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liuzhou

liuzhou

The UK seafood that could send you to jail

 

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Unique to the Channel Islands but most famously harvested on Guernsey, ormers can only be gathered around 20 days of the year – and are wrapped in a host of rules.

 

The article is non-commital regarding the taste, so I looked up some more of the earliest references in English which are more positive.

 

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1672 Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (Camden) 81 Ye ormers were thought most excellent meate.    

 

1694 Falle Jersey ii. 74 We have also the Ormer, which is a Fish scarce known out of these Islands. Ormer‥is a Contraction of Oreille de Mer.‥ It has no Under-shell like the Oyster, but the Fish clingeth to the Rock with the Back, and the Shell covers the Belly.   

 

1837 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 169 The ormer, a shell-fish, has been compared to veal-cutlet.    

 

1856 Woodward Mollusca iii. 425 Ormers‥may be removed from the rocks to which they adhere by throwing a little warm water over them.    

 

1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester II. xvi. 201 The ormer is the most delicious of univalves.

 

Anyone sampled them?

liuzhou

liuzhou

The UK seafood that could send you to jail

 

Quote

Unique to the Channel Islands but most famously harvested on Guernsey, ormers can only be gathered around 20 days of the year – and are wrapped in a host of rules.

 

The article is non-commital regarding the taste, so I looked up some of the earliest references in English which are more positive.

 

Quote

1672 Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (Camden) 81 Ye ormers were thought most excellent meate.    

 

1694 Falle Jersey ii. 74 We have also the Ormer, which is a Fish scarce known out of these Islands. Ormer‥is a Contraction of Oreille de Mer.‥ It has no Under-shell like the Oyster, but the Fish clingeth to the Rock with the Back, and the Shell covers the Belly.   

 

1837 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 169 The ormer, a shell-fish, has been compared to veal-cutlet.    

 

1856 Woodward Mollusca iii. 425 Ormers‥may be removed from the rocks to which they adhere by throwing a little warm water over them.    

 

1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester II. xvi. 201 The ormer is the most delicious of univalves.

 

Anyone sampled them?

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