About Stephanie March’s column on oysters [Down the Hatch, February], in particular the line, “But if you liken it to snot, you should be slapped. Grow up.” Well, Ms. March, I’m a very intelligent, mature man, and now hear this: The texture of oysters is like snot! Truth is truth. I find them to be the most repugnant food on this planet. I don’t believe for a moment that they’re an aphrodisiac. Casanova must simply have had a high level of testosterone. Besides,who needs an aphrodisiac? And to Oliver Nicholson, in defense of champagne [Wine, February]: You’re very knowledgeable, and I generally enjoy your column. However, I must say that I love champagne—as well as red wine—anytime. And it doesn’t give me a worse hangover than anything else. As Dom Perignon said when he first discovered champagne, “Come quickly, I am tasting stars!”
Jerry Westermann,
Fridley
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