"American Indians are said to have introduced this warning centuries ago to early settlers, and nowadays the saying is applied to the months without an R, namely May through August. But it may be outdated."
"When facing a cool dozen oysters on the half shell in the chill of a San Francisco summer, you might be tempted to break the ancient rule of oysterdom, which says: Don't eat oysters in months that lack the letter R in their names."
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