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400 year old clam could have been in Pilgrim's chowder |
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New Englanders KNOW that clam chowder is white.
The red stuff is for Yankees fans. Last year Land Ho in Orleans served the red stuff for a day or two. I expected to see pitchforks and torches in the parking lot. Inside there were people actually eating and
enjoying the mess. Tomatoes and clams? Sounds like
booyawhatever. Thoughts of clams come to mind because of a
story I found this morning. Scientists have discovered a 400
year old quahog clam. The variety, Arctica islandia, lives
in the waters off Iceland. If the clam had looked up when it was a kid it could have seen the Mayflower sailing by. That's something to think about the next time you eat clam chowder. Give a little latitude and longitude here. You could be eating brothers and sisters of clams Myles Standish ate in 1620. Here's the story by Brandon Keim
in Wired.
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