🦪 Anthropologists believe that the oyster was the first animal that humans actively cultivated.

🦪 Malpeque Oysters - is technically any oyster from Canada. Its name derives from the largest bay of Prince Edward Island. In 1898, the Malpeque oyster won the gold medal at the World's Fair in Paris and since then the name has stuck with prestige.

🦪 Oysters are high in omega-3 fatty acids and low in cholesterol.

🦪 Oysters are a digestible protein and provide instant energy to the body.

🦪 Oyster farming is a sustainable resource as they do not need any help from the farmer. They grow naturally in their own habitat. No feed, no antibiotics, water, nor energy/fuel needed to grow them.

🦪 Oysters are hermaphroditic. They change their sex based on population and evolutionary purposes.

🦪 "The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell." Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919

🦪 An oyster can filter more than 3 gallons of water every hour.

🦪 Oysters are NOT FISHY. this does not exist as a flavor profile for oysters and it actually is offensive to the "oyster-verse."

🦪 Oysters are not bottom feeders, they are actually very specific to what they choose to eat.