Chowder provides a cold medicine-filled dummy (made from a vacuum cleaner and some other objects) that should cause the house to sleep long enough for them to douse the furnace.
en.wikipedia.org It can also refer to one or more kinds of commonly consumed marine bivalves, such as in the phrase clam chowder, which refers to shellfish soup.
en.wikipedia.org Raw bars serve a selection of oysters and quahogs, and sometimes supplement the menu with cooked versions of the same seafoods such as clam chowder, oyster stew, and steamers.
en.wikipedia.org Over the course of a year, the factory will make over 500,000 pounds of fresh chowder.
en.wikipedia.org Much of the cuisine started with one-pot cookery, which resulted in such dishes as succotash, chowder, baked beans, and others.
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