On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:07:25 -0500, Gary > wrote:

> Ophelia wrote:
> >
> > "Gary" wrote:
>
> Do you not have seafood markets nearby that can find anything that you
> request?

Ophelia... it just occurred to me that you can probably find cockles
in Scotland and cockle is a type of clam! We use little necks for our
clam chowder, you can use cockles. They're smaller than Little
Necks, that's all. They are roughly the size of a Manila clam.
Manilas are 20-30/lb. Cockles from New Zealand's North Island are
20-25 per pound. I looked but didn't find much about Scottish cockles
other than it looks like they are not a big commercial product
(somebody needs to fix that to start growing the economy) and they are
mostly poached for sale elsewhere.

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--...27/cockles.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/31/di...ttlenecks.html

cockle vs little neck
http://www.differencebetween.net/obj...am-and-cockle/


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