<P> The meal's components may include some combination of anchovies, whiting, lobster, sardines, dried salt cod, smelts, eels, squid, octopus, shrimp, mussels and clams . </P> <P> The menu may also include pastas, vegetables, baked or fried kale patties, baked goods and homemade wine . This tradition remains very popular to this day . </P> <Ul> <Li> Baccalà (salt cod) with pasta, as a salad or fried </Li> <Li> Baked cod </Li> <Li> Clams casino </Li> <Li> Cod fish balls in tomato sauce </Li> <Li> Coryphaena (dolphinfish) </Li> <Li> Deep fried calamari </Li> <Li> Deep fried cod </Li> <Li> Deep fried fish / shrimp </Li> <Li> Deep fried scallops </Li> <Li> Fried smelts </Li> <Li> Insalata di mare (seafood salad) </Li> <Li> Linguine with anchovy, clam, lobster, tuna, or crab sauce </Li> <Li> Marinated or fried eel </Li> <Li> Octopus salad </Li> <Li> Oyster shooters </Li> <Li> Puttanesca traditional tomato sauce with anchovies </Li> <Li> Scungilli salad (sea snail) </Li> <Li> Shrimp cocktail </Li> <Li> Stuffed calamari in tomato sauce </Li> <Li> Stuffed - baked lobsters </Li> <Li> Stuffed - baked quahogs </Li> <Li> Whiting </Li> </Ul> <Li> Baccalà (salt cod) with pasta, as a salad or fried </Li>

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