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  • Yeah, usually that really thick, bleach-white chowder is frowned at. Really traditional chowder only uses the starch from the potatoes and cream to thicken it, and it’s more soup-like than the kind that’s basically the consistency of soft-serve ice cream. Really traditional chowder would someotimes used crushed ship biscuits (hard tack) as a thickener, which is why some people use flour/roux these days. Hard tack is basically the progenitor of modern crackers, including the often served oyster crackers. I like a crusty sourdough myself. Better for the mop up work!

    Rhode Island, a suburb of Boston (😁) has an interesting chowder that has a clear broth that is pretty good too. It’s basically identical minus the heavy cream. Great for people that don’t get along with lactose.

    Also, pro tip, if you don’t have fresh clams, get a bottle of clam juice to add to taste. Usually you steam the clams open and then take out the meat and chop them up for the chowder, and you use the steaming juice leftover to add more clam flavor, as desired. Bottle of clam juice does the same basic thing (without needing to strain out the grit).

    Usually the best chowders aren’t brilliant white. They’re a little darker like yours and almost look a little “dirty,” for lack of a better word. If someone served me a bowl of what you made, I would expect it probably will taste great just from the eye test.


  • New England chowder comes in about 15 “main” ways to make it. It’s pretty different from region to region in New England and even house to house. Just eyeballing this, it looks pretty legit. Some in the mighty northeast might accuse you of “being fancy with it,” but it looks great to me.

    Bacon is kind of a west coast addition because their clams are wicked shitty, kid. Salt pork is used, but crispy bacon less so. And traditional chowder isn’t thick. Finally, some might quibble with carrots, but that’s definitely one that you’ll see regularly with and without. This doesn’t look overly thick to me, and I’ve done bacon add at the end and it’s hard to say it’s not great!











  • Writing a number on someone with a marker is not branding. This is stupid. The IDF is committing actual atrocities, and this article is about writing a number on people with a marker and referring to them by that number. Relatively humane prison systems refer to people by their inmate number as well.

    What is even going on? This is literally a distraction from the actual terrible things regularly occurring. Think about it this way: within the horrifyingly violent context of Palestine right now, here is an entire article that could be headlined: “IDF Uses New Weapon Against Palestinians: A Marker.” See how absurd that is when there are much more important events occurring?

    Who wrote this? The IDF?



  • Ah, I see. Well, let me say this: seeing a grocery store parking lot filled with giganti-merican vehicles is always obnoxious.

    But why couldn’t you use the truck bed?? It’s like the one time they could have actually put it to use! You’d think they’d be all about it. Like guys (and it’s always guys) that carry a pocket knife and someone actually needs a knife for once. They practically cry they’re so happy.


  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world[meme] American grocery shopping.
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    Maybe I misunderstood the OP. I thought they were saying they were in a huge truck and the person they were with got so many groceries that it filled the truck bed and full-size cab and they even had to have groceries in their lap. I get they’re trying to be critical of large vehicles, which I’m all for, but the way they went about it is so confusing that it pulled all my attention trying to figure out the bizarre context they were trying to manufacture in order to say big truck bad.

    It seems like a tremendous amount of groceries would actually be the extremely rare case where having a truck might serve a purpose. You know… once.


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    …I honestly don’t understand this meme. Where do you live that people are using huge vehicles to fit all their groceries? I guess I’ve seen it visiting a friend’s family that lives out in the country. The “big” grocery store was an hour away, so they would get like several weeks of groceries at a time. Maybe I’m just not understanding the point of the meme.