Show indian Is given credit for discovering oyster cleopatra set the fashions in the days of the homan roman empire however history leads us to believe that caesar planned the menus humming bird tongues on toast were used sparingly but the ostrea was plentiful and highly prized among the romans writes dorothea duncan in the binash ash ington post the ostrea in english speaking countries Is an oyster sal lust 80 35 B C after returning from a jaunt to england with caesar eald said he be could find only one good thing in the britons they eat oysters the greeks had a word for oyster too the word means bone or shell the french took the term and changed it to elstro and from this our word oyster Is derived an indian Is given ghen credit for dincov ering the oyster in america one day he was fishing and seeing a peculiar looking stone in the water stretched out his hand to it the ouster shell closed on his finger he smashed the shell from his hand with his tomahawk put his finger in his mouth and dincov ered the delicious flavor of the ouster oster oysters were so popular tn in early eng land that they featured in the social customs of the country in the mid lands at christmas oyster suppers were given |