17: It's nice there, I love to go to Block Island and eat the seafood at the restaurants right on the pier. Steamed mussels by the bucket especially, steamers.

I grew up in NW Oregon. We had clam chowder for lunch once a week at school. Grandma's was better tho. We went out to the bay several times when the tide was out and found them... Good times..

Steamed mussels are not steamers, steamed little neck clams are steamers.

You wouldn't even know how to find 'em, wouldja?

Baked, stuffed quahogs are the ****!

23: You mean go out and get them myself? Heh, when I was at the cape last summer my aunt and uncle tried to get me to go out and do that, they have a B&B and a license. I avoided it. I didn't feel like working that hard for something I could easily buy at a restaurant, especially while on vacation. I would rather smoke a cigar and watch other people poke the sand.

I thought as much.

There is a trick to finding exactly where they are, without "poking the sand". I am not inclined to share that knowledge with you, though.

Good day.

25: lmao, elitist.

I SAID GOOD DAY!

#2 Not over on the left coast. Chowder. Best with razor clams, if you can get them. And keep the tomatoes away...clams don't live near tomatoes (just shut up while I add potatoes, bacon, onions and celery).

^ how about a reciepe for a thin New England chowder like that?

None of that goo--thin!

^"thin"? you use that word next to new England chowdah? My family on my mother's side is from the Cape Cod area, I grew up on New England seafood, and "thin" was never in the vocabulary when describing chowdah.

"thin" he says...disgusting...blasphemy!!

big chief must go to Aunt Carrie's in Narragansett. Just order a half dozen clam cakes and bowl of chowdah.

chief will be happy.

trust me... RI chowdah isn't so thick you can stand a spoon in it and it isn't too thin to be called soup. It's friggin perfect.

31: Just don't go to Newport or Block Island.

^Yeah, too many 'tools' there.

Macs,

Aunt Carries was not open Memorial Day weekend two years ago, so we rode our bikes over to Iggy's.

Fan-friggin-tastic clam cakes.

We were camping at Fisherman's Memorial State Park.

The only negative was that I didn't catch any fish casting from the breakwater.

And while mussels may not be steamers, a big ol' bowl of steamed mussels served up Portugese style is tough to beat.

Ok, how many with kids, (or not) saw the title and thought of the cartoon?

tailgater,

I'm not sure of Aunt Carrie's hours of operation anymore, but when I was growing up they were basically a summer business. Open for tourist season and closed the rest of the year.

And they made enough loot in a couple months to stay closed the rest of the year... or so it would seem, since they're still in bidness.

Oh, if you like flounder... Wickford was where I used to fish for them. Right off the Wickford bridge. There was a small bait shop right next to it where we used to buy our clam worms.

Really interesting how these threads just get a life of their own.

I mentioned once that I was BBQ some pork, and 200 posts later, folks were still talking.

All I wanted to say here was that I had a pretty good lunch. Was good "soup".

But, seeing as today is Friday, I might be able to get some Clam chowder someplace.

Shawn, you ever been to the new Manhattan deli place across the street from the mall? Has been opened for less than a month. I'll give you a dollar if you can eat their three-meat sandwich and sides in one sitting. I think they may have some chowdahhhhhh there. Probably not though, they're New York influenced.

fret

Yeah, and since I'm from RI, I have only one thing to say about NY... even though my traitor ass sister lives there...

F*** NY.

And with a name like Manhatten, their chowder prolly sucks balls.

LOL!

Dude.

I didn't know. You're a RI boy?

fret