Pearl in clam dinner

[mps9506]

Kinda news/Kinda OT. But just plain cool.
NPR : Florida Man Finds Pearl in Clam Dinner

 

[Dentoid]

Wow that is cool! I grew up in Florida and we would go clamming down in Ft. Desoto and off the Skyway Bridge beach. We would always find pearls in the clams we got, but they were the worthless white, chalky ones. A purple one is rare indeed!

 

[mps9506]

We are oyster lovers here in NC. Usually find sand or a bit of fecal coliform in the shellfish here j/k

 

[Dentoid]

Nice! :barf:

 

[mps9506]

Unfortunately it's been a fact of life for us in Southeast NC.
EPA cites city for 103 sewer spills since ’01 | StarNewsOnline.com | Star-News | Wilmington, NC
103 sewage spills into the intracoastal waterway, estuaries, creeks and sounds in 7 years with over 4 major spills this year alone. Shellfish fisheries get shut down routinely now. At least with this drought stricken year the sewage system didn't get a major workout.
It's a mess here.

 

[Frankie]

I wonder what it is worth?

 

[Dentoid]

A gemologist told The Palm Beach Post the pearl could be worth thousands of dollars.

 

[mps9506]

I wonder what it is worth?

Clam craving led to find of rare quahog pearl

 

[Dentoid]

Mike is that story the same as the one reported in the first post you made?

 

[mps9506]

Nope, the second pearl story is from 2 years ago. The first one was reported end of Dec.

 

[Dentoid]

We should start eating more quahogs!

 

[mps9506]

As long as they don't look like a geoduck...

 

[Dentoid]

 

[mps9506]

I didn't realize Quahogs are littleneck clams. silly common names...
Oceans Alive - Northern Quahog

 

[Dentoid]

That's funny, because growing up in Florida we never called them clams, we called them quahogs.

 

[mps9506]

I've never heard that term, but I've lived in California, VA and NC most of my life so...We call them good with butter.

 

[Dentoid]

We used to wade out in thigh high water feeling for them in the soft sand with our feet. It was always creepy when something would race across or out from under your foot! I'd come home with the worst sunburns and we'd have a quahog feast.