Scroddle
Posted By Blair Lovern in Square Pegs on March 23, 2007
So I'm entering this little story about some high school students helping Fort Worth ISD create a new school lunch menu. About 20 kids will surrender their mouths to determine what tastes good.
I notice this from the FW ISD release: "Students will taste a variety of food items including: taquitos, pizza, burritos, fish scroddle, breaded beef patties and a new menu item – the pepperoni calzone."
Scroddle? I don't think anyone knows what the hell that is, except that it's a form of scrod, which no one knows what the hell is, either.
The King of Mysterious Whitefish, Captain Gorton, says scrod, or schrod, is the "market name used interchangeably for young cod, haddock, and sometimes pollock, tomcod, true cod (Pacific), arctic cod, Greenland cod, Alaska cod." So, it's whatever the hell you want it to be?
I remember school lunch fish being a punishment to all the senses, but I don't know what particular fish to blame it on. Good luck, FW ISD.
Meanwhile, I saw the ad below on Captain Gorton's site. Can you imagine getting this thing as a birthday present? I'd feel sorry for a kid who got it and didn't ask for it. But what if a kid had asked for it? Geez.
NateDawgUNT, says:
Must...have...that...Cube.
So weird, the only word that comes to mind is "un-holy".
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sisterhazel, says:
Old joke. Tourist comes into town, big seafood buff. He gets into a cab, asks the driver, "Where can I get scrod?" Cabbie turns around, looks at him. "Bud," he says, "I've been asked that many times, many ways. But that's the first time I ever heard it asked for in the pluperfect subjunctive."
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Laura Seewoester, says:
"Scrod" is an all-encompassing word much like f@#%. But whereas f@#% is mostly used as your "dirty verb" expressing action, scrod works as your "dirty noun" targeted by the action. It's quite universal and is most effective when used in a Boston-like accent.
ie: Yer nothin' but a scrod licka! or, I will kick you square in the scrod.
This is my favorite of the definitions provided by <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scrod">Urban Dictionary</a>
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