I wrote an article a few years ago which I published on LinkedIn called Be more cod: your success as a freelancer depends on these essentials.
It was based on a Billingsgate trader’s assessment of the pollock and the cod.
“Lovely piece of fish,” he said of the pollock he held up for the camera. “Lovely bright colours and that sort of thing. Tastes like shit.”
He picked up a cod and held it with one hand by its mouth, its tail pointing up to the market’s ceiling.
“This is a fish,” he said proudly, as if he’d raised it himself. “Its strength is still there. That’s the muscle tone in the fish. It’s been swimming in the North Atlantic, feeding on the right products since the day it was born.
“If that cod’s a human being, it goes to the gym every day, it eats all the right food, it probably drives a Porsche.
“The pollock’s sitting at home on the settee in a tracksuit watching Jeremy Kyle or eating a burger.”
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