Nancy Young wrote:
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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?
>
> The Italians I grew up around, scungilli was squid.
>
> nancy

Um, no, squid she issa *calimari*... yoossa know, dem cephalopods widda
lotsa beega testicles.

Sheldon