Shellfish Used to Be Prison Food? How Oysters Became a Luxury A raw oyster can cost several dollars today, yet oysters once fed workers, families, and people in public institutions. The phrase shellfish prison food comes from this older reality, when coastal shellfish were cheap, local, and easy to collect. It doesn’t mean every prison served oysters or that shellfish had one fixed social class. It points to a time when oysters, clams, mussels, and other shore foods were everyday fare. Why Shellfish Used to Be Prison Food in Some Coastal Cities Oysters were a working person’s food Native oyster beds grew near many early American settlements. People gathered oysters in bays, tidal rivers, and estuaries, often close to where they lived. Clams, mussels, and periwinkles added more choices, especially for coastal families with limited income. Oysters appeared in stews, pies, soups, and simple meals served with bread. Vendors sold them in busy port towns, while households bought them ...
Bisquick skillet breakfast This recipe can almost be considered as a breakfast pizza, but it could also be considered a casserole. Instead of making a pizza crust, I opted to make a simple Bisquick biscuit crust for the bottom layer. So it's one big biscuit with scrambled eggs, cooked sausages, chopped peppers, diced onions, and gooey cheese on top. It can be sliced like a pizza or scooped out with a spoon. Ingredients for the dough: 2-½ cups of Bisquick (homemade biscuit mix or any other type of purchased biscuit mix would work as well) ½ cup of water To make the dough, add the following ingredients together in a bowl (just like you're making biscuits). Seasoning salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 4-5 eggs, scrambled 1-2 banana peppers, chopped 1 small onion, diced ½ pound of sausage, cooked (I used ground sausage, but made them into mini meatballs before cooking them. If you want to do the same, just roll the ground sausage by hand into ball shapes, then cook them until ...