The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16971 Message #396720
Posted By: artbrooks
12-Feb-01 - 07:20 PM
Thread Name: Acres of Clams-WA song-please clarify
Subject: RE: Acres of Clams-WA song-please clarify
Just to contribute a couple of things to this rather disjointed discussion: I remember bringing a geoduck home from the Pike Place Market (wonderful place...at least then) thinking she'd like to try making chowder (no remarks about sexism, please. She prefers not eating my cooking.) The thing was about the size of a kids football, except flat, and the shell didn't begin to close around the clam. A classic blivit. She put it in a bucket of salt water in the back yard until it died a lingering death. Also, Seattle originally had seven (steep) hills, but they were "hydraulicked" down to the topology that you see today...that's where at least part of "Underground Seattle" comes from.