Tastes Change.

My love for oysters all started when I went for a family dinner at Pure Spirits Oyster House & Grill in the Distillery District in Toronto about three years ago. I had never had oysters before that, and fell in love. I returned to the restaurant a couple months after to throw a friend a birthday dinner... more oysters... kept on returning, bringing more friends in hope that they too would share the love. Two years go by and my obsession with oysters grew and grew, until I was determined to try oysters in every new city that I traveled to. I still found that the best oysters were in Toronto at Pure Spirits and at Rodney's Oyster House (both restaurants get their oysters from the same place)...

So from March - November 2009 I tried oysters in Bermuda, Miami, New York City, London, Madrid and Vancouver... it wasn't until I went to London, England in July where all that changed. I got 24 hour food poisoning from rotten oysters. Yes... Rotten oysters. It was one of the worst sick experiences I've ever had. The one food I trusted with all my heart had poisoned me, it was so hard to bare. So because of the experience I couldn't even look at an oyster for a month

(I couldn't help myself... It's like when you have a bad night after taking too many tequila shots and you say to yourself "I'M NEVER DRINKING AGAIN!!!" and then the next day you change it to "I'M NEVER DRINKING TEQUILA AGAIN!!!" and soon enough you catch yourself thinking.... "I'll never take 12 shots of tequila in a row in Dominican Republic again" and then the next hour you just say "FUCK IT I WANA GET SHIT FACED!!!")

ANYWAY... So the next month I go back to Pure Spirits for oysters just to see how they were. And surprisingly enough I felt a little nauseous after. So I didn't have them until the next month when I just moved to Vancouver... tried them again, same thing felt nauseous... So last week when I was in Toronto I went back to Pure Spirits so excited to try great oysters... to find myself feeling nauseous once again!!!!

This is when I went to Nirvana- thinking that my nauseous feeling would over pass like the other two times... but I get there, sit down with my friend. And run to the bathroom. I continued to order a drink cause I thought I was fine... and again.

I'M ALLERGIC TO OYSTERS!?!???? How can the one food I thought I could never be sick of, make me sick every time? Tastes Change. Why? I don't know, but I think it's horrible. I understand tastes changing with other things... like fur coats and the colour pink. But OYSTERS???? Apparently, your body can change that too. WOW. I need to find a new obsession...