Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-16

The AMERICAN OYSTER IN LONDON While.
as we learn, the Spanialds are giving fetes in
honor OF The arrival there of General Sherman.
we are having a decided sensation in London
over the arrival of Il still more distinguished
American, namely, the American oyster The
English people have for long time known of
the excellence OF the American blvalve only by
fame. Last year company was formed to i'm
port it, and believe the stocks sold we'll The
present importation, however, has NOT come
through that company, but by certain folks who
have anticipated its operations. The cOmpany
means, or so it is understood, to have certain
ships which shall be virtually made into tray
cling oyster boats, so that there shall always he
a fresh supply. The oysters we are now enioy
ing have been brought over in barrels, in which
they are daily splashed with salt water But
they must have been brought IN considerable
quantities, as they are to be found in nearly ali
oyster saloons, and are sold at eighteen pence
the dozen, which is exactly one-half of what we
have to pay Tor the English natyes--the only
English oysters which are not too coarse
Tor anything but cooking. The English
know nothing about eating oysters in
any but the raw form, with the excen.
ton of using the large, coarse and cheap ones
as sauce Tor fish,. The native oyster" as il Is
called, is undoubtedly very savory. The most
patriotic American speedily learns to like IT,
though all foreigners notice the strong flavor OF
copper it POSSESSES and are at first rcpelled nv
~ ~ thls copper fldvOr, strange to say, the
English obstinately refuse TO know ANYTHING.
Ihey deny that it has any such flavor. Mr..
frank auckland, who devotes his life TO the
culture OF oyster spatand salmon, has repeatedly
described in the Land and Water, and other
journals for which he writes, the oyster beds
where the natives are born and bred; and he has
shown that they have to be transferred from
their original beds at a time when they are SO
green with copper that they would be poisonous,
TO other beds, where they become pure enough
for human food. And yet when YOU mention
the copper taste your English friend looks AZ Won
askance, and has no doubt that you are irving
TO Delitue the institutions OF his country, Nor K
he less patriotic than the American IN vindcat-
ing the superiority Of his oyster above all others
was once lunching at Pimm's, the most ey.
tenslye oyster rooms in London, with an English
member OF parliament, aud, descantng on
the wonderful superiority of the Americ an
blvalve, when, on looking up, perceived on his
lace absolute incredibly. But, while | was
feeling quite helpless before this, the man who
was opening the oysters for us put in a word !:
what tile gentleman (meanlng mel says is
quite true, sir. We had n barrel of American
oysters IN this house once, and they were better
than any we've ever had, before or since" OF
course you viii say my member OF parliament
gave IN at once, after Plmm had spoken On
the contrary, lie declined another dozen of "na-
ives" which am sure he had contemplated,
paid his bill, and went out with a whitening
smile, and, | suspect, takes his luncheons else