The world's your oyster in Galway
08.01.2009
Imagine dedicating a festival to Ostrea edulis. That's the European flat oyster, by the way. The Galway Oyster Festival, which runs from 24 to 27 September 2009, is all about enjoying this slippery creature.
Tens of thousands of the tight-lipped urchins are consumed on the Guinness Oyster Trail, on which 30 pubs give out free trays of the seafood with pints of the dark beer. Each house presents the oysters to the accompaniment of traditional Irish music, and there's more action on display at the World Oyster Opening Championship. International contestants compete to break the world record, set in Galway in 1977, for opening 30 oysters in 1 minute, 31 seconds. The city fills with craic (fun) for the occasion and almost everyone knows that it was a famous Irishman, Jonathan Swift, who said: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." It was William Shakespeare who said "Why then the world's mine oyster."
Tens of thousands of the tight-lipped urchins are consumed on the Guinness Oyster Trail, on which 30 pubs give out free trays of the seafood with pints of the dark beer. Each house presents the oysters to the accompaniment of traditional Irish music, and there's more action on display at the World Oyster Opening Championship. International contestants compete to break the world record, set in Galway in 1977, for opening 30 oysters in 1 minute, 31 seconds. The city fills with craic (fun) for the occasion and almost everyone knows that it was a famous Irishman, Jonathan Swift, who said: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." It was William Shakespeare who said "Why then the world's mine oyster."
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