Thanksgiving in a sushi roll

Peter’s Clam Bar sold these Thanksgiving-inspired rolls.

Rebecca Melnitsky/Herald

Most Thanksgiving meals do not include sushi — except at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park.

For the week of Thanksgiving, Peter’s Clam Bar served a Thanksgiving sushi roll. The roll is made out of stuffing, turkey, mashed potatoes and asparagus wrapped in seaweed with cranberry “caviar” on top and cranberry sauce on the side.

The mashed potatoes could be replaced with sweet potatoes.

“We sold a lot of them already,” said Butch Yamali, owner of Peter’s Clam Bar. “If it keeps up we’re just going to leave them on the menu as a regular item. It’s easy enough to do and turkey is good. And you get your whole meal in one bite.”

One Thanksgiving roll is $7. The Thanksgiving roll was also available at the Thanksgiving day buffet at the Coral House in Baldwin.

Executive Chef Chris Seidl came up with the idea for the Thanksgiving roll. “It’s a spin on Thanksgving,” said Seidl. “It gives us the opportunity to show that we’re diverse, we do different things around here, and that’s really what it’s about.”

This is not the first time Peter’s Clam bar had an unusual Thanksgiving food. Another year the restaurant had Thanksgiving turkey with Twinkie stuffing. “Something that my mother used to make for my brother and I when we were very young,” said Yamali. “Because she didn’t like stuffing so she would break Twinkies in it. And it was very popular so we did it at the Coral House.”