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Steamed clam and pearl

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Brock’s meal: The purple pearl Photo: AP

Imagine biting into your seafood and coming up with a pearl. Not likely, you would say! But Mike McHenry in New Jersey and George Brock of Royal Palm Beach, Florida, wouldn’t agree with you. Brock came up with a rare purple pearl in his dish of steamed clam while McHenry found a pea-sized one in his fried oysters. The suppliers of seafood in both cases were left speechless. While Brock’s pearl is quite valuable and is worth thousands, McHenry was not so lucky. His find was misshapen and discoloured but he’s not complaining. “It’s a souvenir I’ll put on my bar, maybe,” he told the Associated Press.

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