"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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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. :-)



So, something which existed long before you were born no longer exists
because you don't like the name? That's rich! :-)

Main Entry: 2chowder
Function: noun
Etymology: French chaudière kettle, contents of a kettle, from Late Latin
caldaria -- more at CAULDRON
: a soup or stew of seafood (as clams or fish) usually made with milk or
tomatoes, salt pork, onions, and other vegetables (as potatoes); also : a
soup resembling chowder