Anyone ever had a prairie oyster?



Great for hangovers. Recipes vary widely, but it always includes a raw egg and savory components such as a shake of hot sauce, Worcestershire, plus salt and pepper. Some even add some liquor for a “hair of the dog” type effect. I fancy a bit of gin in mine.

So named as the texture and taste is somewhat like a raw dressed oyster. Slides down the through with a savory kick. It’s a traditional “morning after” ritual that’s old as the hills. I’m the sick kind of deplorable that makes them “just for the hell of it” from time to time.

-Jay

Nope, never heard of any such thing.
I used to do the "hair of the dog thing" regularly, but no eating of odd things to try to get over my previous evening's debauchery.
I was actually expecting a post about something similar to a "rocky mountain oyster"...

__________________
Send lawyers, guns & money...

I have been known to take a couple of raw eggs in the morning blended up in a chocolate milkshake. With a real ugly hangover it might be the only thing I could keep down. I wouldn’t want to take something that would just make me want to kack it back up.

It’s been years since I had a hangover.

__________________
Not in jail.

I thought it was something like a Meadow Muffin.
No I haven't.

I'm always leery of anything, other than the honest-to-goodness salt water mollusk that is a true king among the seafoods, that goes by the name oyster -- especially when it includes a descriptive adjective having nothing to do with the ocean.

See "mountain oyster," for instance.

And don't even get me started on the use of the o-word with any accompanying verb describing a throat noise. The phrase "hock up," for instance.

__________________
Ukraine -- now more than ever

Up here, "Prairie Oyster" and "Rocky Mountain Oyster" both refer to the same delicious appetizer. In just a few months we'll be processing young bulls, and harvesting the oysters.

__________________
John

We had just finishes a wicked 105 upwind slog to Pensacola for the annual race. 30 knots on the nose with 10-12 seas. It was my son and nephew's first offshore race-they were around 16-17 at the time.
They were positively BEAT after the race but by the time we hit the dock they were both 100%. I asked my buddy what did he give them and he responded "mixed together some cold coffee, some warm orange juice and a slog of rum" Told them to drink it down quick and it would make them feel better. I told the boys not to tell their mommas and welcome to grown up sailboat racing!!

Hangover cures arevaried and colorful . Years back in New Orleans there was a vile concoction called O'Henn which was pink and looked like (tasted kinda line it too) Pepto Bismol. Anyway the hard core alcoholics swore by it as a Saturday/Sunday morning pick me up. It is long gone but I believe that Sazerac made a limited run a few years back. We take our drinking seriously down here

__________________
Forum consigliere

My mom (who at the time knew nothing about nutrition) used to feed us those for breakfast. No ice cream, just chocolate milk with eggs blended into it, along with bacon and toast. That's still my favorite breakfast!

I wonder how many hungover drunks puke just looking at it. In Texas, a preferred cure is Menudo, with extra jalapeños !!

Wholly Schmolly! That sounds VILE. My eggs have to be HOMOGENEOUS! And cooked! Homogeneous, you say? I tried telling that to a waitress one time and she got offended. I can't tolerate any separation of yolk and white. Gotta be mixed completely. No sloshing eggs with a fork and calling them scrambled. I don't wanna see any white in 'em! She brought back some scrambled yolks! Phooey! Is it that difficult? Fried, boiled, poached? I turn positively green. All I can put up with is scrambled or an omelette with thoroughly mixed up eggs. Raw eggs? Eee gadd... That's worse than a hangover.

Yes. Admittedly, I'm weird. Or so I've been told. At least when it comes to eggs.

As for that hangover remedy, I think I'd have to be thoroughly sloshed to even try it!

Around here the favorite for hangovers seems to be Menudo. When I was young and overindulged the cure was always gatorade.

One of the rites of passage of an MC I used to hang around was called a Prairie Chicken.

Break an egg in a shot glass
Put a rocks glass on top and turn them both over.
Pour in a double shot of Everclear and a generous amount of Tobbasco Sauce
Pull the shot glass out. The egg starts cooking as soon as the Everclear hits it so you have to chug it fast.
To pass the rite you have to keep from puking

In the days of my callow youth, I found the only cure for ill-advised overindulgence and the next day's virtually-certain hangover was to just sleep in. It would be gone the following day.

John

__________________
- Cogito, ergo armatus sum -

I haven't had a hangover in decades but way back a bloody Mary would be my choice for a morning after.

Back in my before getting married days I drank quantities of great multitudes of Vodka. Always hated the taste of alcohol, but loved the buzz.

I'm talking waking up at peoples houses that I didn't know drunk...Probably met them at a little bar in Greenhills called Never on Sunday that we closed every night.

Never had a hang over or got sick from drinking once. There were mass Quaaludes involved too, that my of had something to do with it.

I bet I had some great times. Shame I can't remember a lot of them.