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Lol, no. It's because they sold HJ fried clams in the frozen food section of supermarkets for decades, and it was a featured item on the actual restaurant's menus (like IHOP = pancakes).

Frank Zappa is cool but even his most ardent fans have to concede that his songs and lyrics are pretty obscure.

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I can't disagree with any of that, but I only know about it from that song, so, anecdote two, I guess.

Your comment is implicitly backed by a false dichotomy. Some people (based in USA and old enough, for example) will know about it from direct experience. Other people know about it only from Billy the Mountain.

Thanks Mr. Literal. Obviously not true that nobody knows it from the song, since the OP posted it himself. But the ratio is likely 9-to-1 or better.

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