What's for certain is that the modern version was created by Bing Crosby, who started hosting his annual "clambake" in 1937.

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Take that clambake on Wainscott Beach, for example.

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Almost all lobster places offer numerous options like mussels and clams in with the lobsters for a true clambake style feast, plus the usual accompaniment is hearty New England style clam chowder (god forbid Manhattan style).

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No sporting event has greater popularity or higher stakes than soccer's World Cup, and they manage to sort that whole clambake out in about a month with a round-robin group stage that shifts to a single-elimination knockout round.

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For the Wiesenmaier family, sitting around a long, fold-down picnic table, drinking wine from plastic cups and preparing for a clambake of lobster tails and slow-roasted potatoes cooked by two chefs on an enormous outdoor grill, this pristine corner of the US eastern seaboard has tonight been transformed into America's most exclusive restaurant.

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