Reading this . Cooked for best quality . Why . Ask the fish monger. When did these come in and where were these harvested. They should have a tag on the bag when reaching the supermarket. Otherwise runaway as fast and faraway as you can go .
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Amen!
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This is the first I’ve ever come across the term BBQ oysters in the US too. I’ve seen live cooking demos with oysters on a grill and in Japan, fresh oysters can be served cooking on a tabletop grill in its natural juices (this is as delicious as it sounds). I’ve only had this with medium sized oysters, but I guess the typical US grill has larger gaps so using the term as a gauge for size may make sense.
The terms BBQ and Grill are often misused in the USA. Many thinking BBQ means anything with “BBQ sauce” which in the case of oysters does not appeal to me at all. What I have done with oysters like what is being sold at Safeway is more like grilling than BBQ. I almost mentioned that prior but that opens up a whole new can of worms.
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BBQ or Grilled Oysters are very common here on the Coast of Northern California.
They are almost always made with medium sized Oysters which are 3-4″ in shell length
They are really just grilled Oysters there is no low and slow about it , so kind of a misuse of the Word BBQ IMO.
Often they cooked some Compound Butter in the shell but less often with BBQ Sauce.
Examples of this can be seen on these Menus:
Handline
Hog Island Oysters
Fisherman’s Cove
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I did not say never with BBQ Sauce
Ok, but neither did I.
In answer to OP’s question, what are these, they’re just plain wrong! Probablypossibly not dangerous but I would avoid at all costs.
re BBQ oysters, they are indeed a NoCal thing. Larger sizes that are best cooked. One of my favorite orders at Marshall Store fish shack at Point Reyes. Indeed with BBQ sauce.
Note that fish purveyers, eg Seafood Center, sell larger, industry standard medium, oysters as BBQ oysters, and small ones as cocktail oysters, i.e., can/to be eaten raw.
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run, don’t walk
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To, or away? 
Hog Island oysters were our local favorites bitd. We would buy a mess of them and GRILL them on our gas BBQ grill, as we called it. They would open up and we’d consume them before all the juices were gone. A squirt of lemon, cocktail sauce, a spoonful of mignonette or just plain in their own goodness. One time I found what was a natural pearl. Nearly broke a tooth on it.
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