The geoduck (pronounced “gooey duck”) is the world’s largest burrowing clam, and they’re one of our weird and wonderful native species—as well as the school mascot for The Evergreen State College. Geoducks can grow up to three feet long and live an average of 140 years, but that’s not what most people notice right away. Their appearance is rather suggestive, and while there’s some dispute over the origins of the name, it’s likely that the name refers to its resemblance to a certain body part. Serious Eats described it thus: “Let’s be clear: if anything, the geoduck looks like the grotesque, wrinkled schlong of a deformed hippopotamus.” While often enjoyed as sashimi or ceviche, this large clam also makes a good chowder and is sometimes prepared as simply breaded and fried. Locals can dig for geoducks when the tide is super low, but it takes determination to snag one as they burrow deep into the sand. If you’d like to learn more, try reading the full Serious Eats article here: All About Geoduck: The Life of a (Delicious) Oversized Mollusk.
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Local Flavor: Geoduck: The geoduck (pronounced “gooey duck”) is the world’s largest burrowing clam, and they’re one of our weird and wonderful native species—as well as the school mascot for The Evergreen State College. … (#Geoduck)
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#Geoducks (genus Panopea/#Lushootseed gʷidəq) are such icons of the #SalishSea that the pronunciation of their name has become a test of Northwesterness, and with good cause: their ancestors have been in the region for a long time. The #OlympicPeninsula has yielded several #geoduck #fossils dating back to between 20 and 30 million years ago, and this #FossilFriday I share with you all a #Miocene geoduck from the #Clallam Formation next to its modern relative, the largest burrowing #clam.
Watching this episode of Pro Chef & Home Cook Swap Ingredients... Geoduck is clearly not of this world. It is very clearly an alien.
This is a Geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck"). People dive for these in the shallow waters of the Hood Canal off Hama Hama and Humptulips, Washington.
I always wonder about the first person who saw one of these things and thought "Hmmm, that looks tasty!"
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I thought that the #geoduck was a fan name chosen because the creature looked like a crossover between a Geodude and a Golduck but nope, turns out it’s the closest thing to “Gʷídəq” that the English colonizers could pronounce (can’t blame them, Salish languages are hella hard)
