# What is this clam-like thing in food stall? And this eel-like thing in food stall? \[w/ images\]

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**Created:** [July 21, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-clam-like-thing-in-food-stall-and-this-eel-like-thing-in-food-stall-w-images/664098 "2013-07-21T07:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jesta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Jesta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesta)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-clam-like-thing-in-food-stall-and-this-eel-like-thing-in-food-stall-w-images/664098/21 "2013-07-22T07:58:25Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> If only someone could come up with a good “Hot 3 inch cockle” joke…

Who mentioned an Asian cross dresser? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-clam-like-thing-in-food-stall-and-this-eel-like-thing-in-food-stall-w-images/664098/22 "2013-07-22T16:12:05Z")

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> [@hibernicus](#):
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> Are you sure you’re not thinking of periwinkles? Cockles don’t really match your description.

> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> :smack:  
> That makes three.

Maybe I was thinking of [winkles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_periwinkle) (Wik cite). Which are the same thing, which is stupid.

Meters, helions, Comos and Masons, and Persian fallen beings and Iolanthe characters are distinct (actually, the last two should be but aren’t).. Why shouldn’t teeny-tiny mollusks?

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-clam-like-thing-in-food-stall-and-this-eel-like-thing-in-food-stall-w-images/664098/23 "2013-07-26T04:29:10Z")

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For to make a potage of welkes.

Take welkes and wasshe fayre, in blythe,  
In water, and take whyte salt þerwith  
And after hakke hom on a borde,  
As smalle as þou may, at a worde,  
And bray hom in a morter clere;  
Sethe hom in mylke over þe fyre;  
Of almondes or of a clow þou take schalle,  
Lye hit with amydone þerwith alle;  
Coloure hit with safrone, and do þerinne  
Poudur of peper, or goode comyne.  
Just saw this.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-clam-like-thing-in-food-stall-and-this-eel-like-thing-in-food-stall-w-images/664098/24 "2013-07-26T04:56:16Z")

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You must have found the Forme of Cury.

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