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I'm in the UK. I don't think they use cod or anything like that. They just call it battered fish because it's not cod or haddock.

• dazc 8y ago
  With some of the better examples you have the choice of one or either. In less good establishments it tends to be just 'fish' though.
  • JoeAltmaier 8y ago
    Are you sure? Here in the US they've given up naming fish, because the supply chain has diluted everything with trash whitefish, which they re-branded 'tilapia' to make it sound like its a thing. No flavor at all. The local restaurant chain relabeled their 'fried catfish' as 'fried whitefish' or something. Asked why they changed their fish. They said "We didn't change the fish; we just changed the menu". Presumably because it wasn't catfish all along.
  • jwdunne 8y ago
    I'll have to visit my hometown. Apparently there's now a chippy that does just that. Choice of cod, haddock and plaice if I recall. Some old friends rave about it.