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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie
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Oh, such an innocent looking link.
A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he prepared a bill to make it a crime to pollute clam chowder with tomato.
If found guilty, offenders would be sentenced to digging up a barrel of clams at high tide – which, as any clammer will tell you, is not only cruel and unusual punishment, but impossible.
