Well subby I guess you didn't hear the one about the cockle who went to a seafood disco and pulled a mussel.

Cockles are awesome, smothered in vinegar.

enjoy one last dish of cockles, collected fresh from the other side of Southend.

farking English.

Cockles are awesome, smothered in vinegar.

Ack. Sorry, got to disagree. Can't stand 'em. Cockles, mussels, whelks, eels ... Wouldn't eat them to save me life.

This is the end of a great Salisbury institution. For many of us, Saturdays will never be the same!"

I felt the same when The Herculoids stopped airing.

SherKhan: I felt the same when The Herculoids stopped airing.



"The Herculoids can not hold my loin cloth"
- Exerpt from Thundarr interview on "ABC's Saturday Morning Preview Show" (1986) (previously unreleased)

Cockles, whelks, and winkles?

Hm. You could arrange those into a pretty nice prefix menu.

I stand by my statement about English, French and Scottish food.....

I'd rather starve to death...

That's just shellfish, submitter. What an Englishman does with his cockles is his own business.

"...and finally among the lamellibranch bivalves, that most depraved of the whole sub-species - the whelk. The whelk is nothing but a homosexual of the worst kind. This gay boy of the gastropods, this queer crustacean, this mincing mollusc, this screaming, prancing, limp-wristed queen of the deep makes me sick."

/obligatory.

I prefer Molly Malone's.

I was in Salisbury during the summer to see Stonehenge, Avebury etc, nice town. The Haunch of Venison pub was awesome - hundreds of years old, haunted, great range of beers, has a "hand of glory" and Eisenhower and Churchill met there to plan D-Day! Is there a cooler pub on the planet?

I tried to show my cockles and whelks at the market but people screamed and then I was tasered by the police. This guy gets a farewell party?

I'll take a geoduck over a cockle any time!

This story warmed the cockles of my heart.

RocketRod: I prefer Molly Malone's.
Thank you for beating me to that. It makes me feel better about Fark, although the fact that it took this many comments worries me.

Cockle:


or geoduck:

"Peter Johnson has been selling cockles - and sometimes whelks and winkles - at Salisbury every week for 44 years."

I just posted in the new-word thread from the Sun that they're just making up words across the pond. Now I'm convinced of it.

hankhorsey: This story warmed the cockles of my heart.

Warms the shiat outta my cockles.

RocketRod: I prefer Molly Malone's.

Heh...first thing I thought of.

In Dublin's fair city
Where girls are so pretty
Twas there that I first met
Sweet Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Mussels,
Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh
Alive, alive oh, alive, alive oh,
Crying,
Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh

Now she was a fishmonger
And sure twas no wonder
For so were her mother
Ad father before
And they each
Wheeled their barrows
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying,
Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh


She died of a fever
And no one could save her
And that was the end
Of sweet Molly Malone
Now her ghost
Wheels her barrow
Through streets
Broad and narrow
Crying,
Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh

Mr. Johnson sold cockles.

Guess Mike Hunt sells tuna then, eh?

Best description of a cockle I ever heard is "like a martian clitoris"

Tastes pretty much the same too.... if you like that kind of thing...

Molluscs - a live documentary (popping goodness)

/martian clitoris

I hate cockles, they taste awful and give British cuisine a bad name, along with deep fried Mars bars and over-cooked slop.

/Proper fish & chips FTW!

some attorney: "Peter Johnson has been selling cockles - and sometimes whelks and winkles - at Salisbury every week for 44 years."

I just posted in the new-word thread from the Sun that they're just making up words across the pond. Now I'm convinced of it.

The song "Molly Malone", which is from the 19th century, would disagree with you. Cockles, mussels, whelks and winkles are types of shellfish. Shellfish from the mussel family includes clams. The winkle (aka periwinkle) is a small edible sea snail. Cockle is the common name for bivalve mollusks.

Bathia_Mapes: some attorney: "Peter Johnson has been selling cockles - and sometimes whelks and winkles - at Salisbury every week for 44 years."

I just posted in the new-word thread from the Sun that they're just making up words across the pond. Now I'm convinced of it.

The song "Molly Malone", which is from the 19th century, would disagree with you. Cockles, mussels, whelks and winkles are types of shellfish. Shellfish from the mussel family includes clams. The winkle (aka periwinkle) is a small edible sea snail. Cockle is the common name for bivalve mollusks.

Forgot to add that the whelk is a variety of large, edible, sea snail.

i call bs fredcat . i think you would.

I tell you, we wouldn't stand a whelk's chance in a supernova.

I am allergic to shellfish, so I'm really getting a big kick rash out of these replies....

maybe he'll retire to solsbury hill
/just put it on, actually

Peter Johnson has been selling cockles

He needed the money.

I have no idea what the fark was going on in that article yet I am still uneasy.

DaWormyPimpsta: Mr. Johnson sold cockles.

Was that Mr. E. Normus Johnson?

hankhorsey: This story warmed the cockles of my heart.


Maybe even below the cockles? Maybe in the sub-cockle area?

How come Google doesn't have a British-English setting?

Bathia_Mapes: some attorney: "Peter Johnson has been selling cockles - and sometimes whelks and winkles - at Salisbury every week for 44 years."

I just posted in the new-word thread from the Sun that they're just making up words across the pond. Now I'm convinced of it.

The song "Molly Malone", which is from the 19th century, would disagree with you. Cockles, mussels, whelks and winkles are types of shellfish. Shellfish from the mussel family includes clams. The winkle (aka periwinkle) is a small edible sea snail. Cockle is the common name for bivalve mollusks.

I don't understand how a song can disagree with me.

I heard the cockles are better when smothered in martian clitoris.

real shaman 2007-12-29 11:39:24 AM
I stand by my statement about English, French and Scottish food.....

I'd rather starve to death...


You're including french food? You do realize there's more to french cuisine than escargot?







Besides, escargot is yummy if you look at it less as a snail and more as a garlic and butter vehicle.

Loyal customer Keith Denham said: "I have been in Salisbury for most of my life and have had a long association with Peter's stall. I will miss him and his cockles."

I wonder if Peter's stall has a hole in the side.

I used to live in Salisbury when I was a kid. We used to buy a pint of cockles from this guy every Saturday. If you were really hungry you could get a saucer of them to eat with a chip fork in the middle of the market. They were best with a lot of salt and vinegar.

/They were actually pretty good
//Yes I am getting a kick out of these replies, thanks for asking.

Man, look at that 'S' car go!

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

British food is terrific. I've had wonderful spicy lamb kebabs, curries, a vindaloo hot enough to make me sweat, and some awesome gai pad ped.

jet_silver: British food is terrific. I've had wonderful spicy lamb kebabs, curries, a vindaloo hot enough to make me sweat, and some awesome gai pad ped.

You're pegging my irony meter here. Stop it.

HoneyDog: Cockle:


or geoduck:

This proves there is no intelligent design!
Shell's too small for his body!

Just this past week I got hot butter all over my cockles.
It didn't tickle, I tellya.

/Fark: for the seafood lover in you!

Hot butter AND lemon juice. It stung.