‘Would make me so sick’
The world might be your oyster, but oysters are her world.
A shellfish fanatic alarmed her social media followers after inhaling 70 oysters in one sitting for breakfast, as seen in a raw-inspiring TikTok video with over 33 million views.
“Can I eat 70 oysters for breakfast … ?” teased user Georgiana in the clip’s caption. The German food-fluencer, who lives in London, frequently shares her mouthwatering epicurean experiences for her over 400,000 followers on the platform.
Previously, Georgiana even wolfed down 50 and 60 in separate sittings, but neither of those banquets compared to the latest feat of extreme eating.
The self-proclaimed “oyster girl” decided to complete the mollusk marathon at the Wright Brothers Battersea Power Station restaurant in London.
She ordered the Mount Everest-evoking pile of shellfish to take advantage of the seafood depot’s 1 GBP ($1.25) oyster deal, which is offered during brunch on Saturday and Sunday, per the clip, as well as during happy hour Monday through Friday.
After downing the inaugural mollusk, the veritable Joey Chestnut of shellfish then somewhat nonchalantly gobbled the other 69, one after another in seemingly quick succession.
She even made sure to baptize each briny bite in Tabasco and lemon juice.
At the end of the feast, the TikTokker dubbed the bivalve bonanza the “best breakfast of my entire life.”
Viewers were shell-shocked.
Some users were concerned that she might be playing digestive Russian roulette by eating so many raw shellfish in one go.
“Isn’t it bad for someone to eat more than 12-15 oysters?” fretted one, while another wrote, “Bestie, that is over 2000 mg of magnesium.”
“Love oysters but that would make me so sick,” a third declared. “I’d also be worried about the higher chances of catching a parasite from that many in one sitting.”
While oysters do boast oodles of nutritional goodies — including zinc, Vitamin B12 and more — eating too many can raise one’s risk of ingesting food-borne microbes such as Vibrio bacteria, according to Healthline.
However, the risk of contracting the latter pathogen is extremely rare, experts say.
In December, more than 80 people were sickened by raw oysters following a possible norovirus outbreak as they celebrated the best restaurants hailed by the Los Angeles Times.
In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned seafood lovers to steer clear of shellfish from Oregon and Washington State over concerns that they could be tainted with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning, which can be lethal.
