Cloudy, drizzly, 49 F, dark, dismal. I'm going to go get some of that homemade clam chowder that "She Who Must Be Obeyed" has just finished making!! YUM 
Cool!
We had salmon chowder for lunch. (our seafood comes frozen or canned and from a truck not a boat, around here 
) It really "hit the spot," though.
Well, our clams came chopped in a can. Even though we live in Maine. That far inland you wouldn't know about "fresh seafood". But, canned clam chowder hit the spot as well! And to be honest, canned or frozen seafood can be just as tasty in a good chowder! Corn can also be made into a decent chowder. I am really going to miss Fried Clams, when we move to NY State in a few years. That can only be enjoyed fresh off the clam flats!
I used to buy canned clams, emulsify them and add some to a Bloody Mary. Mmm!
I actually do know what fresh seafood is like. I grew up along the Gulf coast. Fishing the gulf was a frequent pastime for me, in my wilder youth. Boy, do I have some stories to tell. I used think that someday I will have tried every fish known to swim.
We ate quite a few scallops and oysters, but our clams were dug up from the river mud. You could also go gigging for fish along the sand bars, before they outlawed it.
There were places where you could be a half a mile from shore in knee deep water. We had been years without a hurricane in those days. Then we got several mild ones in a short span of years and the sand bars were gone.
