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The first time I spotted the enormous and bloated-looking phallic clam geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck") in a supermarket in Chinatown, I thought, "How the hell do people eat that thing?" After watching Mike Rowe on the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs prepare geoduck sashimi, I now know. And will have nightmares of the elongated skin being pulled off the meat.
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Preparing Geoduck on 'Dirty Jobs'
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9 Comments:
Wasn't that awesome? I have to admit, "Dirty Jobs" is one of my favorite shows, and I have a crush on Mike Rowe - heck even my 6 yo daughter refers to him as "Handsome" instead of Mike.
Geoduck is good eats. Lots of it can end up chopped up for chowder too. The shows on abalone, crawfish, oysters, shrimp, coffee, taro, lobsters, and crabs were interesting too.
SayWhat at 12:02PM on 03/20/08
this made me terribly queasy!
bitchincamero at 1:12PM on 03/20/08
My teenagers love "Dirty Jobs" & this episode is one of their favorites, for obvious reasons. Much giggling & phoning of friends guaranteed.
Melinda at 1:25PM on 03/20/08
This is one of my favorite segments, and I've probably seen it 4 or 5 times already. Xinh really makes the piece what it is especially with her comments to Mike Rowe such as, "I told you, you crazy." Thanks for posting this one!
LunaPierCook at 1:28PM on 03/20/08
I wish I could eat that geoduck....it is difficult to get good ones these days
Sweetie at 4:11PM on 03/20/08
Xinh: "This one's longer than the other."
Mike: "Yeah, it's like that in nature."
deepitbhatia at 9:36PM on 03/20/08
Well, I hope he went digging for geoducks. Now that is a dirty job.
In Washington State there is (was?) a limit of three geoducks per licensed digger.
It is not to protect the geoduck. It is to protect the digger.
greggle at 4:53AM on 03/21/08
Something Jim Beard wrote about geoduck came to mind when reading this but naturally I've given the book away to someone and can not find what he wrote posted anywhere on the internet (in a quick search).
Instead there was this interesting entry on the Wine Lovers Page quoted from David Kamp's Food Snob's Dictionary .
Quote: Puget Sound Geoduck, an "alarmingly phallic siphon that hangs, John Holmes-like, out of its shell."
Curious. I wonder who John Holmes is.
Off to search.
Amazing the things one learns each day.
Karen Resta at 10:55AM on 03/21/08
Um, John Holmes?
Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holmes_%28actor%29
Famous pornstar from the 1970's who was geoduck-endowed.
jonathankavner at 1:34PM on 03/21/08