Le Grain de Sel Lunch 11-1-16

[amyb]

Alive a live ho-shell fish covers this category, right?

 

[cassidain]

He is puffing up his CV for the new moderator job over yonder.

That, plus getting Gram's Where Am I ? correct should make me a shoo-in.

 

[cassidain]

eh, scungilli !

 

[JEK]

eh, scungilli !

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[andynap]

Conch is scungilli. End of story. I rest my case.

 

[cassidain]

Conch is scungilli. End of story. I rest my case.

ask pascale or islander if homard and langouste and cigale de mer are all the same thing. to an american they're all "lobster".

 

[JEK]

Andy only speaks American.

 

[amyb]

Not so, John. Andy also speaks Italian and I have seen him use Yiddish in his messages too. I have tons of admiration for folks that can communicate in more than one language. I am starting to understand more Francais, but speaking it gives me fits. And my spelling is horrible en Francais too.

 

[andynap]

ask pascale or islander if homard and langouste and cigale de mer are all the same thing. to an american they're all "lobster".

You are really dense. I said conch is scungilli. I never said all sungilli is conch. You really should learn comprehensive English first.

 

[andynap]

Andy only speaks American.

I speak better English than some speak schoolyard French. And with that I bid you and your lackey goodnight.

 

[MIke R]

Conch is scungilli. End of story. I rest my case.

You are 100% correct.....I grew up on my Nonna s scungilli and it was always conch

 

[cassidain]

You are 100% correct.....I grew up on my Nonna s scungilli and it was always conch

You had fresh, never frozen conch from the tropics in the NorthEast US ? FedEx Overnight, I presume ?

 

[MIke R]

You had fresh, never frozen conch from the tropics in the NorthEast US ? FedEx Overnight, I presume ?

No clue ....I was a kid ...but it was conch....for sure...and conch are caught on the east coast ....just not the northern part....

and unlike you I don't need google to identify sea creatures..

would love to take you on a beach walk and pick things up for you to identify ,without your google, and see what you really know

 

[Reed]

There are one or two conch fishermen on Nantucket........Just had a conversation about this the other day when I was told there were conch fishermen out here. Oddly enough, I have never seen conch on local menus. I am told the meat is darker in color from tropical conch FWIW.

 

[MIke R]

Kim....

they are are very similar.....conch are more green colored and whelk are gold ish brown .....one eats only plants I think it's conch ....I ve seen both conch and whelks come in on trawler nets when I was ground fishing

 

[andynap]

No clue ....I was a kid ...but it was conch....for sure...and conch are caught on the east coast ....just not the northern part....

and unlike you I don't need google to identify sea creatures..

would love to take you on a beach walk and pick things up for you to identify ,without your google, and see what you really know

Occasionally I would get a conch or two in my crab traps in New Jersey. I tried to cook it and tenderize it but no go- too tough. So it was either buy it at the fish store or in a can.

 

[cassidain]

There are one or two conch fishermen on Nantucket........Just had a conversation about this the other day when I was told there were conch fishermen out here. Oddly enough, I have never seen conch on local menus. I am told the meat is darker in color from tropical conch FWIW.

Kim, doing some nosing around online, i do find several stories about commercial whelk fishing operations in the Boston/Cape Cod area. They harvest channel whelks, but popular nomenclature allows the term "conch" interchangeably for them. Even within the same articles talking about harvesting, preparing, marketing the channel whelks they will refer to them sometimes as "conch".

 

[andynap]

What are we trying to prove here anyway?