Talk:Hard clam

message: Is this article a stub? -Bannus 21:13, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is more of a start- or B-class article. --Gray Porpoise 21:10, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I've also lived in that area, and I've never heard heard "kwa-hog" (except for obvious mis-pronunciations).  Has anyone?  If not, I think it should be removed from the article or mentioned in a parenthetical as a less common alternate pronunciation.  --Gruepig 16:04, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I run quahog.org and have had reason to talk with a number of people about the pronunciation of the word. The most convincing explanation I've heard for the ko/kwa difference is this: The common name, poquauhock, is taken from the languages of the Narragansett and Wampanoag Indians, and it's thought that today's pronunciation can be traced to those origins. The Narragansetts, from the west side of Narragansett Bay, probably pronounced the word "po-kwa-hok." Today's western Rhode Islanders thus pronounce it "kwa-hog." The Wampanoags of the East Bay and southeastern Massachusetts called it "po-ko-hok," and today, residents of those areas likewise say "ko-hog." With few exceptions, my experience has born this theory out.--Cscm 15:05, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This makes sense to me - one species, one article. But whoever does the merger should take some care to place the article under the more common/global name. I always thought "quahog" was a regional name, but I have no hard evidence to back that up. | Klaw ¡digame! 22:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge Makes sense to me too. It is on Family Guy but I don't think there's an actual town named Quahog. Kerowyn 10:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: I added the part about Stu Hamm because it's true. Look it up, the song has his arrangement of "Linus and Lucy". Casual Karma 02:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stu Hamm 

message: One really should distingusih between the Ocean Quahog - Artica Islandica, and the hard clam - Mercenaria mercenaria. Particularly because outside the greater Rhode Island region the word Quahog normally refers to the Ocean Quahog, as its natural habitat is the majority of the North Atlantic.
* I've created an Arctica islandica article. Akriasas 07:56, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arctica Islandica 

message: Littleneck redirects here; however, here on the Washington coast, littlenecks refer to the Native littleneck clam, Protothaca staminea. Should this be noted somehow? There is no article for Protothaca staminea. Right now if someone from the West coast were to look for information on littlenecks, they'd get confusing information (since it'd be about the wrong clam).--H-ko 05:37, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The Pacific littleneck is a completely different species and should not be confused with the Atlantic variety. Aside from the taxonomical difference, there's also a linguistic difference: "littleneck" refers to the west coast clam, while "little neck" refers to the east coast clam (the latter being named after Little Neck Bay). Ideally, the article should be edited to reflect this. The picture of "steamed baby clams" near the bottom of the page should also be edited, as it is, ironically, a picture of west coast littlenecks, not baby quahogs.Philozine 23:06, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Littlenecks 

message: The part of the article that uses the BBC as its source is an exact copy of what is written in the original article. Douggers 04:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

message: According to The Register an example found in Iceland was counted to be 405 years old (e.g. it saw William Shakespeare) based on its covers' ring structure. That is roughly twice as much as the 212 years recently found for a kind of giant whale. 82.131.210.162 11:56, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quahog: oldest animal ever! 

message: Written perspective seems biased, defensive, and lacking both information and formality.  What fines are levied against commercial harvests, for example?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.10.142.105 (talk) 20:07, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red tide section violates wikipedia standards 

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message: Can someone add to the section about Culinary use about how clams can be served raw? How do you get the shells open? Rachel Pearce (talk) 10:31, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eating raw clams 

message: The quahog is native to eastern North America, and everybody calls them quahogs or littleneck clams. So why does everything else redirect to a term nobody even uses? 76.105.136.241 (talk) 19:35, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main title Quahog not "hard clam" 

message: Does this page possibly need some cultural referencing to Family Guy, I've not looked for sources but surely it's not coincidental that the main town in Family Guy is called Quahog and a lot of the "lore" around the founding of the town involves Clams? Or is this link made elsewhere? (See season two episode 12 "Fifteen minutes of shame"). There is a disambiguation link for Quahog but nothing on this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leftred (talk • contribs) 22:10, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural Reference