Didn't know there were so many versions of #ClamChowder. I just knew about New England and Manhattan.
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" In the ordinarily sensible state of Maine, the Manhattan versus New England Clam Chowder took an odd turn. In 1939, State Representative Cleveland Sleeper of Rockland, Maine, introduced a bill outlawing tomatoes from being used in chowder. This bill prohibited Manhattan clam chowder in Maine. Though the bill was argued, it never was approved.
As I grew up hearing, "Chowdah: Anyone who calls it 'chowder' would put tomatoes in it."
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So much grief could be spared if people would just RTFM. π