Oysters are deep water loogies, boogers or cold water snots.
Clams are shore-line or low-tide loogies
Mussels are blue boogies
Snails are sling-shot snots. Not periwinkles, they don't fly straight.
For boys 8 to 14 these along with segmented sand worms and baby eels were dare food (live worms and eels).
At least that's what I remember from growing up in the Oyster Bay area.
A more recent addition to the seafood dictionary came from a relative from Germany. She refused to eat shrimp because they remind her of garden grubs and she refered to them as bugs. Funny thing is that she is not wrong.
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