ep03 Clam Chowder

There is not an American dish, but baseball is an American game. You can find a famous popular song in Nikolai's opera, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Can you imagine that? This is Lindsay McCarry back with you once more to spread the good tidings that things are not what they seem.

Your friends were going to present a series of odd facts and unusual news stories in just a moment or two, so stay with us. Here's our first tidbit of audiology.

It's another of our origin of words. When you dig into a steaming bowl of Boston or Coney Island clam chowder, you probably think that you're partaking of a genuine American dish. Or maybe that it might have come over on the Mayflower.

But you're wrong? Yes, sir. Chowder was originated by the Fisher folk of Brittany on the coast of France. All the villagers used to bring their contributions for the common cauldron, to which of course various kinds of fish and bivalves were added.

The name of the cauldron itself gave the dish its name. CHAUDI-RE. Sojare. E-I-E-R-E, so jare, and when the early American settlers learned to concoct this robust delicacy, they called it as best they could, chowder.

Can you imagine that? Well, how well do you know your Bible? Do you remember this passage? For thus sayeth the high and lofty one that inhabited eternity, whose name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to receive the Spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

That is the fifteenth verse of the fifteenth-eventh chapter of the book of the Prophet Isaiah. And within that brief quotation, the word eternity is used the only time in the entire Bible for thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabited eternity.