“…It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into little flakes;
the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt.
Our appetites are sharpened by the frosty voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favorite fishing food before him,
and the chowder being surpassingly excellent, we dispatched it with great expedition…”