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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Clam Chowder - Clear soup rather than white for New England CC or Red for Manhattan style CC
Hot dogs - real thin and orange, served with a mystery meat sauce
Pizza - sold long and thin, and often cold? Vermont sold these at convenience stores in the '70's too.
No idea about the others.
Stitchawl
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I'm pretty sure I remember eating a clear clam soup on motorcycle rides along the coast... But clear, red, or white, I think clam chowder is going to be tomorrow night's dinner!  (I prefer New England style.)
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Stitchawl has 3 out of the 5, so I'll turn the quiz over to him. If anyone wants to guess on the other answers I'll wait until tomorrow before I tell you the answers.
Their clam chowder is indeed clear, but it is also made with a clam called a "quahog" that is indigenous to Rhode Island. I like the clams, but clam chowder without cream is just wrong. Luckily, even most places in RI serve the NE style too. By the way, RI is in NE.
Their hot dogs are called "Hot Weiners" or "New York Systems". Apparently some Greek guys started selling them here way back in the day, and they called them New York Systems to give them an air of authenticity, but they had no connection to NY. The hot dogs are similar to the Coney Island hot dogs sold in Detroit (which were also sold by Greeks not from NY). They're smaller than a normal hot dog, have a squirt of mustard, a meat sauce on top, some chopped onions, and garlic salt. They're not bad, but they also have a hot dog place up here called "Spike's Junkyard Dogs" that roughly follows the Chicago style, but are served on freshly made buns that are outstanding (no poppy seeds). Best hot dogs I've ever eaten and I've lived in Chicago. New York's hot dogs suck.
The pizza is Rhode Island is awful. They actually serve three styles here. The first is as Stitchawl described long, thin, an cold. They're pretty much just thick pizza dough with tomato sauce on top. They're made in Italian bakeries and are called "pizza strips". I can't stand the stuff. The pizza place that routinely gets voted as the best pizza in RI is a place called Caserta's. If you remember back to grade school when they made pizza on those big square aluminum sheets then you've tasted this pizza before. Awful! The third style they are known for is actually pretty good. A couple decades ago a place called Alforno's started serving a grilled pizza (yes, they grill it). Now they're are a few places up here serving grilled pizza. I actually like this stuff.