Chorus:
Dig a duck, dig a duck,
Dig a gooey duck duck
Dig a duck, dig a duck
Dig a duck a day

Maybe whoever wrote this song is big in Japan, where a sashimi craze can pluck a peaceful bivalve from its repose and turn it into an obsession. Not here though. Seattleites will gleefully argue whilst sipping lattes as to which is the most authentic sushi restaurant in town, but few of this new school would make it past the first stage in Survivor if they had to catch any of it.

So! Recordparty is here to help you help yourself. Let’s start with a few juicy facts, all of which point to why our city is actually better than New York and LA and blahblahblah that others drivel about. We actually still have critters than can be collected and consumed without having to fork over a wad of cash at a swanky eatery. I digress. Largest burrowing clam in the world? The geoduck. Can live longer than you can? The geoduck. That’s pronounced “gooey-duck”, in case you plan to use it in your next game of Scrabble.

A picture is definitely worth a thousand words on this one. Insert pun that your Uncle would make (yes, that one), utilizing the words “phallic” or “size”. Think back to puberty, and chuckle.

All right here under our noses…or toes…in the lower intertidal areas of Puget Sound. Some do know this, as in perhaps you if you stem from the Evergreen State College’s dominating athletics program, where the geoduck is the mascot. Maybe you can sing us the whole song, so we know how it goes.

The important part of all of this is that the geoduck tastes good, and you can collect it yourself. There’s lots of meaty goodness that can be breaded and fried like steaks, thinly sliced for sashimi, or grounded into chowder and clam-cakes. The collecting part is a bit trickier, but we tell you this because the lowest tides of the year are this upcoming week. If you find yourself on a beach away from the I-5 corridor (think islands and peninsulas), look for someone digging within a can, cussing, bleeding, with a huge shit-eating grin on their face. I’m sure if you help them dig, they’ll tell you all their secrets.