Geoduck

This is a rather obscene looking burrowing clam from up here in the Pacific Northwest. It can apparently live for up to 140 years (oldest recorded was 179) if it doesn't cross paths with a diver or chef, but what annoys me is the pronunciation. Despite the spelling, it is pronounced 'gooyduck'. It comes from a Coast Salish name and maybe that is where the problem began as some English speaker wrote down the Salish word phonetically and it doesn't match the spelling. Anyone know?.

I've only eaten it a couple of times and it is tasty although it was tough one time. Anyone cook with it?

[Jenise]

I've never cooked with it. Nor has anyone I know, though once a friend did tape one inside his pants to go as a flasher to a Halloween party. (After the party and on the way home, they took it to the Bay and set it free. It had done its job.)

Only ate it once, stir-fried at a seafood Chinese restaurant in Richmond. Tasted a lot like abalone.

This is a rather obscene looking borrowing clam...

Speaking as a retired summer librarian, I know those kind. Never bring the books back.

I've only eaten it a couple of times and it is tasty although it was tough one time. Anyone cook with it?

I've also only eaten it a couple of times. It was good. Have never cooked with it.

This is a rather obscene looking borrowing clam...

Speaking as a retired summer librarian, I know those kind. Never bring the books back.

Never knew they could read.

This is a rather obscene looking borrowing clam...

Speaking as a retired summer librarian, I know those kind. Never bring the books back.

Never knew they could read.

A clam has between 40 and 200 eyes. Gotta do something with them.

The common bay scallop of the US Atlantic coast has an eye in each ridge along the rim of the shell. They are blue-eyed.

-Paul W.

The common bay scallop of the US Atlantic coast has an eye in ridge along the rim of the shell. They are blue-eyed.

Yes, somewhere I have a scallop hand-puppet and it has blue eyes!