Notes From All Over -- The Late Evening Edition -- Nothing About The Bakken -- August 10, 2020

This was originally posted August 6, 2020, but then put in draft. I am re-posting it even though I have since departed Flathead Lake.

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Walmart And Movies

This is really, really what makes America great! Walmart offering free movies in their parking lots. Link here.

In an announcement that will certainly come as welcome news for the homeless and unemployed already living in their cars in Walmart parking lots, the retailer said yesterday that effective August 14, it is going to be kicking off the "Walmart Drive-in movie theater experience". 

The retailer's "first ever drive-in" movie theater will debut at 160 different Walmart stores across the country starting this month in a partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival. Because showing Disney movies to overweight Walmart customers eating McDonald's in their Dodge pickup trucks is basically synonymous with the elite crowds that attend the Tribeca Film Festival.

This could only happen in America. I love it. You know where you can find me on my cross-country trip back to Grapevine, TX.

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Overlooking Flathead Lake

One of the sisters wanted to drive over to Big Fork and look for deer.

Deciding whether we wanted to go or not, channeling Yogi Berra:

"If we go now, it's too early but if we go later it will be too late."

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An Oyster Story

Years ago, when we were living on the East Coast, my wife and I went out to seafood restaurants as often as possible. We figured we had pretty much seen it all.

One night with my plate of oysters came red live worms. They were about a quarter-inch / half-inch long and very, very thin, but definitely crawling and definitely worms. They didn't seem to be hurting anything, so I ate the oysters, pushed the plate aside and enjoyed the entree -- probably a shark steak -- and never mentioned the little red worms to the waiter. It was an upscale restaurant, and I didn't want to create a "thing."

Some months later I crossed paths with a young man who had worked in a seafood restaurant while going to college. I asked him about the little red worms. He knew all about them. They are found in oysters, but when restaurants shuck oysters they make sure the little red worms don't make it out to the customers. Only that time they didn't.

Tonight we were talking about ceviche and I was reminded of the little red worms.

Link here.

Worms that are found on oysters are called mud worms. They are red in color and form symbiotic relationships with oysters, according to the release issued by the program.

In other words, these worms are naturally occurring on oysters, and are unsightly but harmless.

Oysters along the Gulf of Mexico are mostly harvested from both public and private oyster reefs.

According to the report, oysters that grow in their own shells build a habitat that attract what is called, "estuarine organism."

The bigger question, are they safe to eat? 

Supan says yes. "They are absolutely harmless and naturally occurring," he added. "If a consumer is offended by it while eating raw oysters, just wipe it off and ask your waiter/waitress for another napkin." 

Supan also said that if there are children at the table, to ask a waiter for a clear glass of water to drop the worms in. 

"They are beautiful swimmers and can be quite entertaining," Supan said.