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Finally watched this video that seemingly everyone I know sent me because the know I have opinions about clam cakes, and holy cow, does the Iggy's guy come off like an asshole. I don't even know where to begin. https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/the-battle-of-rhode-islands-clam-cakes/5f199cee210c511ec003e54c
"Clam cakes, that's what put Iggy's on the map." Excuse me? Your place is literally called Iggy's Doughboys and has been since you opened.
"I'm always striving to get busier and be the best." Yeah, no shit. Your entire marketing strategy was to put coupons in every local newspaper for years. "[Is Aunt Carrie's] doing the same thing? I dunno." They don't have to get busier, because they already are the best.
The video glosses over the fact that this jerk thought his clam cakes were so good that he could open across the street from a 75+ year old institution and compete with them in 2000 (not "22 years ago"). Dude literally called it an invasion.
I haven't had Iggy's in years, but those clam cakes look like they were made by a clam cake-making machine. Yet he brags about dipping them in chowder, something far more difficult to do with a round clam cake than an oblong one. A round clam cake is just a clam hush puppy.
The only reason people started going to Iggy's in Point Judith once it opened was because they didn't want to wait for a table at Aunt Carrie's. And the only reason anyone goes back to Iggy's is because they've never tried Aunt Carrie's.
This is about clam cakes, but it's also worth pointing out that Iggy's "house" chowder is Manhattan style, and they didn't even add Rhode Island-style chowder (clear) to their menu until 2014.
Anyway, if you find yourself near Narragansett, Rhode Island on a weekend this month, stop by Aunt Carrie's and raise a beer to toast their 100th Anniversary... something you can't do at Iggy's because they don't have a liquor license. Because Iggy's is garbage.
