BS: A Year without whelks

Subject: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Stu
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 11:30 AM

I could never manage it. I love whelks, me.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Will Fly
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 12:15 PM

May favourite was Laurence.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 01:11 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2By8AJ9U94

A primer about whelks.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 01:22 PM

But the whelks still exist, even of you don't believe in them.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 01:30 PM

I wish Spokane Public TV would get rid of its Laurence.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 01:52 PM

Whelk I never!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 04:38 PM

I always thought they were delicious but none around since the big whelk deletion days of the sixties. sad.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Van
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 05:17 PM

Whelk I'll be blessed!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 05:45 PM

Whelk ick me in the nuts and ka all me Rhonda!!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 07:06 PM

Wes Is an amazing Whelker. This guy can shuck down defenses tight as a clam!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 09:33 PM

I once shipped on a whelker out of New Bedford. In the first nine months we took eight Gray Whelks, six Right Whelks, a Humpbacked Whelk, and a Blue Whelk. We'd sing all the old songs in the fo'casle:

It's advertised in Boston, New York and Buffalo
Two hundred hearty sailor lads a-whelkin' for to go...

and "Greenland Whelk Fisheries" and "Sailin' Down To Old Wowee" and the rest.

Oh whelk, those were the days, when we'd make the whelkin' ring!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 09:56 PM

These boots are made for whelking...

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST,Don Firth
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 10:28 PM

Keep clam.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 05:53 AM

Beware of PSP.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Stu
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 06:23 AM

So many good songs in the tradition about the noble whelk too.

The Derby Whelk, Whelky Banks, Two Jolly Whelks . . . I could go on, but the whelks are keening on the hillsides, and their plaintive song mingles with the cadences of the wind about the tussocks. They call me to the fish shop.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 06:28 AM

'kin 'orrible things.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 10:09 AM

You could do better than to read Hermy Melvin's "Droopy-Dick, or The Whelk." It's a true classic of its sort.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 10:29 AM

Whelk was every inch a whelker!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 08:26 PM

Tussocks pass wind?

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Bert
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 08:27 PM

If you can't imagine life without whelks then don't cross the pond to the dear old USA. Not only do they not have whelks, they don't even know what they are and would be scared shitless of them if they did.

They also know nothing about winkles, real shrimp (they think that prawns are shrimp), cockles, kippers, bloaters or buckling. And as for jellied eels......

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Eldergirl
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 08:35 PM

Not to mention the humble winkle. Oh damn, I mentioned it..
Too late now.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Janie
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 08:55 PM

Whelks are tasty. Whelks are also very tough. Remembering my one experience taking and cooking a Whelk, down in the Florida Keys. didn't have the tools, patience or arm-strength to beat it long or hard enough to make it tender. Proudly prepared it and served it up to the folks in whose back yard we were living for the winter - Bahamians, with experience in these matters. Remembering Herbie yelling out his back door with compassion and humor - "tastes good, but pencil erasers are more chewable."

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 03:32 AM

Whale kipper whelk-ome in the hillsides?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Stu
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 04:45 AM

Our fish shop has tasty, tender Scottish whelks in weak vinegar. They are not at all chewy, and have a firm texture with a bit of bite but no rubberyness, and are possessed of that subtle taste only whelks have and I heard a great gastronome once describe as "whelky".

Morecambe Bay potted shrimps are fantastic. They are covered in butter which you have to break through to get to the luverly little brown shimps. Bliss.

Off to find jellied eels now, if I can. I could really eat some jellied eels.

O noble Whelk! O bonny Whelk!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 10:15 AM

If they were edible they'd be used on sushi. I understand that old British sea captains used them to flog sailors, leaving large whelks across their backs.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 05:35 PM

whale beer 

Update on whale beer-in case you wondered.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 07:34 PM

Beer from whelks...interesting...hmmm...my brother has a couple of stills, and we could make the mash from mashed whelks and then skim off the whelk beer and run 'er through to make whelk wine. A couple more times through and we'd have whelk whiskey.

Just like old times!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Janie
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 08:56 PM

ewwwwww!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 09:03 PM

A year without whelks is nothing to me. They're not found near here anyway. Oh, maybe waaaaaaaaaay up in the mountains, but not near town. What I am concerned about is a year ithout...without...this, which obviously created to be served with lime jello to olddude.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Stu
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 06:59 AM

The blobfish!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 09:13 AM

Yes. Blobfish in lime jello aspic.

Delicious, they say.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 10:04 AM

"If you can't imagine life without whelks then don't cross the pond to the dear old USA. Not only do they not have whelks, they don't even know what they are and would be scared shitless of them if they did."

LOL... my mom was raised in Cape May - the southern tip of New Jersey with the Deleware Bay on the west & the Atlantic on the east. Low tide at the harbor was memorable for the "aroma" of the tons and tons of knobbed whelk shells that were pitched under the docks after being harvested. The offshore dredgers would harvest ocean clams - the "main" ingredient of Campbell's clam chowder- and what they referred to as "conchs".   

I'm not sure if I ever saw the "meat" at the harbor fish market... though they did have sea robin filets ( no one would ever buy "sea chicken" if they saw the ugly little buggers live or heard them croak... lol)

I do love abalone soup... except for the price, so I haven't seen it available fresh in years. Western NY is still getting used to lobsters. :) I need to retire & head back to the coast... closer to shanty sings!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Stu
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 10:13 AM

Sounds tasty. We get them over here, nesting in the chimney pots of Vicarages and Parochial Houses and greeting the dawn with their cries, which sound like throaty, aged Whimbrels in a brief squall.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 11:52 AM

The knobbed whelk is the state shell of Georgia and New Jersey.

Yes... I am bored.

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 10:16 AM

Blobfish large and blobfish small,
In the parlor, bedrooms, hall --
Blobfish braised and blobfish fried
Don't knock something you haven't tried.

Blobfish blue and blobfish green
In the theater, in the scene
Oh, how rare is the blobfish wonder!
Kickin' ass and stealin' thunder!

Blobfish out upon the twon
Tossin' beer and whiskey down
Blobfish cops and blobfish drunks --
I think I'll stay here in this trunk.

       Calvin N. Hobbes, The Blobfish Poems (Illiwack, NY: Privately Published, 1878).

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 08:30 PM

there you go 

Let s try it again

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 06:34 AM

What an awful thing to do to scallops!

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 11:36 AM

Did he make a gallop in a scallop shallop?

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: GUEST,ed T
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 12:07 PM

What respect can you expect when you are a bivalve, filter-feeding, marine mollusc? Even if you have a tasty hinge muscle

Subject: RE: BS: A Year without whelks
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 02:24 PM

To be fried to a golden brown in a mix of salt free Becel marg and canola oil. Simply devine.