• Geek_King@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    During xmas my alter ego emerges like a yule tide butterfly, The Nog Dog. I love egg nog, I just barely have it due to its insane calories. Also, have an upvote, “clamnog” was worth the price of admission!

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I love to use eggnog as creamer for my morning coffee. Actually drinking it straight is a nightmare - I can feel my intestines straightening out.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      As a New Englander, I’m horrified too. The clam is easy, people slam back raw oysters by the dozen, but the potato chunks? My dad was at a restaurant sometime before the holidays where he stuck a spoon in his chowder and it stood up perfectly straight.

      Could be worse though, Manhattan clam chowder has a tomato broth.

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        6 months ago

        Is it good or bad if the spoon stands straight up? I have no frame of reference. Tomato sounds like it would be better than cream, but I’m not big into clams to begin with.

        • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          6 months ago

          New England clam chowder is thicker than something like chicken noodle soup because it uses milk as the base instead of water, but it’s still meant to be a soup. If your spoon sticks into the chowder like you stabbed it into a stick of butter or mashed potatoes, then somebody’s gone off the deep end. That bowl was more potato starch than anything else. But what I really meant was that the thought of trying to drink chunks of potato makes me think of spoiled milk. 🤢

          As for Manhattan style vs New England, it’s one of those things where you like one or the other and you’d divorce your wife if she said she liked the other kind. People are ride or die on both sides of the fence, and I may be biased having grown up in the land of New England chowder where I can harvest my own clams to make my own chowder from scratch, but the thought of throwing clams into what is basically vegetable soup seems crazy to me. New England chowder is meant to be hearty and filling; the kind of thing that you can sit down with after a long winter’s day out in the cold and wind that will stick to your ribs and return feeling to your fingers and toes. If I wanted vegetable soup, I’d make vegetable soup and save the clams for something else, like stuffed quahogs or clams casino or something. And as to how it relates to the original photo, trying to chug down what is basically watered down salsa (but with pieces of clam in it) sounds horrible as well.

  • downhomechunk [chicago]@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Your passion for clam chowder really makes me wish I liked clams. I think a Chicago analog would be how and where you get your Italian beef sandwiches. Never trust a Chicagoan who eats dry ass beef sandwiches. They probably have 20 year’s worth of toenail clippings in a jar next to their collection of belly button lint.