“In Middle English, cod meant "a bag or a sack", or by inference, "a scrotum", which is why the outrageous purse that sixteenth-century men wore at their crotch to give the appearance of enormous and decorative genitals was called a codpiece.” Food AnthropologyFood HistoryCodMiddle EnglishCodpiece Book:Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World