Digging the Ipswich Clam

Thijs Messelaar
8 min readAug 21, 2014

When we were little boys, Dad instructed my brother and me on how to properly eat one.

Using your hands, pry open its shell, pull it out, slide the loose, dark foreskin from its penis, slosh it vigorously in a hot broth of its own juices until clean, then dunk…

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