#787 – Presley

When I was a kid I knew clams as tiny strips of some sort of vaguely edible rubbery bread crumb covered food type item. I liked them. Then one year I was on vacation in Cape Cod. We stopped at a roadside shack place for lunch. My mom and sister got clam sandwiches and encouraged me to get one. I really didn’t see how what I knew as “clams” would work on a sandwich. One bite from my mom’s sandwich and I have never eaten those little rubber things ever again.

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36 thoughts on “#787 – Presley”

  1. speearr says:

    If that fails, try Bluetooth.

  2. Matt Lee says:

    I’m using wireless right now. And there’s nothing better than having a good wireless chat with a clam.

  3. PsychoDuck says:

    @speearr:

    And if even that fails, force it to watch the Super Mario Bros. Movie. It will gladly shuck and kill itself just to stop the pain.

  4. Michael says:

    On all the cooking shows I see where they cook clams, the general practice is to steam them or stir fry them. The ones that open up are good to eat while the ones that stay closed were dead before you started. You’re supposed to chuck them out since they’re probably already bad.

  5. fluffy says:

    When I was a kid I really liked liver and onions for some reason, or at least I thought I did for some reason (maybe it was something a character in a book I read liked?). Then one day I ordered it at a restaurant (even though my mom warned me I wouldn’t like it) and learned that no, I didn’t like it at all.

  6. Dirrus says:

    I used to love fried clams as a kid too. But one day I got them in a place that served them with the ‘bellies’. I bit one in half and looked in it. I haven’t been able to eat them since…

  7. i.half4 says:

    Odd that someone should mention liver. I was just remembering that I loved that as a kid because my mom sliced it thin and fried it coated with bread crumbs. Given that I now know liver absorbs toxins, I would have to say that kids are rightly instinctive about that flavor. Parents: do not deceive your children with bread crumbs.

  8. Linzleh says:

    Ah…remembering little, breaded fried clams at Howard Johnson restaurants…yum. Shake, rattle and roll, or shuck and jive; another “King,” yes, Elvis has left the building. Good luck Biff opening those fishy nuggets…

  9. TCC says:

    …. I don’t get it… could someone explain this clearly obvious joke that everyone seems to get but me?

  10. Nilly says:

    @TCC: Clams are damn hard to open. They can even break the knives meant to open them.

    I’m not much for clams. Let’s just say a little movie called Mr. Bean’s Holiday ruined that for me.

  11. Mophtran says:

    Clams? Not so much. Mussels cooked in a beer sauce and other yummy flavorings? NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.

  12. TCC says:

    lol! no no, i knew clams were hard to open! I meant why is he trying to use his wireless internet to shuck the clams? I assume “shuck” is also some kind of internet slang or something, but I want to be sure…

  13. Rasheed says:

    I LIKED Super Mario Bros movie! Of course I won’t say it’s great, but Bob Hoskins always turns in a good performance.

    In 9th grade biology, we didn’t dissect clams, but we did squid. Then the teacher fried them, and we ate them. My first experience eating mollusk. I might still have some part of an eye saved somewhere.

  14. Kratospie says:

    What can’t the internet do these days.

  15. baughbe says:

    I are being edumacated!. Looked up and shuck is also slang for a scam or hoax, and thus the clams must be from Nigeria.

  16. Vosur says:

    Give me a jackhammer, I’ll take care of that clam.

  17. Ziggy Stardust says:

    Clam chowder is YUMMY. I salute you, Chesapeake Bay.

  18. Space Butler says:

    How can you not like clams? So sad…

  19. dartigen says:

    I’ve never had clams, but I have had fresh (as in, still-dripping-water fresh) oysters. I have to admit that they taste best that way. Cooked, they lose a lot of flavour, and as oysters kilpatrick the bacon is a little overpowering.

  20. Radical Edward says:

    I don’t really like clams.

    As for Biff, I think that using wireless may not yield the results he wants.

  21. Cari says:

    @ TCC and baughbe:
    “shuck” is an actual term for opening a clam and removing the meat. I’m not an expert, so if someone knows better, please elaborate.

    Howard Johnson’s fried clam strips were a special vacation treat when I was a kid. We only ate at HoJo’s while we were on vacation, so I’d only have them once or twice a year.

  22. Chef Damien says:

    Actually, to clarify this… You shuck oysters, not clams. Clams and mussels are typically steamed – and they open themselves, provided they aren’t dead already (an easy test is to tap on any open mussels or clams prior to cooking – if they don’t close, they’re dead and you should throw them. The same applies for mussels and clams which don’t open during cooking – chuck ’em.)

    Either way… It looks to me like the theme has to do with utilizing improper tools/equipment to cook seafood.

  23. tom says:

    Raw clam is not rubbery. Nor are cooked clams when done right. Well… if you get really old (and by old, I mean “time spent alive”, not “time spent dead” — fresh fish or no fish, I say) shellfish of any variety, it gets rubbery.

  24. i.half4 says:

    I’m still with TCC, so far someone has helped fill in the musical clues for the clueless among us, but I don’t get what The King has to do with seafood, and I don’t get the internet thing either.

    Nigeria? How does that fit in?

  25. Shieldman says:

    Biff would be better off with a LAN connection.

  26. Sman says:

    hey Chris, i have a question. Does Biff play ‘the game’?

  27. MontyFang says:

    At last! I make it to the most recent comic!

  28. Jono says:

    For the music reference- Elvis did a song called “Do the Clam” written by Sid Wayne, Ben Weisman, and Dolores Fuller.

  29. Chef Damien says:

    Chris… That’s interesting, actually. I’ve never once heard of a reference to anyone shucking clams and serving them on the half-shell, as it mentions on that ehow page. Then again, I never claimed to know everything. 😀 Auguste Escoffier, a well-respected French chef, was 80 years old or so when he stated that he had never stopped learning new things – and he’d started as an apprentice when he was… 12 or 13, if I remember correctly. Thanks for the link! 🙂

  30. Qmarx says:

    Clearly he needs to take the clam to the prom.

    That would get it to come out of its shelll.

  31. Nokore says:

    My dad eats clams and oysters raw. I have NO idea how he does it; I prefer them fried.

  32. Eugene says:

    I have a cousin who also loves raw oysters and clams, ever since I dared her to eat one at a seafood buffet when we were kids. It was the last time I dared her to do anything, ever again.

  33. lajekahr says:

    @TCC: I was assuming that since he couldn’t get the clam to “open up” with a knife, he was trying to get it to “open up” by communicating with it. Since wireless pierces anything, then his message to open up would pierce the clam shell.

  34. YukiSnowflake says:

    clams – no
    posh sausages – no
    cheapo store brand full-of-crap sausages – YUM!
    (*mmm… pig intestines… lol)
    |:p

  35. ameil159 says:

    seafood week?

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