On the way out of the restaurant Justin and I spotted live geoducks in a tank! In my opinion, they are the strangest-looking creatures alive. So I went home to research on them, and here's what I discovered:
I've been pronouncing "geoduck" wrong all my life! It's actually pronounced GOOEYduck. Ok, that only makes it sound even grosser.
To be honest I had a frightful time looking for a photo. To quote Wikipedia, the siphon has a "phallic shape" (heh heh), but that's not really the problem for me. The fact that it looks like a giant evil monster slug bursting out of a tiny shell scares me. I can't look at the photo very closely -cringe-
Apparently they use the long thing to burrow and eat plankton. It bursts out of its shell so much that sometimes the 2 clam shells aren't even connected anymore. Ridiculous, really!