Interesting, there are still a ton of restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn that sell unlimited $1 oysters, I wonder if that has any connection of this once the harbours had replenished from overfishing.

I also dug a little deeper into this and found this interesting little tidbit about Charles Dickens:

Charles Dickens, during his American sojourn, was one of those foreign visitors who made it a point to stop at the city’s oyster cellars, which advertised “Oysters in Every Style”. Dickens even commented on the “wonderful cookery of oysters” within New York. History on the Half-Shell: The Story of New York City and Its Oysters

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