- I don't know, it's got a texture of a boob honestly.
To me, personally.
Hi! I'm Ede Bell.
- Mack. - I'm Lauren.
- Ruby. - Jackie.
And this is my first time trying oysters.
- I love pretty much all seafood.
But I have not tried an oyster.
- When I think of oysters... just reminds me of the sea.
- Little tiny balls of juice.
Sorry, can I say something else? That's awful.
- When I think of oysters, I think of not wanting
to eat them.
- They don't look appetizing at all.
- My mom loves oysters. I've just never...
taken the plunge.
I don't know what drums sound like.
- They can be a bit sexual in nature. Uhhh...
But I'm interested in that, so.
- Oo! Oh, they're cuter than I thought they were going to be.
I'd date one.
- They look like brains.
- OK.
- They look like little organs.
- This looks like a sea boogie.
- I would imagine a tonsil would look kinda like an oyster.
- The sauce looks nice.
I'm not sure what it is.
- Is this salsa? Is this garlic?
- Wow, you can really smell all of this.
- All right, so the first one I'm going to try without
anything on it.
- I just need to meditate, hold on.
Ok. My chakras are aligned.
Let's do this.
- I don't like that texture.
- Wow. OK, so that was different.
I don't know if I liked it.
I feel like I'd just...ugh...
- It just tastes like saltwater.
- It's almost like mucus.
- It's like taking a pill.
- How do people do that?
- I would say it's one of those foods that really
pretty much tastes like it looks.
- I feel it. It's... It's inside me.
- When I bit into it, it didn't respond like food
should respond. It felt like it was still alive.
- It feels like when you get pummeled by a wave,
and then you accidentally swallow some seawater.
- Yea, it really feels like when you're sick and
you have like phlegm in the back of your throat,
and you're just like...
- It just felt like cold slime going down my throat.
- I think if I had hot sauce, it would be a little better.
- I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
- Should I go for a bigger guy?
- So now I'm going to try with this concoction right here.
I think it's called mayonnaise?
Mayonnaise?
- Let's see if it makes it tastes any better.
- I'm going to try adding some of the horseradish
cocktail sauce to it.
- Mignonette.
- Smells like feet. Smells like (beep).
Just doesn't smell good.
- I feel so fancy.
That was better. That was cool. That tasted like...
A little...
- That made the taste a little bit more bearable.
- It's so much better with the sauce.
- It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.
- Well, that one just tasted like cocktail sauce.
- Yea, the texture was different too,
because I think the horseradish kinda gave it a little bit more
flakiness, so that I don't taste the slimey as much.
- I actually enjoyed that one more though.
- It smells trash and i'm pretty sure my breath is
banging right now. But I could see myself
eating oysters with this sauce right here.
- So I liked that. That was good.
And now some fun facts about oysters.
- Fun facts about oysters!
- Did you know oysters have no brains
even though they look like them?
- Idiots. Losers. I even have that.
Did you know oysters filter water?
- That's amazing.
- Who needs a Brita?
- Did you know that oysters are alive up until the moment
you eat them?
- They're alive?
I ate them alive?
- So apparently, they're alive until the moment
you shuck them. And as soon as they're open
that's when they die.
So that's why you keep them as fresh as you can.
Don't shuck them until you're ready to eat them.
- Really? OK. Yea, I"m fine.
- I don't do raw stuff. I don't do nothing raw.
I'm not trying to start here.
- I didn't dislike them.
- They were worse than I'd thought they would be.
Because I heard from somebody that they don't taste like
anything, which isn't true.
- I would order them with my mom.
I think this is something that we can try together now.
She's been trying to get me to try them forever.
But, sorry mom. This is where I chose to do it instead.
I love you though. OK, she's not going to watch this.
- Maybe it'll be worth it if you got the right sauce.
I can see why people would be into it.
- I wouldn't go to a restaurant and order them.
- I think they were essentially what I thought they
would be. They're pretty gooey, kinda gross.
But i think with the right sauce, they can do wonders.
- If I was at a wedding and they were free,
I'd probably eat them.
- My final thought on oysters are I could go without them,
as long as i have other types of seafood that are actually
seasoned, not like water doo-doo.
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