"A bonne bouche for those who like trivia: Ewan and Peggy dined with us at a seafood cafe in Vancouver (the Marine View, almost entirely shoreworkers and now long gone) a few decades back and Ewan was DISGUSTED that they fried oysters there - apparently a no-no for people who've only ever eaten them raw (I've never eaten one at all!)." John Bartlett 11 Oct 07===

Not such trivia, perhaps, If Ewan did have a fault it was over-prescriptiveness; this seems to me an example of it, even tho on a culinary rather than a folk-musical matter. There isn't only one way to cook & eat an egg, or a steak; so why cavil at others' taste in bivalve molluscs? raw oysters taste one way, fried another; I myself am fond of both.

He was indeed usually polite: but sometimes both unreasonable & unmannerly ~~ I gave an example of this in some very dodgy treatment of a close friend of mine on the What Did You Do In The War? thread on 30 Aug 09 12.37 AM.

I had that Peggy Seeger sitting on my lap for a car journey from a club in 1956. Match that, any of you?

~Michael~