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Happy as a clam?

Posted on 11/16/2018 5:34:15 PM PST by SamAdams76

Why do people say that they are as "happy as a clam"?

Clams don't look all that happy to me.



TOPICS: Astronomy; Food; Humor; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: anotherstupidvanity; clams; happyasaclam; hightide; vanity
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To: 9YearLurker

Murkey as a muscle?


21 posted on 11/16/2018 6:34:57 PM PST by GoldenPup
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To: SamAdams76

22 posted on 11/16/2018 6:35:44 PM PST by maddog55
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To: Laslo Fripp

The ONLY thing is fried clams!! (things are)


23 posted on 11/16/2018 6:38:05 PM PST by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: combat_boots

You can keep them. I don’t eat fish or seafood. Blccch!


24 posted on 11/16/2018 6:41:36 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SamAdams76

I’ve eaten fried clams morning, noon and night. Love clams any way, But fried are the best. I was born in and grew up near Boston. Ipswich? The best!


25 posted on 11/16/2018 6:42:31 PM PST by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: SamAdams76; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
"I clam and scallop."


26 posted on 11/16/2018 6:42:39 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: 2banana

Mommy says, what’s in the box children?
Sally says it’s a puppy.
Bobby says it a soft kitty.
Mommy says no winner as yet.
Daddy says I know...it’s a bearded clam isn’t it mommy.
and mommy and daddy retired to the big bedroom to play
with the bearded clam and a good time was had by all.
the end.


27 posted on 11/16/2018 6:43:48 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SamAdams76

My guess is they’re considered content sitting at the bottom of the sea or buried in the sand.


28 posted on 11/16/2018 7:25:21 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: dontreadthis
And the Indians put here in CA OHLONE. MIWOK SHELLS 🐚 = money Shell mound = bank Funny. You can’t eat em build a house with em or wear em
29 posted on 11/16/2018 7:25:33 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: SamAdams76

Happyas a clam in sand where people ain’t diggin’


30 posted on 11/16/2018 7:41:56 PM PST by wxgesr (I wanna be the first person to surf on another planet....)
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To: Laslo Fripp

This can be served as a side, an hors d’oeuvres, or the lead of a meal.

Plessa’s Tavern Baked Clam

1/2 cup chopped bacon
1 onion, chopped
8 Pismo clams, shelled and ground
8 crackers, ground
1 cup chopped celery
Salt, pepper
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
Crushed corn flakes

Saute bacon and onion until browned. Mix clams and crackers and add to bacon mixture with celery and salt and pepper to taste. Stir until bacon fat is absorbed. Add milk and egg. Shape into 4 to 6 patties and roll in corn flakes. Place in well-greased baking dish and bake at 400 degrees 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

This used to be served directly on the half shell from the Pismo Clams. But as they are difficult, at best to get, this is the alternative. You’ll never fry another clam.

When Mr. Lazarus, the last owner and partner of the original family owners, the last died in the mid 1940’s, passed in the late 80’s, the restaurant was sold and went to other things. Last I knew, it was a pizza restaurant. Too bad, that dish was amazing.

This recipe is so famous in that area it is listed in the Chamber of Commerce hand out for the city. If you like clams, this is heaven.

rwood


31 posted on 11/16/2018 7:54:27 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: Redwood71

Copied and saved :-)


32 posted on 11/16/2018 8:12:20 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: SamAdams76

Have you ever heard a clam complain, about ANYTHING? Neither has anyone else.


33 posted on 11/16/2018 8:31:31 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Jamestown1630

Born in Olympia, one weekend my Grandma took me to help her to some part of the bay that was exposed because the tide was out. We picked several limits of something called oysters. You could not walk except that you were standing on them.

We took them home and I helped her shuck them and can them. She also ate may straight out of the shell. I was looking for pearls but never found one.

This would have been in 1953. (Or there abouts)

Yes, Puget Sound was teaming with shell fish and the other kind of fish. But the weather always rained.


34 posted on 11/16/2018 9:12:00 PM PST by KC_for_Freedom
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To: SamAdams76

Happy as a clam at high tide, is the phrase. Clams filter water and feed on organisms there in. Thus when the tide is high there is plenty of food and a clam is happy!


35 posted on 11/16/2018 9:54:16 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: SamAdams76

Too much sand in steamers. My wife loves ‘em, however.


36 posted on 11/17/2018 1:44:17 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Jamestown1630

Ditto.


37 posted on 11/17/2018 1:47:54 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Redwood71
Bacon and clams...sounds delicious.

Thanks.

38 posted on 11/17/2018 1:50:07 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: SamAdams76

the actual phrase is: “happy as a clam at high tide” ...


39 posted on 11/17/2018 9:15:08 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: KC_for_Freedom

My father was in Heaven if he had a beer and a big plate of raw oysters and hot sauce.


40 posted on 11/17/2018 3:39:45 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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