People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — The True Test of Oysters. [ARTICLE]

The True Test of Oysters.

“The best oyster experts that I know of, ” said the oaptain of an oyster boat, “judge an oyster by the smell, instead of by the taste. These is something about the smell of any oyster that indicates its condition to me muoh plainer than does the taste. People buy them and eat them probably on aooount of their taste. So also do they boy tea, ooffiae and tbe various grades of whisky and brandy for their taste, but all experts on those things pass upon them entirely by their smelL The professional tea taster or whisky taster, so called, never tastes them, but simply arrives at their taste by their peculiarities of flavor, or, to speak plainly, smelL “I can tell what prloe a load of oysters will be rated at when they arrive at tbe wharf here by opening up the hold of the boat aud smelling. In eight oases out of ten lam right. It strikes oystermen as strange when they see persons going about from boat to boat, as they lie at the wharf, tasting oysters before they oonalude to buy. Taste is all right, but if they don’t smell right they will never taste right ’’ —Washington Star.