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I would love to try both New England and Manhattan Clam Chowders. I'm sure both varieties taste good.

I was at Durgin-Park, a very old (and rather touristy) restaurant in Boston, that serves old-time New England food with a somewhat surly attitude, once when a nearby young man ordered clam chowder. When the waitress brought it to him, he looked at the creamy bowl and said "I thought it was the other kind." I always wondered if he did that on purpose to get a rise out of the waitress.

Of course "Manhattan clam chowder" is neither historically from Manhattan nor a chowder. Portuguese immigrants in Rhode Island modified the New England recipe and the scornful New Englanders called it the worst insult they could think of: they said that was how they did it in New York.

Alas, the meaning behind their insult didn't become nearly as famous as the dish itself.

It is where it matters.

The interesting thing is when I moved to Houston, the people here were trying to explain Houston's rivalry with Dallas. I just smiled and said "It's like Boston and New York."

There is also a Rhode Island Clam Chowder, which is more both-based (brownish), not cream- or tomato-based.

I guess there are plenty of other local variants, but RI is the most likely to be found outside of its home turf (although not nearly as common as NE or M styles).

Cool. Another soup for me to try!

An ex-friend of mine called herself the Soup Queen, because we had different views on eating animals. Those differences had nothing to do with us no longer being friends -- we just drifted apart, as so many people do.

Yeah. It's sad that it happens that way sometimes.

I know I've reconnected with a lot of people through Facebook. I also like that I've managed to hold on to my LW friends.

As one of your LW friends, I second that.

During my brief flirtation with Facebook a few years ago, I attempted to reconnect with a few people. It was just my luck that none of them were on Facebook.

Other than relatives, relatives of relatives, and friends of relatives, the farthest back I know anyone I've friended on Facebook are some folks I met when I was in middle school and high school.

I have so many acquaintances on Facebook that I've learned to become careful with privacy settings. Usually, when I post pictures (and some status updates) I make them visible only to family and close friends (including folk from LW)!

I'm occasionally tempted to create an FB just for the cats. But... nah. I can barely put any work into all the pages I'm already supposed to be working on. Forget it.

I sympathize, I don't post much content anymore myself. I mostly just use Facebook to keep updated on my interests

When I first joined FB in 2007, most of my friends on it were students, people who had recently been students, academics, and fellow librarians who, like me, were trying to learn about interacive Web applications.

My mom joined FB before I did. I had to keep asking her about features and etiquette.

Well today is the first day of classes. I am so nervous.

Break a leg, BraJa!

Not literally, of course.

One of my aunts took to Facebook like a duck to water. I think it's rather telling that we don't get along.

Some of my FB friends can be quite annoying, with all their game requests, random messages, comments turning conversations towards themselves, updates that consist of nothing but hashtags...

Does your aunt do any of those, Fanfie?

I've shut off notifications for all those games. I don't get them.

I shut them off one at a time too. I don't play any of them and I doubt I ever will.

At one time, I played Words With Friends on Facebook. Now, I play it exclusively on my phone.

I used to play it too. I haven't touched it in 5 years.

They only games I play involve words or trivia. I usually have several Words With Friends and Scramble With Friends games going at once. I've played Words with (at various times) Dev-Em, Mattropolis, and Suddenly Seymour, though I have no games with a Legion Worlder going now.

I enjoy Sporcle because you have trivia games AND logic games, and even some math ones. What I like best is that trivia games also allow you to do some critical thinking. For example, there is a series of games asking you to name UN members who joined per decade. I can draw on my knowledge of history, plus some good guessing on which countries became independent first.

(Hint: a lot of African countries gained independence in the 60s!)