You’ve probably already heard about the Gorton’s fish fillet recall prompted by a Pennsylvanian woman’s discovery of pills in her crunchy-battered fish fillets. What you may not know, however, is that I have 19 boxes of these things in my freezer… the same 19 boxes I bought last July.

See, back then my husband was out of town for a month and I got it into my head that I’d eat nothing but fish and steamed veggies while he was gone. As luck would have it, our grocery store had a 2-for-1 sale on Gorton’s fish the first day he was gone so I bought 20 boxes and figured I was set for lunch and dinner for the next 30 days.

As luck would also have it, I discovered midway through the very first box that I don’t like Gorton’s crunchy battered fish fillets. In fact, I’ve since discovered, I don’t like eating fish more than once a week unless it’s sushi. (I could eat that stuff daily and still never grow tired of it.) So I moved the remaining 19 boxes to my downstairs freezer and promptly forgot all about them.

When I read the report about the recall the first thing that went through my mind was that I had finally found a way to get my money back on the darned things. Unfortunately, I’m not in the five states affected by the recall, which means I’m out of luck. Also unfortunate — as I’ve since discovered — my fillets don’t have any pills shoved into them.

Man, I never catch a break!

UPDATE 03.16.2008 – Turns out those pills in the Gorton’s fish were herbal supplements, although no one knows how they got there.