Oh my -- must everything be explained to you two in chapter and verse?

Research has naught to do with it, bassie. No reasearch required. Simply
put, if its got tomato in it - so-called "Manhattan style" - it ain't clam
chowda. Period.

Typical flim-flam wherein New Yorkers, frantically casting about for any
little thing that they could put forth as having made their high-density,
relentlessly frenetic lives seem a bit more enviable and sophisticated, took
something that had already enjoyed centuries of success and acceptance in
its own right, and claim to have made it their own by *******izing it beyond
all recognition. :-)