Another decent thread sent down the toilet. Don't you guys have anything
better to do than argue over chowder?


"basskisser" wrote in message
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John Gaquin wrote:
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.

Really? What do you have that states such? Who ever told you that
chowder can't have tomato in it? This is what dictionary.com has on the
subject:

chow·der ( P ) Pronunciation Key (choudr)
n.
A thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and
vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.
A soup similar to this seafood dish: corn chowder.

Notice is says right there "milk OR TOMATO base"????

From Merriam Webster:

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


Notice is says right there "milk OR TOMATO base"????


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. :-)

Please show me any research that states that a chowder can not contain
tomatoes.....