Scrod

I heard that scrod was the Smallest Catch,Remaining On Deck. SCROD

I heard it was" Special catch-received on day"

I dont get the joke.. is it a joke?

The joke is that scrod is the pluperfect particle of to screwed.

scrod....Seafood-Catch-Run-Of-Day.

Scrod is a size of fish, used to measure both haddock and cod. Boston Scrod refers to COD...MIKE the Canadian

Scrod is a sohisticated word that has been fabricatd by seafood restaurantsand grocers so they may be able to charge morefor a piece of cod!!!!!!

The word "scrod" was fabricated so restaurants and grocers can charge more for cod that became sophisticated.

If someone were going to make up a name for a fish that would allow them to charge more, they would not choose the word "scrod."

Here's another I heard recently -- ship's catch remaining on board. Or whatever they didn't sell, it goes for cheap.

Anyone remember the Legal Seafoods T-shirt with the trademark fish and the legend "I got scrod at Legal Seafoods"? My brother in upstate NY got some very strange looks when wearing it.

OK, I don'y know HOW FAR BACK some of you go BUT..."special catch" is getting close. WAY back when, Scrod or Schrod was the "best price" dinner fish that day's sale at the pier so it depends is the best answer.Remember too that during that time fish like pollock was chopped up for bait in the traps. So... scrod could be cod (and commonly was) but it might be also be haddock and was generally one of those two "back in the day" when they were both common catch.

I heard it was what the fisherman couldn't sell, and so ate themselves. "SCRaps eaten On Deck"

The word scrod invites derision in many varieties. In the South we have our own names for unspecified protein dishes, such as possum belly, squirrel chitlin's, and hog jaw. Students of language will play with a hall of mirrors which lead to the "screwed" version.The way I enjoyed it was when two old ladies asked the taxi driver where they "might" get scrod. This led to a statement by the language-maven taxi driver with several college degrees stating that he had heard the question a thousand times in a hundred different ways but never in the pluperfect subjunctive.

Actually, the cod scrod or the scrod haddock that I get is cheaper than the large version. The large version also comes with skin on it. So, I'm not sure it was to charge more for it.Scrod? Not tonight dear, I have a haddock.

hahhaha that was funny mark lol i was tryin to really figure out what scrod was and i saw pictures of it kinda looked little different than cod kinda smaller... a girl asked that and i work seafood... i had no idea...

The way my father used to tell the joke was --Girl says to her friend, "Oh, I've got the most wonderful new boyfriend. He takes me up to Boston to get scrod."Her friend says, "Dearie, you don't need to go to Boston to get scrod."

SCHROD NE fisherman usually are not day boaters, and are on the seas fro days at a time. Various species of catch are piled on on another...therefore the freshest on top....It could becod or it could be haddock Thus the term SCHROD was born. The freshest of the Catch

If you believe all the Duck too-ah drivahs and the guy at Legal's with the wicked thick accent, it's Special Catch, Right Off the Dock.

I wouldn't put much faith in tour-bus drivers. They'll also tell you the Castle in Park Square was built by Beacon Hill Brahmins as a hideout from the Irish-rabble rebellion they expected. Also not true (it was built as a National Guard armory).

those of you that are correcting the grammatically incorrrect are assuming these people can spell!!!!!!

just a word-geek note for yahs: acronym etymologies are Almost Never True. my favorite etymology website (sadly, it hasn't updated in over a year) has an entry for scrod at http://www.takeourword.com/TOW128/page2.html

See http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrod and make up your own mind if it is true.

I asked the fish lady at the farmers market for a pound of cod and she replied, "that's not cod , it's scrod". Empirically Scrod is a boneless white fleshed fish filet from the gulf of Maine derived from a small fish less than 2 kilos. What I brought home was niether haddock nor pollack, but probably hake or cod.I had always thought big cod without heads came to market as Steak Cod, lesser fish with heads were Market Cod, and the small ones without head, skin or bone were deemed Scrod. Overfished to death, the Scrod category opened up to any similar species. My guess is the etymology derives from an acronym with the S sianding for Select implying hand picked and premium, thus a Yankee trade term and not a Cornish import.