what are little neck clams?

Question

do they have to from little neck

Answer 1

They are small quahogs (Venus mercenaria), a hard-shell clam of the Atlantic coast. Littlenecks are often eaten raw. The next size up is cherrystone, about a half-grown quahog. These are sometimes eaten raw, more often cooked. The full-size quahog is generally eaten in ground-up form, as "stuffies" (baked quahog shells with a quahog-meat and breadcrumb stuffing) or as chowder.
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Answer 2

Called littlenecks on the East Coast and Pacific littlenecks on the West Coast, these small, hard-shell clams have a shell diameter of less than 2 inches. They're usually reserved for eating on the half shell.

quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw

Answer 3

Quahogs are called "little necks" to distinguish them from the other commercially important clam species in the same area, the softshell clam (Mya arenaria), which has a very long "neck" (siphon).
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