A Pennsylvania guy on holiday in Delaware discovered a marvel in his clam appetizer: a red pearl.

Scott Overland was once eating in Rehoboth Beach when he bit down on one thing arduous in a $14 clam appetizer.

“This was once if truth be told many of the approach during the bowl of clams and I felt simply one thing arduous as I ate one among them, and to start with I assumed it was once a shell or one thing like that after which after I checked out it it was once red, in order that was once roughly odd,” Mr. Overland advised Delmarva Peninsula NBC associate WRDE-TV.

It was once no longer a shell fragment, alternatively, however a red pearl. Although pearls are related principally with oysters, they’re in a position to forming in different mollusks like clams.

“We had by no means heard of a pearl in a clam. I at all times idea they got here in oysters,” Mr. Overland advised USA Today.

Although pearls are related to the hue, pearlescent, that bears their identify, chemical adjustments within the water that filters during the mollusk can regulate the colour of a ensuing pearl.

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“So relying at the … the chemistry of the water the pearl may pop out in numerous colours,” jeweler Paul Cheng defined to WRDE-TV.

The pearl is greater than a supply of toothache.

“You can unquestionably get it graded, and they’re price cash,” Ballard Clam and Oysters spokesman Tim Parsons mentioned to USA Today.