# After much deliberation....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030 "2006-07-11T15:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/21 "2006-07-12T19:40:49Z")
Welcome to the Boards, watch your step, please keep your hands in the ride at all times and Enjoy the trip. Jim ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/22 "2006-07-13T05:32:12Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Hold on there a moment, bub. :dubious: Before we let you join – what color was the chowder? [/QUOTE] I get the feeling I’m being whooshed here but anyway I’ll play 😃 Sorta creamy coloured with pink bits in it., the clam cakes and fried clam strips were scrummy also. I like clam in case you hadn’t guessed ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/23 "2006-07-13T13:00:41Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Sorta creamy coloured with pink bits in it., the clam cakes and fried clam strips were scrummy also. [/QUOTE] BZZZZZT! Wrong! We would have settled for “Really creamy colored.” Aw, hell, you’re close enough. If you’d have said “Red with chunks of tomato” we would have had to boot your ass off the board. So-called Manhattan (or Rhode Island) “clam chowder” is not chowder at all, but rather an abomination before God. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/24 "2006-07-13T13:05:21Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Well not really all that much. 😃 Anyway having realised that I’m in the company of well mannered, erudite, articulate beings I decided to cough up and join. Even as I type my dosh is winging its way across the pond to Uncle Sam. Now all I have to do is fathom out the bolding/underlining and all the other little goodies which are mine, the following are tests\>\>\>\>\> \*\* well lordy me\* [/QUOTE] Welcome, **chowder**! Glad to have you aboard! But there’s something fundamentally _wrong_ with describing a bunch of Americans as “well mannered, erudite, articulate beings”. The dicotomey (sp?) makes my brain swell. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/25 "2006-07-13T15:25:50Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] BZZZZZT! Wrong! We would have settled for “Really creamy colored.” Aw, hell, you’re close enough. If you’d have said “Red with chunks of tomato” we would have had to boot your ass off the board. So-called Manhattan (or Rhode Island) “clam chowder” is not chowder at all, but rather an abomination before God. _shudder_ [/QUOTE] Well I had my first taste in Rhode Island at a seafood place, Aunt Carries in Narangasset (sp?) and of all the places I tried chowder at that was way and above the best by far. So considering that I had it in RI why wasn’t it red? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/26 "2006-07-13T15:26:34Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] If you’d have said “Red with chunks of tomato” we would have had to boot your ass off the board. So-called Manhattan (or Rhode Island) “clam chowder” is not chowder at all, but rather an abomination before God. _shudder_ [/QUOTE] I _knew_ there was a reason I liked you. ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/27 "2006-07-13T16:27:14Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Well I had my first taste in Rhode Island at a seafood place, Aunt Carries in Narangasset (sp?) and of all the places I tried chowder at that was way and above the best by far. So considering that I had it in RI why wasn’t it red? [/QUOTE] Red style (tomato based) chowder is native to RI, but not the only thing served. For whatever reason, it was named “Manhattan Style” rather than “RI-style.” From what I have seen, most folks in this part of RI (Narragansett, actually!) prefer white or “New England” style. However, most places I have been to in RI that serve chowder have both styles. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/28 "2006-07-13T16:30:03Z")
it’s about freakin’ time, bucko! listen, if you don’t like the goat, there are a few squid waiting in the wings ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/29 "2006-07-13T16:30:51Z")
Well, hell. Here’s another place where I’m gonna get branded as a heretic, or worse. Ahem…“Manhattan” -style clam chowder is the only kind worth eating. The garp that is passed off as “New England” -style is better suited for feeding farm animals. Blech! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/30 "2006-07-13T16:34:11Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Well, hell. Here’s another place where I’m gonna get branded as a heretic, or worse. Ahem…“Manhattan” -style clam chowder is the only kind worth eating. The garp that is passed off as “New England” -style is better suited for feeding farm animals. Blech! [/QUOTE] Gross! Them’s fightin’ words. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/31 "2006-07-13T16:35:47Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] So considering that I had it in RI why wasn’t it red? [/QUOTE] I have no idea. Maybe that’s just the name. NE chowder (the white kind, of which I approve) seems to be the more popular, and for good reason. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/32 "2006-07-13T16:37:10Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Ahem…“Manhattan” -style clam chowder is the only kind worth eating. The garp that is passed off as “New England” -style is better suited for feeding farm animals. Blech! [/QUOTE] Baaaa! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/33 "2006-07-13T17:18:36Z")
Both kinds are very tasty - I prefer Manhattan because sometimes cream based soups are very heavy. They don’t offer it anymore, but Legal Seafood used to have a light chowder - same ingredients as NECC, but in a broth base. [RachelRay] Yummo! [/RR] ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/34 "2006-07-13T18:57:17Z")
Is that pronounced CHOW-der or chow-DAIRE? Welcome from a vegetarian who likes corn chowder. ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030/35 "2006-07-13T19:27:51Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Is that pronounced CHOW-der or chow-DAIRE? Welcome from a vegetarian who likes corn chowder. [/QUOTE] “CHA-dah.” Anything else just ain’t the same! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-much-deliberation/364030.md?page=1)