Tuesdays with Jeffrey (My Father Who Is Half-Intentionally Deaf)

(discussing dinner)

Me: I'm making cod fillets.

Dad: Hodge fillets?

Me: What? What would hodge fillets even be? Or mean?

Dad: Say it again.

Me: Cod fillets.

Dad: Hadji? The character on Jonny Quest?

Me: (having lost all composure and am in the middle of cackling laughter) What?!

Dad: Yeah, he was the Indian character on Jonny Quest. He wore a turban.

Me: Well, I am certainly not eating fillets made out of a Jonny Quest character.