The pioneer express., 1912-01-19

Other FISH.
NO ] 70 GENUINE ! :: LITTLE zc,;,s.
/ Those luscious CLAIMS Are Thing .oi
f the Past. and eius Fo.nt Oysters An
Mighty seares. Yet You May Buy
Thorn Almost Evsrywhsrs.
Only about one l,er,s,n in 4 thou
saild who orders the. luMioux bivaive
known m the Blue Point really gets
the genuine article. Tue reasons TOR
this are simply. nrat. l,ee7luse very
few Blue POinta are raised and. sex.
oildlly. hets,use the supply IL usually
mnrketed in November nnd IDet'eMlM,r.
This brand Of oyster tukes itx nnme
from being grown OH beds In the vi
cinity of Blue Point. in Great South
bay. Long Island. The water there IL
very shoal.
In consequence. when the bowling
winter nor'westera blow till they vir,u.
ally empty the bay. any oysters On the
beds freeze. To f0restall the l.,ss lh-
wise oyster tonger becomes active uul
markets Blue Points in the fall. 1t liz
thus seen that the reason they are ~,
small In that they have had only one
summer In which tO grow. A full aizel
oyster In that latitude requires two
or three years to mature. Neverthe-
less you can tind "lslue Points nn
bills of fare IN Kans,s City at almost
any time Of year.
Every locality has its pet brand of
oyster. RGston has Its Cape Gods.
New York its Saddle Rocks. rhiladel.
phia its Cape May Salts. Baltimore.
Washington and Norfolk their Lynn
havens. Each place IL willing to
wager that its particular blvaive IL the
most luss'iOlix In the world. Not being
particularly averse to starting trouble.
the writer wishes to state that. having
been born In Il New Jersey oyster rails
ing community. reared near the most
famous oyster beds Of New York and
having eaten mollusks harvested along
every coast Of the United States. he
would lay wager on the Rayou Cook
oyster. raised In the gulf of Mexico.
for. f1rst place In the great oyster
sweepstakes. md ON the Maurice river
coves raised In Delaware bay for sec-
ond place. There are many who will
agree With me In this oyster rating.
As summer approaches I,ersons who
have enjoyed their Blue Points until
tbe advent of the r-iexx month Of May
will. With the same sang froid. order
half dozen Little Neck CLANS ~ pre-
|ude to u relMxi. They yet them-not.
The Little Nqck clam II thing Of the
past. He. the genuine. takeH his name
from Little Neck bay. which lies Just
where the East river joins Long Island
sound. o.,
The title. therefore. 10 not derived
lrom any particular formation Of the
rlam's anatomy. AZ most paop.e believe. 4
CLAIMS. unlike oysterx. cannot Be culti-
rated on beds prepared for the pur.
Ix,se. but are found In what are termed
natural beds. 4 number Of years ago
,ne Of these great natural beds was
in Little Neck bay. tho
pr,lucta Of which were Of the most
toothsome and tender variety. The
ind was Immediately. pounced upon BY
rlam rakers from far and near. ana
The reputation of the Little Neck was
made. Although Il took only q few
FEARS to exhaust the supply. nearly
very clam from every he'd in the coun-
:ry has since basked In the reflected
glory Of that Little Neck hnrvest and
vou can still buy genuine Little
Necks'' in any sea food emporium from
Maine to California.
There are many people who do not
knOw that hard shell crabs and soft
she'll crabs are Identical. the only dis
'inction being that the noft shell crab
for which sou pay about three times
IA much ax tor the hard shell Variety
Il simply the crab caught Immediately
after lie has backed out Of his old shell
md within two or three days Of the
lime when the skin that covers his
body has had n chance to harden into
the new shell. SOft shell crabs. like
certain Irish products. can be ''eaten
,kin and nll.'' They cnn b.. fried and
mnde very i'nlatahle. whereas the crab
With his regular shell in place has to
be dug out Of his nrmor and eaten In
fragments or served under the menu
titles .deviled crab.' ..crab hakes'' or,
'crab sMlad''
Tie popular food finny members Of
The nsh family have aa many inter-
rating characteristics an their she'll
rlrd brethren. For instance. all the
hotels and restaurants that serve ..gen-
uine'' Rlue Points and LITTLE Necks
heretofore referred to also set forth
with the snme degree of equanimity
llllet of sole IA In anything that sounds
I'aintnble,. The proportion Of the gen
uine to- the real article In the c.sxe Of
this commodity = even lesa than with
the RlMe Points.
The truth tx Tint. about ninety-nine'
times O,lf Of Il, hundred the chefs take
our old friend fhe plpbeian founder.
or flatfish. md drpss him M an
Frenchmnn. for re,sl HDle In this conn
try must lH. imported frOm French