Shucked

One of the more striking things about “Shucked” is how easily—give or take a joke about birth control—it could tour the country after its Broadway run, just as digestible in conservative precincts as in Times Square.

The Tofino hotel's restaurant, ROAR Tofino, is offering an "Apres Nooner" feature platter for the occasion, which includes chocolate-covered strawberries and freshly shucked oysters for $69.

I'd be wide-eyed as a child as I passed hauls of shiny-eyed snapper and tumbles of baby octopus, oysters shucked and unshucked and umpteen types of fin fish, hunks of swordfish and towering piles of prawns and glossy, spiky sea urchins.

If our grandmother or aunts were putting up vegetables during the summer weeks, we shucked and silked corn, strung and broke beans, shelled peas or whatever we could do.

CHARITY SHUCK-A-THON: There are a whopping 6000 oysters waiting to be shucked at London Seafood Festival.

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2011 file photo, scallop meat is shucked at sea on opening day off Harpswell, Maine.

Volunteers poured cold beer and shucked oysters inside the old firehouse, and at least eight different oyster dishes were available in the nearby parking lot and inside Harvest Moon, the American Legion, and Bishop’s Stock Fine Art, Craft & Wine.

When served freshly shucked (opened) and iced, one may find a liquid inside the shell, called the liquor.