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Submissions featured pine trees, golden codfish, Mayflower ships, lighthouses and even the USS Constitution.
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
For an authentic Martinican experience, order a plate of accras—crispy, tender codfish fritters — and a Ti-Punch cocktail made with the island’s famous rhum agricole, a unique, AOC rum produced from local sugar cane.
—Martinique Tourism Authority, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Dishes include fresh tuna steak in olive oil and codfish filet with butter beans.
—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
Shaq’s menu includes burgers, fries, catfish, codfish and Nashville hot chicken.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
The bestsellers are their coconut fish burgers and codfish fritters.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024
Developed in England in the 1950s as a codfish lure, the Red Gill eventually migrated across the Atlantic, where surfcasters quickly put it to use.
—Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
In the massachusetts statehouse, high above the gallery in the house of representatives, directly opposite the painting of John Hancock proposing the Bill of Rights, there hangs a five-foot-long wooden codfish.
—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
For an authentic Martinican experience, order a plate of accras—crispy, tender codfish fritters — and a Ti-Punch cocktail made with the island’s famous rhum agricole, a unique, AOC rum produced from local sugar cane.
—Martinique Tourism Authority, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Dishes include fresh tuna steak in olive oil and codfish filet with butter beans.
—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
Shaq’s menu includes burgers, fries, catfish, codfish and Nashville hot chicken.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
The bestsellers are their coconut fish burgers and codfish fritters.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024
Developed in England in the 1950s as a codfish lure, the Red Gill eventually migrated across the Atlantic, where surfcasters quickly put it to use.
—Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
In the massachusetts statehouse, high above the gallery in the house of representatives, directly opposite the painting of John Hancock proposing the Bill of Rights, there hangs a five-foot-long wooden codfish.
—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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“Codfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codfish. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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codfish
noun
cod·fish
ˈkäd-ˌfish 
: cod
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