To some people (or maybe just this one person), the N Train in the New York City subway system in a perfectly acceptable place to shuck some oysters.
Alex Balk shares a video of a subway rider in New York City doing something that’s maybe dangerous and possibly unsanitary: shucking oysters on the N train. He also pulls out the hot sauce and some lemons, so he came prepared.
This shuckster has clearly stepped it up over the famous brie-wheel-consuming straphanger of late 2013.
FULL STORY: Oysters Shucked
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