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Cod loins

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From Ellen Seebacher on Facebook, this puzzling ad:

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Cod loins?

Loin is an unusual body-part term. AHD2 on the word:

the part of the body on both sides of the spine between the lowest (false) ribs and the hipbones.

• (loins) chiefly literary the region of the sexual organs, esp. when regarded as the source of erotic or procreative power: he felt a stirring in his loins at the thought.

• (loin) a large cut of meat that includes the vertebrae of the loins: loin of pork with potatoes.

The trick is to figure out what the counterpart of the loin(s) is on a fish. For comparison, here are graphics of cuts of beef in US and British usage:

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(#3, Brit)



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