On 17 Sep 2005 17:51:40 -0700, Sheldon wrote:

> Actually there is nothing italian about clam sauce... the
> American WOPS adopted the clam when there became a shortage of their
> beloved scungilli (whelks),

I've never heard of whelk before this (nothing new, I'm not a marine
biologist)... apparently scungille is a large mollusk with spiral
shells, found along the Italian shoreline and it is a distant relative
of the conch (Strombidae). So, Italians changed from scungille to
clams when they came to North America. Yoose gotta problem wit dat?

sf
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