Luckily, the banks of Loch Fyne, the longest sea loch in Scotland, are ideal for cultivating both oysters and mussels. |
Rhino horn is said to make men sexually unstoppable, and asparagus, bananas, eels, oysters, figs and ginseng are all reputed to get you going. |
One of the more popular starters is the seafood platter, which holds mussels, smoked salmon, oysters, taramasalata and smoked mackerel. |
Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores. |
Periodically, the oysters are graded for size and then put into bags of about 200, to be hardened. |
There weren't any Roman emperors about to barter oysters weight by weight for gold, as they did in the ancient past. |