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almejas fluorescentes

English translation: glowing / gleaming clams

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Spanish term or phrase:almejas fluorescentes
English translation:glowing / gleaming clams
Entered by: Noni Gilbert Riley

17:02 Jun 16, 2010
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Cooking / Culinary / Menu
Spanish term or phrase: almejas fluorescentes
Tempura de merluza a la cerveza negra (main item)
pisto - almejas fluorescentes, crunch espinaca - pipirrana(included with main item)
What do you make of this? The literal translation makes me think it ought to be a pop group.

Recently opened restaurant (central Spain), attached to a cookery school. Extravagantly phrased menu to put it mildly.
Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 03:26
glowing clams
Explanation:
It seems there is actually a type of clam that glows:

http://atlasobscura.com/place/glowing-clams-great-britain
Selected response from:

Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:26
Grading comment
Thanks Simon
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5glowing clams
Simon Bruni
4fluorescent clams
Leonardo Lamarche
3Radiant clams
Muses Inc
3iridescent clams/gleaming clams
Cecilia Gowar
Summary of reference entries provided
Gleaming clams
Lisa McCarthy

Discussion entries: 2





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
glowing clams


Explanation:
It seems there is actually a type of clam that glows:

http://atlasobscura.com/place/glowing-clams-great-britain


    Reference: http://atlasobscura.com/place/glowing-clams-great-britain
Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48
Grading comment
Thanks Simon
Notes to answerer
Asker: The things you learn.... and I see that the common piddock (why do things always sounds so naff in English?!) also lurks in the Iberian peninsula.... Oh what fun.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  James A. Walsh: I don't see what else it could be. Fascinating stuff!
3 hrs
agree  Lourdes Sanchez: who wouldn't want to have a dish of glowing clams?
5 hrs
agree  Rachel Fell: luminescent clams? "The creature is luminous, to such an extent that ...the immersion of a single piddock in half a pint of milk created a luminous glow sufficient to make faces recognisable in the dark..." Alan Davidson, Penguin Companion to Food
6 hrs
agree  Isamar: I trust that they are served in the dark to heighten the effect?!
15 hrs
agree  Evans (X): sound a bit radioactive to me!
15 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
fluorescent clams


Explanation:
It is just an invented name, thus why not literal?

Leonardo Lamarche
Venezuela
Local time: 21:26
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Radiant clams


Explanation:
Gee, pretty kinky in the disco too! Fluorescent clams does not sound very appetitive. Radiant seems better. Are these painted clams that light up under UV-lamps???

Muses Inc
Netherlands
Local time: 03:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 7
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
iridescent clams/gleaming clams


Explanation:
A couple of ideas.....
How are you going to translate "crunch espinaca", "spinach crujido"?

Cecilia Gowar
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 162
Notes to answerer
Asker: Good question... I "snuck the rest in" to see if anyone would take the bait... But at least I know what it is!

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Reference comments


2 hrs
Reference: Gleaming clams

Reference information:
CGowar's suggestion of 'gleaming clams'. Only a couple of refs, but it's a good a possibility:

Ducasse and Robuchon - Battle of the giants | Tasting Notes & Wine ...
... martini glass, four **gleaming clams** stuffed with new season's garlic on a bed of sea salt and a panache of lambs' sweetbreads and kidneys with girolles. ...
www.jancisrobinson.com › Nick on restaurants - Cached
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Jollers Riding .By Bathers Lolling, Cavorting, Stretching Md Sunn ...
**Gleaming clams** on the half-shell . Golden grilled bass . Crunchy cole slaw and crisp, hot Frenchfried potatoes sky . Calm at twilight . ...
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19410330&id...

The Post and Courier | Charleston.net | News | Charleston, SC
Again, the pasta was perfectly cooked, providing the ballast for a bounty of **gleaming clams** still in their just-opened shells. The broth was stellar. ...
v1.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=25487§ion=preview - United States

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 172
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