wrought, but I have a terrible feeling that our "gummint" will not really do a damned thing. They get so much money from corporations, and they march to their tune, so they'll probably do what they usually do....drag their feet and equivocate. What else could we expected from such bought-out, sold-out, soul-less traitors?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. What a great unspeakable tragedy this is.

The South, and especially New Orleans, is about valuing tradition and history.

Nothing seems sacrosanct anymore, does it?

[PassingFair]

4. I'm SO sorry!

:hug:

Welcome to DU, I visited New Orleans for the first time last year,
and I will never forget how magical it was.

Am I a BAD person for wishing that it washes up in Florida
instead of Louisiana?