PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS SMITTEN WITH BIVALVES. Pickled oysters and oyster stew were on the menu for his inaugural ball on Mar 6, 1865.
LOVE ON THE HALF SHELL.
The word "aphrodisiac", a stimulant to love, has a direct connection to oysters. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, was born in the sea foam on an oyster shell, and soon after gave birth to Eros.
15 MILLION YEARS AND GOING STRONG.
Oysters have been around for 15 million years. In some places their fossilized shells are 50 feet thick.
THE ART OF OYSTER SHUCKING.
There has not yet been an oyster opening device invented that can out-perform the simple oyster knife in the hands of a skilled human oyster shucker.