On 4/12/2012 4:18 PM, Chemo the Clown wrote:
> On Apr 12, 1:29 pm, > wrote:
>> "Tom Del > wrote in ...
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>>> On Good Eats they said if you keep clams in fresh water for a few weeks
>>> they detox themselves of polutants from the ocean.
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>>> Don't they have to eat something over a period of a few weeks? You don't
>>> want them to die obviously.
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>> I've heard you should feed them cornmeal.
>
> We get clams all the time. Fresh. We take them home, put them in a
> pail with cold water and cornmeal. they open up a little bit and spit
> out any sand.

Cold water and cornmeal always worked for us.

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Janet Wilder
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