Question of the Day: Oysters?

Some find them simply delicious: A delicacy encased in a gnarly, prehistoric shell.

Others: not so much. Some, in fact, find them simply disgusting, a slimy sea creature slithering down ones gullet. The monstrous mollusk; the bivalved beast!

This weekend, perhaps 200,000 people will attend the in the historic hamlet by Oyster Bay. Oysters, along with a host of seafood delights and a wide assortment of activities, will be featured in 's hometown.

The oyster question predates all of us.

The Biblical book of Leviticus, (Ch. 11; vs. 10) appears to ban the eating of shellfish, saying sea food "that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable...." There's been much debate on this subject, however.

And it was Shakespeare who (in Falstaff, Act II) penned the line: "Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."

So: where do you stand?

Do you love oysters? If so, with lemon, hot sauce? Raw au naturel?

Hate, even loathe them? 

Never Tried one? Will never try one? Don't believe in eating bivalves?