Word: cod
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While teammates such as junior third-baseman Steffan Wilson toiled away in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League, Meehan, Byrne, and Brown enjoyed the slightly more relaxed atmosphere in Hawaii...
...Lampoon members captured and held hostage the Sacred Cod that hangs in perpetuity over the House chamber in the Massachusetts State House. This wooden cod’s effigy both symbolizes the importance of fishing to the Bay State’s early economy and serves as an unofficial good-luck-charm to representatives. As a result of its disappearance, Massachusetts state police were forced into conducting a statewide cod-hunt; woebegone representatives refused to legislate without their fish...
...When the cod was anonymously returned several days later, legislators and police laughed off the thievery and no one was ever charged for the crime. As a result, the Lampoon’s members obtained an outlaw reputation that they felt obligated to refresh every so often by committing new, even more fiendish pranks. By contrast, if the police had obtained search warrants to invade the Lampoon Castle, carted off evidence, and arrested Lampoon staff, future members likely would have been too fearful to commit another prank for years...
...fats," says Jeremy Selwyn, 36, a Boston software engineer who runs reviews of more than 3,300 snacks on taquitos.net and for the past three years has been an attendee at Snaxpo, the snack-food industry's annual trade show. He bemoans the loss of fried flavor in Cape Cod--brand potato chips after their switch to canola oil. "Snacks aren't supposed to be healthy," he says. "They're supposed to taste good." Those are the kinds of statements that get you high fives in the back rooms of Snaxpo...
...Although Nobu Matsuhisa operates restaurants in 13 cities around the world, this is the first to open in Asia outside of Japan. Patrons of the Hong Kong Nobu can expect the signature dishes that have made their creator famous-yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño, broiled black cod with miso-as well as those devised to suit local ingredients. If this isn't sensory stimulation enough, floor-to-ceiling windows offer sweeping views of the Hong Kong island skyline and Victoria Harbour-a body of water that has partially inspired the interior design. Over 7,000 black river stones cascade...