Scrod

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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).

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