time for some nice mental-palate-cleansing geoduck pictures

[sisyphusshrugged]

pronounced "gooeyduck"




Looks kinda like a nursery, no?

Comments

[serenada.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the spitting info.

Thanks A LOT.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

hey, if I can leave just one person with an indelible mental image, I'll feel as if I've done my work.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, here in the Pacific Northwest even our clams have cojones (hidden inside the shell, you can't see them past the huge "neck").

BTW they are mostly minced up for chowder. I don't think our toughest loggers or fisherman could face one fried up whole on a plate.

[drood.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd read about geoducks in Betty MacDonald's books, but I never knew what they looked like.

I still wish I didn't know, too.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Read the speech, fulminated a bit, and then I thought "Hey - know what would make me feel better? Geoducks"

My first thought . . .

[(Anonymous)]

. . . was that "geoduck" was some kind of Pokemon. Honest. Which led me to wonder, "Why the hell would Julia be writing about that?"

Gawd, those things are disturbing.

Stefan

Re: My first thought . . .

[(Anonymous)]

They are good-eating, but as my anon post above suggests, only after being minced.

In the Northwest whole families go digging for geoducks. Adds a whole new chapter to that lecture about "the birds and the bees".

Bruce