A hernia is the protrusion of an organ or piece of tissue from its normally contained space. In the abdomen, a hernia usually involves a piece of bowel, or omentum, which is a fatty apron that hangs down from the midportion of the colon (large intestine), protruding through a weak area in the abdominal wall.
Haddock and Cod are both endangered species fish-we eat far too many of them. The sustainable fish that has the nearest taste to both Cod and Haddock is Polluck-lovely white flakes of meat with a very delicate flavour.
The kind of scrod they deal in is ordinary market cod or haddock between four and eight pounds which has been scrodded by the manner it is split open and dressed. Even a 50 pound fish is a scrod, if dressed in a certain way, declared the salesman.