Meaning of cod liver | Babel Free

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The liver of codfish.

countable, uncountable

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“The menhaden ester fractions were worked up more thoroughly than the cod liver esters, but it was assumed, on the basis of the indicated similarity, that the cod liver oil possessed essentially the same composition as the menhaden. […] Bell (1851) wrote that pigs which ate cod livers became very fat, and their fat acquired the color and odor of cod liver oil.”

“Community Chick Mash / Yellow corn meal or hominy, feeding oat meal, wheat bran, wheat middlings, red dog middlings, alfalfa meal, dried milk, choice meat scraps, fish meal, precipitated bone meal, calcium carbonate, cod liver meal, cod liver oil, salt.”

“The Berliners stuffed themselves with fish. They ate cod and cod livers by preference, because this was a fatty, tasty dish and not too expensive. It was true that after eating cod liver you smelled of it for a long while, but the Berliners were highly vitamin-conscious by now—and rightly so.”

“They spent 40 days aboard Soviet vessel off Southern Labrador and observed fishing and processing of cod and ocean perch into fillets, canned cod liver, cod-liver oil, dressed cod and perch, and meal.”

“Canned cod liver is available any place, as are smoked flounder and German caviar, not to mention a wide selection of sardines.”

“A few years ago, during the 50s, there was no problem with cod liver. […] We could buy this product anywhere, in Quebec City and in Montreal; this canned cod liver was excellent, much better than the product which is now being sold by Denmark. […] I think we could do something about this cod liver which is produced on the Labrador Coast. […] Not only that, but most of the fishermen I talked to, in Newfoundland for example, the mere idea of eating cod liver makes them sick.”

“Ate cod livers bought in Arlit – awful.”

“Zviltsov remembered that everyone looked towards the refrigerator for protection against radiation poisoning. The crew ate cod-liver pâté and drank vodka. Both were thought to be effective but he still praises the properties of vodka: ‘One hundred and fifty grams of vodka after a day’s work eliminated any radiation effects and restored the metabolism,’ he recalled.”

“It was the height of the cod season, and the south shore was lined with stages and flakes for heading, splitting, and drying fish, vats for rendering cod livers into oil.”

“Today there is more demand for cod liver than is being supplied from the ungutted fish brought ashore for processing (Ogmundsson, 2005). All the liver brought ashore is being utilized and most of it is used for the production of cod liver oil for dietary supplementations (Table 12.4). However, there are still large quantities of round fish liver discarded at sea. Another popular food item for many is canned cod liver but the availability is low and the annual production in Iceland has only been ~200 tons mostly due to lack of raw material.”

“He was hit by a hundred different scents at once. Myrrh, sulfur, mustard, rotting cod liver.”

“I do not know if you study it, but seals eat cod liver. We have heard that sometimes, the seal does not eat the rest of the fish. They just eat the liver because it has fat and they do not get hungry.”

“And eagerly we awaited Baballa’s holiday zakaz, the elite take-home package of defitsit goods from Gosstroy. You never knew what each year would bring. I prayed for the buttery balik (smoked sturgeon) instead of the prestigious but disgusting canned cod liver.”

“The Inuit ate cod livers with bilberries, cranberries, and crowberries.”

“Inuit children in Greenland already have high concentrations of lead and mercury in their blood, people living along the coasts can no longer eat cod liver or seabird eggs, and women who nurse their babies must live with anxiety at the thought of the environmental toxins that leave their bodies along with their breast milk.”

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