Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-12-29
when IS AZ BLUE
POINT ! NOT la
BLUE POINT?
Whenever the Dealer Hasn't
Got EN- and Doesn't Want
to Miss a Sale; Sea Food
Fakes

only about one person In thou-
sand who orders the luscious hivaivr
known M the Blue Point really gets
the genuine article. The reasons for
this are simply: FIRST. because very
few Blue Points are raised. and, sec
ondiy. because the supply Il usually
marketed In November and December.
This brand o. oyster takes IT, name
from being grown on beds In the VI
cinity of Blue Point. in Great south
bay, Long Island. The water there Is
very shoal.
In consequence. whom the nowling
winter nor 'westers blow I'M they vlrtu-
ally empty the bay. any oysters an the
beds freeze. To forcstail the loss the
wise oyster longer becomes active and
markets Blue Points In the fall. II IL
thus seen that the reason they are so
small Is that they have had only one
summer IN which To grow. A full six-
ed oyster In that latitude requires two
or three years 10 mature. Nevcrthe-
less you can find blue Points on
bills of fare In Kansas City at almost
any time Of year
Every locality has It's pet brand Of
oyster. Boston has ita Cape Gods.
New York It's saddle Rocks, phlladcfr
phia its cape May salts, Baltimore,
Washington and Norfolk their Lynn
havens. Each place il willing ia
wager that It's particular biyalye Il the
most luscious In the world. Not being
particularly averse 10 starting trouble,
the writer wishes 10 state that. having
been born In New Jersey oyster rails
ing community. reared near the most
famous oyster beds OF New York and
having eaten mollusks harvested along
every coast IN the United atatea. he
would lay wager on The Bayou Cook
oyster, raised Ia the Gulf ~ Mexico,
for first place IN the great oyster
sweepstakes. and on the Maurice river
coves raised In Delaware bay for SEQ.
ona place. There are many who Will
agree with me In this oyster rating
As summer approaches. persons who
have enjoyed their Blue Points until
! the advent of the r-less month % May
Will. with the same sans froid. ordes
half dozen Little Neck elaine AZ a
prelude to n repant. They set Them
not. The Little Neck clam Is a thinn
OF the past. lie. the genuine. tnkel
his name from Little Neck bay, which
lies just where the East river joins
Long Island sound.
the title, therefore. n not derived
from any particular formation 81 tbs
/ clans anatomy, a. most people be
lieve. CLANS. unlike oysters, cannO
Il be cultivated on beds prepared for th'
purpose, but are found In what nr'
termed natural beds. A number o
/ yenrs ago one OF these great naturn
beds WAS discovered IN Little Neck bay
the products o. which were 81 tn
most toGthsomc and tender variety
The md was Immediately bounced up
ON By clam rakers from far and near
and the reputation OF the Little Nccl
was made. Although u took only
few years 10 exhaust tho supply. near
~ every clam from every bed In IN
country has since bnakcd IN the re-
Elected STORY OF that Little Neck har
vest. and you can sim buy 'genuln'
Little Necks" In any sea food smpor
inm from Maine 10 California.
There are many people who do no
know that hard shell eraOs and Sof
Ahell crabs are Identical, the only dlf
tinctlon being that the soft shell cral
,for which YOU pay about three time
aG much AZ for the hard shell variety
II simply the crab caught lmmedlateb
latter he hiss backed out II his old ahel
and within two or three days Of ~
time when the skin that covers HI
lbody has had a chance 10 harden INT