Yeah, and come to think of it, do they even HAVE fried clams down where Panhandle Bob lives?
Shrimp, yes, thanks to all of those Vietnamese Shrimpers out of Mobile, but good old New England Fried Clams? I dunno.......
Regardless, they're probably not big enough (puny little clams that they probably are from the Gulf) that you could never get a Clown Sticker on them, unlike an average Rhode Island Quahog!