Collection: Frozen Haddock Fillets

WAREHOUSE SALE HADDOCK? THE BACKSTORY

Pretend you are a bookstore warehouse... What would you do if this pallet arrived on your loading dock on the eve of your biggest book sale of the year?

We asked that question in the form of a caption contest on social media. >Thank you to everyone who submitted a caption on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Twitter.

We even got a call from the Boston Globe, asking, wait, "is the haddock tweet real?" (Reporter Spencer Buell got to the bottom of things: "The Harvard Book Store was expecting a shipment of books. A pallet of boxes marked ‘haddock filets’ arrived instead. Warehouse workers panicked, but it was only a red herring.")

CAPTION CONTEST - HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Who ordered the pallet of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, 3,479 Green Haddocks? —Beth Collins
• So Long, And Thanks For all the Fish (Douglas Adams) —Donna Johns
• “One of the booksellers got confused when we said to order more copies of Moby Dick” —@bostonbacklist
• Check nearby restaurants and see if they have my books… —@Michele15726608
• Which carton has the goddam packing slip —@yrstrulyrel
• All hands on deck 🙌 —@michescotthandmade

CAPTION CONTEST - RUNNERS-UP

• Assume it was a marketing stunt for Mark Kurlansky’s new book “Haddock” —@camdenbauchner
  
• We’ve got titles from: Ernest Swimmingway, F. Scott Fishgerald, Salmon Rushdie, Jane Thawsten, Stephen StinKing, Kiese Filetmon, Jawson Reynolds, Oscar Wildcaught, George Orwhale, Edgar Allen Porpoise, William Flake, Cormackerel McCarthy, Leon Troutsky, Hisham Watar, Ocean Vuong, Haruki Shamurakami, TaGari Jones, John Fisham, Frank Carpfka, Roald Barracudahl … I need to stop. –—@italicbookmarks

And the CAPTION CONTEST WINNER is

"Available in hardcover, paperback, and fillet." —@lynzely