Posted: 8/21/2009 11:10:13 AM EDT
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The only way to eat clam chowder is with crackers and to do it completely correct make it oyster crackers. Agreed?
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Don't put all the crackers in at once. With a good amount of fresh ground pepper.
Just be careful of asking for fresh ground pepper in some places. In a local joint where i frequent, I asked for it and the waitress poured some pepper out on the table and smashed it with the shaker, 'There's your fresh ground pepper honey." LOL I love this place! |
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Don't put all the crackers in at once. With a good amount of fresh ground pepper. Just be careful of asking for fresh ground pepper in some places. In a local joint where i frequent, I asked for it and the waitress poured some pepper out on the table and smashed it with the shaker, 'There's your fresh ground pepper honey." LOL I love this place! Most agreed I usually put crackers on in three to four phases during the meal. By the time I'm done I will polish a whole ream of crackers. |
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Manhattan is like Cincinnati Chili to me. WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?!?! Just for clarification - Cincinati chili isn't bad because they serve it over spaghetti. Chili needs a good starch pairing. I prefer cornbread myself, but if you just really like noodles or something then whatever. No, it's bad because it's not chili. It's this strange meat sauce that's horribly bland. If you don't use chiles, it's not chili. I'll give a pass to "mild" strength, fine. Not my thing, but you can still call it chili. But when it's just ground beef mixed with Ragu? 
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Manhattan is like Cincinnati Chili to me. WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?!?! Just for clarification - Cincinati chili isn't bad because they serve it over spaghetti. Chili needs a good starch pairing. I prefer cornbread myself, but if you just really like noodles or something then whatever. No, it's bad because it's not chili. It's this strange meat sauce that's horribly bland. If you don't use chiles, it's not chili. I'll give a pass to "mild" strength, fine. Not my thing, but you can still call it chili. But when it's just ground beef mixed with Ragu? Cincinati chili is just spaghetti sauce. Again, Clam Chowder is white. Crab Soup is red |
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Ok, I can understand Texans trying to dictate how to prepare and serve chili, but don't you go trying to tell New Englanders how to eat chowda!! (Yes, real New England Clam Chowder has to be eaten with crackers, sourdough is California and is just wrong, and don't get me started on the red abomination they call chowder in New York) |
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Here's a chowder recipe from 1828: Take any kind of firm fish, cut it in pieces six inches long, sprinkle salt and pepper over each piece, cover the bottom of a small Dutch oven with slices of salt pork about half boiled, lay in the fish, strewing a little chopped onion between; cover with crackers that have been soaked soft in milk, pour over it two gills of white wine, and two of water; put on the top of the oven, and stew it gently about an hour; take it out carefully, and lay it in a deep dish; thicken the gravy with a little flour and a spoonful of butter, add some chopped parsley, boil it a few minutes, and pour it over the fish - serve it up hot. |
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Ok, I can understand Texans trying to dictate how to prepare and serve chili, but don't you go trying to tell New Englanders how to eat chowda!! (Yes, real New England Clam Chowder has to be eaten with crackers, sourdough is California and is just wrong, and don't get me started on the red abomination they call chowder in New York) I'm allowed to, since I grew up in MA and left when I was 18. I'm trying to convince my fellow Texans that clam chowder is white and it must be eaten with crackers. ETA: I agree with all your points made. |
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Dude, you're from Texas. You should know that any kind of soup or food eaten from a bowl is better with cornbread. So that's the answer. If you're going to make clam chowder in Texas you need to make cornbread to eat with it.
It's not that hard. BTW: You need to amend your poll to add cornbread. |
