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Chowder is a thick soup enriched with salted pork layer of fat commonly called as fatback. The soup is thickened by adding flour; traditional chowder usually contains crushed saltine crackers or ship biscuits and milk along with other ingredients. The soup has fish or shellfish, clams and vegetables such as onions, potatoes, in either milk or tomato base. Originally chowders were made with seafood but of the late any kind of thick and rich soup that has chunks of ingredients in it is termed as chowder. The most commonly used ingredients to prepare chowder are potatoes, onions, cream or milk, clams and flour (to thicken the soup). Having originated as a poor mans dish, chowder has grown to be the favorite food of scores of people all over the world. Clam chowders are especially popular in the U.S.
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